Good free web design application

[Nicolas]

So I am the project lead along with a friend of mine of a school project and we are building a website, we both have a somewhat amateur understanding of HTML and JS, ofc we are not alone in this, but we are looking for a good tool for this, the one that has interested us the most is kompozer, but it's kinda old so idk how it's going to work, so what do you guys suggest? stick with kompozer or do you have a better suggestion?

[jscho]

I build my websites with Notepad++.

Sooo, yeah I dunno  I guess Kompozer is good to stick with.

[Nicolas]

I build my websites with Notepad++.

Sooo, yeah I dunno  I guess Kompozer is good to stick with.

I would do that, but this is the first website I build so I'd rather have a tool like kompozer, I'm a noob at this I know.

[jscho]

I would do that, but this is the first website I build so I'd rather have a tool like kompozer, I'm a noob at this I know.

 

My first website was built with NP It takes a lot of trial and error. Change something, save and F5 the broswer constantly. Took a while, but you learn pretty quickly. CSS too

[Intervalence]

I'd say dreamweaver but, you know, not free. I thought CS3 was now free, but a quick google search didn't really find anything so... Stick with notepad ++? 

[AlwaysFSX]

There's an easy to use application for website building bundled with Windows called Notepad.

[fringie]

Probably overkill but Umbraco (https://umbraco.com/) might be worth taking a little look at. 

[Jonny]

http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/

 

This is a very easy website builder no HTML knowledge need to create websites

 

I started with this then moved to free templates and edited with notepad++. After that I started to make my own templates with CSS

[Trader]

mb look into 'html kit', pretty basic

[TheYoungEnthusiast]

Aptana Studio 3 is the best in my opinion. Fantastic editor with support for tons of file types and even has built in FTP if/when you need it

[loganryan99]

Use Brackets. It's an editor that does helpful things and makes you code faster without holding your hand or making you reliant on it. If you use something like a full IDE it'll be harder to code without it.

 

http://brackets.io

[spexiono]

You could also look into using a CSS framework to give you a good start to your website, then continue with a text/WYSIWYG editor. although this might be overkill depending on what you want the site to do. Just an idea.

[leodaniel]

So I am the project lead along with a friend of mine of a school project and we are building a website, we both have a somewhat amateur understanding of HTML and JS, ofc we are not alone in this, but we are looking for a good tool for this, the one that has interested us the most is kompozer, but it's kinda old so idk how it's going to work, so what do you guys suggest? stick with kompozer or do you have a better suggestion?

I would suggest you Coda 2, I know it's not free but I think anyone can afford 20 bucks

You need to know that this is a code editor, so no WYSIWYG. And I think you should use code

[LukeTim]

I'd say dreamweaver but, you know, not free. I thought CS3 was now free, but a quick google search didn't really find anything so... Stick with notepad ++? 

That's CS2, and it is free to download for certain customers, not just anybody. I may be remembering incorrectly but I did try to get it once...

 

I second Brackets as a text editor. Recently moved to it from Notepad++ and it's great.

But this all depends upon what sort of website you want to build. Do you want it to be static or dynamic? Is it a webapp?

You might like to consider building a website based on a premade CMS like Wordpress or Joomla if you don't need to get too into the details of coding.

What is the aim of the project? What class is it in? Are you supposed to be learning about the actual code or just Web Design alone?

[Intervalence]

That's CS2, and it is free to download for certain customers, not just anybody. I may be remembering incorrectly but I did try to get it once...

Thanks for clearing the confusion, I only recently upgraded to CS6 and can't remember which one was the one I used to use 

[Nicolas]

That's CS2, and it is free to download for certain customers, not just anybody. I may be remembering incorrectly but I did try to get it once...

 

I second Brackets as a text editor. Recently moved to it from Notepad++ and it's great.

But this all depends upon what sort of website you want to build. Do you want it to be static or dynamic? Is it a webapp?

You might like to consider building a website based on a premade CMS like Wordpress or Joomla if you don't need to get too into the details of coding.

What is the aim of the project? What class is it in? Are you supposed to be learning about the actual code or just Web Design alone?

It's not really homework it's kind of a project my class and I decided to do, it will be sort of like a news source.

 

This came up because we were just chatting and we started talking about this and how much money you can make if you make a popular website and put ads on it and stuff so we started talking and in the end we were all like aah let's do this we won't lose anything. Soo yeeah

[LukeTim]

It's not really homework it's kind of a project my class and I decided to do, it will be sort of like a news source.

 

This came up because we were just chatting and we started talking about this and how much money you can make if you make a popular website and put ads on it and stuff so we started talking and in the end we were all like aah let's do this we won't lose anything. Soo yeeah

Okay. In what way would it be a news source? If you're posting your own Articles, Wordpress is ideal... if you want to sort of aggregate the news like Google News does, you're not going to get what you want with any web site builder; you would likely have to code it yourselves... There are some things you just can't do without writing your own software.

[Paralectic]

I'm using Visual Studio myself.