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    Looking for a website designer for beginners, any recommendations?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by comrade_commissar7, May 25, 2010.

  1. comrade_commissar7

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    Similar to yesterday's giveawayoftheday (Ultima Website), I am planning to purchase a personal website creator that is quick and easy to use without the hassle of encoding hefty html tags. In short, I would just have to click and drag pictures, movies, and songs to the website designer and it will immediately flash online like a professional web designer. Such software or application will allow me to design my website in WYSIWYG mode since my knowledge about HTML coding or any other website developing skills is very limited or superficial considering it's not my expertise. What are your recommendations? Thanks a lot in advance :)
     
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    Web Easy Professional, I've used that for a little bit, and would recommend it for beginners.

    EDIT: Or even Antenna Web Studio, or Dreamweaver, or Serif Webplus.
     
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    I second Antenna Web Studio. Been using it for years.
     
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    It seems that Antenna Web Studio is a good choice. Could you kindly tell me the required specs for those apps that you mentioned? Thanks :)

    -Which of those have a good number of templates to choose from? And, a GUI very friendly for novices like me :)
     
    comrade_commissar7, May 26, 2010
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    I know this is odd, but I cannot seem to find the req's for Antenna :confused:
    Oh well, I ran it great on a P4 2.8ghz with 512MB Ram.

    I no longer recommend Web Easy Professional, I just don't like it anymore. Antenna is the way to go, the one with the best templates and a friendly GUI would have to be Serif WebPlus. WebPlus includes a ton of templates.
     
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    If my notebook has no dedicated video card, like ATI or Nvidia, will those recommendations of yours still work smoothly? :)
     
    comrade_commissar7, May 29, 2010
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    Just do the trial. I been using it since 56k speed on a P3 128mb ram days. Ofcourse Antenna got updated plently, but I never known it to be a memory hog.
     
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    yes no problem whatsoever
     
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    Having no dedicated video card is not terribly important for Web Design, even though alot of the one's recommended are drag and drop. An integrated one should do just fine, I ran Dreamweaver like a dream on the same system said above. Out of all the one's recommended, I would seriously consider Serif WebPlus, jump on YouTube and check out some tutorials etc to see if it's what you like.
     
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