I’m creating a website for my boss’s real estate business as a favor. I’ve already bought hosting and created a domain for his site from BlueHost. I need Web Design Software, preferably a free download, that isn’t all too difficult to understand. This is all new to me.
Please help… Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Also, I’ve downloaded FileZilla as my FTP… Idk if the software has to be compatible with this program.
Wow! Great information!!! Thank you to everyone who answered!
Ugh, don’t use Dreamweaver, ever. It’s huge, bloated, and unnecessary.
Anything worth doing is worth doing right. You’ll go a lot further if you take the time to learn HTML and CSS the right way: by doing it yourself. Don’t ever rely on a WYSIWYG to do it for you. You’re just making more work for yourself in the long run.
Having said that, everything you need to design and develop a site can be done with all free tools, and yes, Filezilla is a nice free FTP client that you can use to upload your files to the web host.
Apart from that, you’ll just need a decent text editor. If you’re using windows (and I am assuming you are), use Notepad++. No, I didn’t say Notepad, I said Notepad++ (link in the source section below.) 
I’ve also included some more links to some free apps that you can use to develop sites and learn the basics.
I’ll update this post with maybe some more links in the future, but this should be enough to get you started for now.
Good luck!
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I suggest you use Adobe’s Dreamweaver if you’re a starter in the Web Design world. It gives you a free space to add any image, video, texts, and any other stuff needed just like a normal website would need. If you are more advanced and sophisticated later on. You should start off on a clean slate with Freewebs or so (if you know basic HTML). Then you can build up from there. But you should definitely start off with Dreamweaver as a start, it will help you.
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Dreamweaver.
Visage is a douchebag.
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It’s that simple.
Ugh, don’t use Dreamweaver, ever. It’s huge, bloated, and unnecessary.
Anything worth doing is worth doing right. You’ll go a lot further if you take the time to learn HTML and CSS the right way: by doing it yourself. Don’t ever rely on a WYSIWYG to do it for you. You’re just making more work for yourself in the long run.
Having said that, everything you need to design and develop a site can be done with all free tools, and yes, Filezilla is a nice free FTP client that you can use to upload your files to the web host.
Apart from that, you’ll just need a decent text editor. If you’re using windows (and I am assuming you are), use Notepad++. No, I didn’t say Notepad, I said Notepad++ (link in the source section below.)
I’ve also included some more links to some free apps that you can use to develop sites and learn the basics.
I’ll update this post with maybe some more links in the future, but this should be enough to get you started for now.
Good luck!
References :
http://wsc.opera.com/
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
http://www.brainjar.com/
http://www.htmldog.com/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/
I highly recommend you read through ALL of those, especially Opera’s WSC. It’s quite good.
Links to other software (all 100% free):
Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GIMP (for doing artwork): http://gimp.org/
Inkscape (for doing vector artwork): http://inkscape.org/
As stated, Dreamweaver is NOT the do-all, be-all program and is a resource hog. Too many FREE programs are just as good, lot easier to use and did I mention Free? lol
FileZilla is a good FTP program. I’ve used it for years. It’s a stand alone program and can be kept open when uploading files. Just be sure to refresh (F5) the local directory if you have/are editing files and uploading in real time.
Web Editors (Many Free):
WYSIWYG Editor List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors#WYSIWYG_editors
Basic text editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors#Basic_text_editors
Comparison of HTML editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors
HTML Editor Reviews – http://www.wdvl.com/Reviews/HTML/
FileZilla FTP Tutorial – How to Upload Your Site with FileZilla
In this tutorial you learn how to upload your website using FileZilla, the popular free FTP application. FileZilla is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Read the full article here:
http://www.elated.com/articles/filezilla-tutorial/
Ron
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BlueHost User.