Which is the best software to build a web site with.

Xsitepro 2 _ Favorite

Wordpress make nice sites

All others seem to distract me from creating content by have a larger learning cure ie Expression Web

It depends on the type of site you are trying to build.
Dreamweaver and Wordpress are the two I would recommend the most but again, it depends on what your needs are.

What do you mean "launch it to my site"?

wordpress is really popular, as i use it for my sites. Its farely easy to install, and you can find a ton of free templates online

You could also use Bebiz. It's great for beginners, has tons of templates, tips on how to get traffic to your site and a built in keyword research tool. I used it to build my first site and am still making money off it.

What sort of business model are you using? Your own product or other peoples product? Site build it has a simple web builder and so does wealthly affiliate- Good luck in your search - Remember to build your database !!!

I have used site build it. I love it because they have all the tools in one place and a step by step guide on how to build a profitable business. As a newbie, I was so glad that I found it. But it all depends on what kind of site you want to build. Site build it is mainly about content rich sites

Is there any freeware option available to achieve this goal?

For Flash Based Website - A4DeskPro Flash Website Builder
For Blogging - Wordpress
For HTML & others - Dreamweaver , Kompozer & WYSIWYG Web Builder

use wordpress, and host your site with hostgator, they provide you with wordpress for your site, or an unlimited number of sites

I would like to return the favor to all of you who have contributed to my learning curve, but at this time, I do not know what I have of value that I could offer. I am not a techno diva, merely a caterer relocating to Arizona.

I am a decent writer by no means a professional, however it is an offer that I am willing to make to the first ten of you that have contributed to my learning curve and would like to take advantage of the offer send me what you have and I will make the necessary changes at no charge.

It depends on the type of site you are trying to build, as jklein wrote.

But in general, I would recommend Wordpress.

I am very new to the tech side of IM, I used Webstarts to build and host a site. These are very easy cut and paste templates for us newbies however, since no one is talking about them I am guessing there is a big down side?
Thanks
David

If you are building a portfolio, I suggest wordpress.
If you want just plain HTML for sales letters or landing pages then Dreamweaver is my choice plus Adobe photoshop for the design.
If you want to build thousands of sites then I have one

Is Dreamweaver any good for beginners? I hear it's WYSIWYG, so I should be alright, yes? My html is limited, and don't even get me started with PHP, jscript, etc. Thx!

Hi Lady,

I wrote a page on this very topic:
Build A Website

In all, it's a combination of Xsitepro and Wordpress, with a few tweaks.

Hope it's of help.

Cheers
Roy

I grew up using advanced programs, but I'd recommend XSite Pro if your just getting started out, and then outsource once you get the funds.

Make sure you learn some basic html though, so you can edit the outsourcing for little changes you want.

xsite pro_2 def.

1. wordpress

2. xsitepro

choose by which one you feel will suite you the best

I use NVU to my landing and squeeze pages and wordpress to my sites.
But lately I changed my hosting provider to Vodahost and has a site builder software called bluevoda. Is a wysiwyg tool with lot of options. You can create your site and upload it direct to your server no need for ftp programs.
check it at bluevoda.com (not affiliate link)

I like page breeze. It is free and easy to use.
Dreamweaver is great too.

I would strongly suggest you for WordPress...

Wordpress offers a good balance between power and flexibility. If you want to really jumpstart your sites and SEO, the Thesis theme is awesome. There is a modest charge for it but it is well worthwhile, especially if you are going to build a number of sites or, perhaps, get into the site building business!

Definitely Wordpress for quick SEO affiliate sites, it's free and easy to install from cPanel. Also gives you thousands of free design templates to choose from.

Dreamweaver for more custom, code-intensive, authoritative type sites.

Notebook?? are you kidding?? I don't think the op wants a degree in web designing.

Anyways back to the question, wordpress all the way. For simplicity, very customizable, yet high quality sites you can do with it. Very SEO easy with google.

I tried a number of the free options out there.

I found that Kompozer and others were a struggle. I got reasonable results with Trellian, but the wysiwyg was driving me nuts! Not perfect to say the least.

I was pulling my hair out until I discovered Xara Web Designer, I was amazed.

For $49 you can't beat it. The learning curve is almost non-existent and the wysiwyg appears to be flawless so far.

One word of caution, if you plan to import existing html pages you're out of luck. Xara is not an html editor. When you design pages it uses it's own format and then converts to html when you publish.

From what the validators tell me, Xara produces very clean html and ftp is integrated. I'm new at this and can't believe how easy they make it.

I highly recommend Xara. Best 49 bucks I've ever spent.

Find it at xara.com/us/

Wordpress, in addition to having a backend that you can learn relatively easily, has built in RSS, which means every time you create a new page or post, it gets sent to "ping servers" that spread the word to the search engines about your new content.

Wordpress itself has come a long way and themes are now available for just about everything. You can build sales pages, review sites, membership sites, ecommerce sites and just about any type of site you want with Wordpress much easier and more quickly than HTML. Also with Wordpress if you decide you want a makeover, it doesn't require recoding the entire site as it does with HTML.

I love Wordpress because of the numerous free and paid plugins that allow you to easily add additional functionality without installing scripts that are normally required with HTML.

Flash sites cannot be indexed by search engines. The engines can't read the code. So, unless you don't care about search engine traffic and are depending upon an entirely different form of traffic, you really don't want to create a flash site. Having a portion of a page in flash is OK, but I still tend to avoid it. Flash videos are fine but make sure you put enough text and keywords on your pages that the engines know what the page is about.

There are couple of really good Wordpress training programs online as well. I suggest you start with one of those. I also subscribe to a Wordpress Tip of the Day site that's very helpful too.

Hello,
If you are a noob, I recommend using XSitePro, it gives you all you need.
If you want a more "professional" software try DreamWeaver by Adobe (Macromedia).

OR of course, you can rely on good old Microsoft Word You can save anything you make in Word as HTML.

Good luck