Free web authoring software?

not everybody is a full time web developer. dreamweaver makes us easier to build whatever websites we desire. did u know you can handcode as well using DW?. If you were to do all using handcode, i will say it's unnecessary. i'm not saying it because i'm using it. if you still really can't understand technology advancement then it's very hard. 5 or 10 years from now. you can't be handcoding all your life. It must be used correctly. it is a tool that helps to build better websites.Be it microsoft or DW . they surely do help my business alot. and have my salute

I don't know about that - I'll admit programs like Dreamweaver (which I myself use) and it's ilk help ease and speed up development, but the ability to hand-code is still extremely important.

Keep in mind - programs like Dreamweaver were themselves coded, so in the end the ability to code always factors in. You need not start off hand coding (as mentioned many times already in this thread), but if you want to get really serious, you'll need to pick it up eventually.


Another free authoring tool I didn't think of before: Amaya. It takes a bit of getting used to, and isn't the most popular tool around, but it is free, and it's got the W3C backing it - that's gotta count for something.

EDIT: Just fixed a few grammar issues.

It has been quite a while since my last post here in Ozzu. It is good to be back.

Anyway, I'm currently using Webuilder from Blumental Software. They have a neat list of CSS property and values so that you don't have to memorize the codes although you still need to know what the codes do. and this is not WYSIWYG editor, hand-coding skills are required!.

Bryce, hot bramble...?. Ok, i agreed with that . Just wanna make some oppinions posted to ensure not many will misunderstand adobe products. I'm not trying to go against you, .

There are 3 designing modes we can use basically, -
1. design view
2. code view
3.split view

of course i discourage anyone who does everything in design view ,which in the end they'll have to double their effort when it comes to coding. In code view, it's similar to when we write codes plainly - in any plain text editor. Split is very helpful when we have other "ajax" - spry thing going on, it help to reduce alot of work and the same time we can learn from the code wiew/split. Some other good feature will be the SQL part when we bind it any between 1 table into our site .html / .php / .asp / coldfusion we can still create pretty much on our own the SQL-part.
Thanks for the recommendation will definitely look into that !.