What's a good program for designing your own professional looking websites?

I have knowledge of basic HTML thats all, and I haven%26#039;t figured out on a domain host yet, but I would like to design the site myself and make it look professional.....

What%26#039;s a good program for designing your own professional looking websites?

Dreamweaver

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What%26#039;s a good program for designing your own professional looking websites?

dreamweaver..but now and days flash is prefered.

Other Replys:For starters, you can download and try NVU from http://www.nvu.com/index.php

It allows WYSIWYG editing of pages, it is quite user friendly and free.

For design ideas, you may wish to search on web site templates to get some ideas.

eg.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/...

There are quite alot of free templates site if you do some Googling.

Hope it helps! :)

- Jym -

http://jymster.org/wordpress

Other Replys:In the realm of web design and development, there are more than a few options and alternatives to use.

First, on the one hand, if you want your website to be ready with less effort and you want it to be dynamic in the same time, you may go for a CMS (Content Management System) like 鈥淛oomla!鈥?br>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla

On the other hand, for Windows/Mac OS, if you prefer to start off on your own, you鈥檝e got to decide on how much money you may want to spend on such software.

In my humble opinion, 鈥淎dobe Dreamweaver鈥?(formerly 鈥淢acromedia DreamWeaver鈥? is bar far the most thorough and worthwhile WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web development tool that you might want to invest on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dream...

It鈥檚 got everything ready in one place and is very well integrated with some of other useful software for web design (like Adobe Photoshop)

And on Linux, you might want to give Amaya a try (which is open source):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_%28we...

All in all, if still in doubt, here鈥檚 a neat comparison chart of WYSIWYG HTML editors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...

Other Replys:The suggested software in other answers will do a good job, but to get really proffesional you need to learn the html, along with maybe php or asp for more advanced functionality and then edit the generated pages manually. Any design software has limits in it%26#039;s capabilities.

Other Replys:You haven%26#039;t said if you want to pay for the program, so here are a few options. Jym%26#039;s suggestion about the free Nvu is a good one however I found it a bit sluggish compared to the professional stuff. It is a nice program however. On the other hand, you could have a fairly good site prepared professionally for the price of Dreamweaver. If you%26#039;re not the least bit interested in exhausting yourself by learning PHP or Html, or if you don%26#039;t need a database driven portal (CMS) like Joomla, have a look at programs that let you create almost anything you want and convert it to HTML for you. I use a program called WYSIWYG Web Builder that costs around $40. It%26#039;s a WYSIWYG drag %26amp; drop program with hundreds of very professional business templates. http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/

The developer answers forum questions within hours and he%26#039;s constantly improving the program. Although my sites are nowhere near what the program is capable of, they will give you some idea of its ability. The first one was built during the 30 day trial period. http://www.yacht-valhalla.com and the second from one of the templates: http://www.yacht-valhalla.com/amswers

Other Replys:Webdesign- http://Userstyle.org/

webdesign software- http://hapycog.com/

web applications- http://norgana.org/