ahammond1023 Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 I had a friend send me an email that reads this: "My website crashed…..I was using the oldest Front Page and my site just got too large and imploded! I am wondering what software you are using? I would prefer to not use code at all….and have downloaded a program called Xara Web Designer 6. I have started a site with it….but don’t want to continue with it if I am going to have problems with my big website with the many pages and layers of pages. I downloaded a free trial of the Microsoft Expressions but that is ALL code so definitely not for me! I originally skipped over Adobe Dreamweaver as it is expensive at $399 but I am taking a second look. I want to expand on having imbedded video’s and photo galleries. Investigating Dreamweaver further there is still a lot of coding but some WYSIWYG features. I can learn the coding but would prefer not as it so time intensive. I have also downloaded another free trial of a WYSIWYG software called Web Studio 5 it is higher priced but I haven’t done much with it as it is very limited on what video can be embedded. I would appreciate any suggestions." Do any of y'all have any suggestions for the best WYSIWYG editors out there? Or is Dreamweaver king? Wasn't sure since I'm very new to this. I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you so much in advance.... Angie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 My opinion on this is that Dreamweaver is still king. However, I have found that WYSIWYG editors tend to be very limiting, since you are relying entirely on a machine to be able to figure out what you want the website to look like/act like. If you run into errors (the site displaying differently in different browsers, functionality not working, etc.) it is extremely useful (I would argue it's essential) to be able to understand and work with the code itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahammond1023 Posted December 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Oh, I haven't even been doing this long and can say that I totally agree with you on the necessity of knowing some code. Also, so that y'all know....this is a friend that is not a designer, but just someone who built their own website for their horse business. Her site actually looked really good too. She may know a little code just from playing with her site over the years but nothing major. Thank you for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtual Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 (edited) I would suggest to your friend that she finds a horse related template in Wordpress, then she won't have to deal with any code at all. She can add images, pages, text into it through the dashboard. If she knows a little code, she can probably tweak the theme and put her own images in. Edited December 27, 2010 by virtual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahammond1023 Posted December 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Thanks Virtual....I will mention that to her. I have never even looked at Wordpress. I'll have to check it out also. Now that school is over, I have to put forth some effort to learn all these other things. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cools4u Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 (edited) DreamWeaver is best WYSIWYG editor... it is user friendly to create static and even dynamic websites for both experienced and freshers... you can also use Microsoft Visual Studio for creating Dynamic websites, it is also a good WYSIWYG editor only need some guidance for freshers... Edited January 17, 2011 by Andrea Link Deleted - No Spam Please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahammond1023 Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 DreamWeaver is best WYSIWYG editor... it is user friendly to create static and even dynamic websites for both experienced and freshers... you can also use Microsoft Visual Studio for creating Dynamic websites, it is also a good WYSIWYG editor only need some guidance for freshers... Thank you very much for the reply. I have never even tried to use Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG features so don't know it's capabilities. I will let her know. She said she downloaded the trial version of it but talked more about the coding features of it and did not want to learn. Of course, cost is a huge issue for her in that she only needs to build her own site. It's not for building for others. She said if she had to, then she would but was looking for something a little easier on the pocketbook. LOL I will let her know. Is there a book out there that teaches the WYSIWYG side of Dreamweaver? I'll also let her know about Visual Studio. Thanks again. Angie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 I agree with virtual - for someone not interested in learning webdesign who just wants to maintain and update content on an existing site, Wordpress is an excellent option. It's free, and the way it works, there is almost no chance that the 'user' messes up the existing layout, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhishekcis Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 (edited) Hi Deamweaver is a advanced WYSIWYG editor. Its good for web design. Edited February 16, 2011 by Andrea Links Deleted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahammond1023 Posted February 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 I'm sorry that I missed your reply Andrea. I had told her about Wordpress and I know she was going to check that out again. I'm honestly not even sure if she got her site up again by now. I'll have to go look. Thanks for the reply. Abhishek - She had tried Dreamweaver because that's the one I told her that I used but she said there was too much code to learn. She said she didn't have time to learn all that. Anyway, thanks for the reply. I will have to go check out her site to see if it's back up now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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