Best freeware software for making WWW sites

[deejay.2001]

hi
can you please recommend some freeware soft to build www sites....
some good easy for intermediate user..thanks

[Supreme2k]

I would say notepad if you are really intermediate.

If you more of a beginner and need a GUI, go with something like coffecup

[thecoalman]

Why would you want to use notepad over coffeecup or any text editor made for code?

Notepad is fine for simple quick edits but the tools available in any good text editor is going to trump it. The highlighting alone is reason enough to use them.

Other than coffeecup there is Notepad++ ...

[drjtech]

Personally I use UltraEdit. It's a text editor with optimizations for writing code, including HTML code.

-drjtech

[Supreme2k]

Why would you want to use notepad over coffeecup or any text editor made for code?

Because it's there already? If you're a decent coder, notepad if good enough? "Best" is very subjective? Take your pick.


Besides, I already mentioned (and linked) coffeecup.

[thecoalman]

Well like I said the highlighting is worth the price of admission alone if anything. I rarely use the other features excepy maybe quick insertion for links and images and a few other major tags. Even if you're debugging errors you have the line numbers at a glance. For that matter you can pick errors up because the highlighting will break. Guess to each his own.

[deejay.2001]

thanks for replies, i did not mean text coding editors...i mean simple drag and drop making website tool

any freewares available like this

[thecoalman]

Coffeecup has a WYSIWYG option, not sure how well it works because I don't use it. If you look at the top of my screenshot you'll see the tab named "code editor". there's two additional tabs that I don't use so I have them removed in options. One is for a preview and the other is for the WYSIWYG option. You can switch between the three modes by clicking the tab.

Just to add I downloaded the free version once and frankly I don't think there is much difference between it and the registered version. Generally free versions have some major feature missing or they are really hobbled but I really couldn't find anything missing.