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Easy To Use Free Online Web Design Software For Creating A Web Site
Do you want to design a web site for your home business but don't know where to start? You can use web editors, web site builders and web site templates to design your own web site quickly and inexpensively.
To design your first web site, you may want to use a WYSIWYG web editor or site builder. Web editors and site builders help you quickly create simple web sites without the need to know HTML programming and without having to buy expensive web design software.
A WYSIWYG editor uses a "What You See Is What You Get" interface. You can see what your page will look like. WYSIWYG editors are easy to use and they may be a good option if you want to make a small, simple web site quickly and easily. But even when using a web editor, it helps to learn the basics of HTML to solve some design problems and make changes.
Some of the good free WYSIWYG web editors include KompoZer, HTML-Kit, SeaMonkey Composer (Mozilla), Amaya and Trellian.
Paid editors will give you more powerful features. Dreamweaver is the most popular professional web editor today but has a steep learning curve. FrontPage used to be popular for non-professional users. However, it is incompatible with other programs, is not receiving any new updates, and will cause problems if you need help from a professional designer in the future.
Site Builders help you design your site from pre-packaged templates. Sometimes they provide a WYSIWYG interface to change elements from the templates. You can upload the site easily without the need of an FTP program to upload your pages. Site builders often include a library with free images, templates, backgrounds and web site headers. And you can upload your own images.
Using a site builder is an easy way to get your first web site up fast. But free site builders usually have restrictions such as a limited amount of pages and customization of your pages is limited.
Free web site builders include 1&1 Website Builder, Office Live Small Business, Site2you and website Wizard.
Many hosting companies offer template-based site builders and wizards that will help set up your web pages. Wizards make it easy to create web sites easily through point and click design. Typically, they work like this: You can choose a layout from their selection of web site templates. You choose graphics, fonts, text color and the style of your navigation buttons. You can edit your content. You can often add features like a counter, feedback form and guest book.
But it might be difficult to make changes when using template-based site builders and wizards. When using templates and site builders provided by your hosting company, you probably won't be able to move your pages and they won't work properly when switching providers.
If you want to design your own web site, try some of the options above. But if you don't have the time or know-how to build your own Web site, consider hiring a professional web designer so you can focus on running your business instead of dealing with the many technical issues involved in web design.
About the Author Leva Duell designs profitable web sites based on proven marketing strategies. Visit http://www.fivestarwebdesign.com/ebook.html and get a FREE ebook, Inside Secrets to Developing a Profitable Web Site, providing powerful, non-techie web design and marketing strategies to increase your online profits.
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