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AlunD
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Folks
I've had the same request from 2 mates in the last week. They want to do their own web sites / clubs sites.
Looking for recommendations for free / cheap easy to use web page editing tools.
Thoughts?
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finlay666
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cheap/free
Learn html/css
It's really not that difficult, and better to get a professional as even people who think they have good designs... very rarely do (just had a client who designed their own site enquire why they have 0 conversion atm)
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AlunD
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Cheers Fin and the question still stands 
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Linux_User
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AlunD
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sweet thanks. 
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big_D
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I use Notepad++ for web design. I tried Adobe Dreamweaver, but it was a nightmare, compared to writing the code myself. I'd probably spend 2/3 of my time going back in source mode and fine tuning the code that Dreamweaver would generate. And it was better than most of the tools I'd tried. Bluefish has a fairly good reputation, although, like Dreamweaver, I tried it, then swapped back to Notepad++...
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AlunD
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Personally I love Dreamweaver and Expressions but not for these guys thy need something real easy and basic.
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KRKux
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Notepad++ is the easiest way to start or some Eclipse/Netbeans free IDE'ing so they don't have to know syntax
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tombolt
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I use textwrangler, but komposer looks good if you're into wysiwyg.
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paulzolo
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Dreamweaver treats its code base as a form of palimpsest - it just re-writes and re-writes the code. You get artefacts and all kinds of junk. It's not an HTML generator at all - it's a text editor with a clever (ish) interface on top. I prefer to use Freeway for website work, but second on my list is Coda.
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tombolt
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Coda's cool, but I have it with a browser and textwrangler. I love the idea of it, but it doesn't strike me as anything you couldn't achieve without opening the different apps yourself.
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