What is best Free Software to Create Web Pages?

What do you think is best Free Software to create web pages? All suggestions welcome.

 

You need a good editor. There are a bunch out there. Emacs and Vim are the best, but may be more powerful than you need or are willing to learn.

For a graphics editor, get the GIMP. Photo$hop does print stuff better, but GIMP is its equal for web graphics.

You should also install ImageMagick for all its graphics utilities. (All graphics on my own site have been made with ImageMagick or Inkscape.)

Inkscape should be your choice for vector graphics. It is probably a bit superior to the commercial products such as Illustrator, or Corel Draw, etc..

Don't forget your development server. Go with Apache2 plus MySQL and PHP.

Various utilities are all available free; ssh, ftp (Firefox's FireFTP is a very nice addon application.), wget (this is a spider, among other things. It can check that every link on your site is working, e.g..), scp, etc.

Browsers from the four majors.

I may have forgot something, but all suggestions are best of breed and free.

cheers,

gary

 

Joomla, Wordpress, Notepad ++

 

Hello

I think Dreamweaver.It is mostly used.

Regards
GOnline

 

I think the best is dreamweaver.... but if you ask me you can create it online only..

 

NVU is quite good

 

@ Kerosene

Design and graphics > GIMP or PhotoFiltre (no layers)
Coding > PSPad
And XAMPP to build/test it all locally.

I use PSPad on my EeePC and PortableApps stick. It has coloured syntax highlighting and FTP, which is enough to make me happy.

http://www.gimp.org
http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
http://www.pspad.com/
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Ohh. and FileZilla for FTP - although I've been trying to move over to FireFTP...




Thanks for sharing Kerosene.......this is good stuff I can use!

 

Wordpress I use, provide more and more free plug-in

 

There is no "best software" but I suggest Wordpress, Joomla for beginners and Drupal, Typo3 for advanced users.

 

It seems that when you made this post, I guess you werent very specific or something, because people went from saying to use dreamweaver to wordpress, both which do very different things. If i interpreted correctly, I think you ment more on the dreamweaver side, but I personally dislike dreamweaver, and use: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

 

can i use dream viewer to creat a site map aswell

 

Dreamweaver and Frontpage, but they are not free, and in fact is rather damn expensive.
You can check this page, it lists some freewares, hope it helps
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml

 

Free? (but not opensource...)

You can use Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express
It is free subset version of Visual Studio. forget about ASP.NET stuff. You can use it just for html+css layouting. It is dreamweaver killer!
There are other great free web editor software:
-Aptana : full featured web editor (eclipse based) but lack of wysiwyg.
-NVU or Komposer : nice web editor also, but it seems has't been developed anymore.

 

I have used dreamweaver and it's really good tool for web creation.

 

I prefer notepad++, firebug for developing tools.

 

I like Dreamweaver

 

I think we talk about non commercial software...

 

I think DREAMWEAVER is the best one...........

But, IMAGEMAGICK works really good