Page 1 of Easy to use web site editor - recommendations?

Hi all - those who know what I do may wonder why I`m asking this (I build websites - but I`m a hand coding type of guy!!).
I need an easy to use web building package for a couple of sites I`m doing for friends, so they can do the updating etc themselves. It should be simple to add photos etc, and perhaps use templates for new pages. And (most importantly), it should be cheap.

Any suggestions?

Micro$oft Frontpage 2002 - fairly cheap, very easy to use if proficient in Word, and has a bit of an HTML side for the intermediate range.

Yeah, I would 2nd Richard on FrontPage, really easy to use even for the most basic of computer users.

Frontpage Express comes as standard with WinXP etc nowadays so they`ve probably already got that, tis decent enough for your basic web editing etc. If you`re going to be doing anything more complicated though then I`d suggest Dreamweaver over Frontpage anyday, not as simple to get used to but I`ve found it to be much better once you familiarise yourself with it.

I`ve always had an aversion to Frontpage because of the crap it dumps into the code, but I guess it doesn`t really matter as they won`t be handcutting the code afterwards. I`ll have a play....

When Mrs Dave gets back from her business trip I`ll ask her what she used. Meanwhile the bathroom suite I have to put in during half term next week is propped in front of my computer, which is why I`ve been using her machine/login all week (just in case anyone was wondering) :-)

dave

The newer versions of Frontpage seem to be getting better about the code they generate. I used to have the same worries, but it was forced on me where I used to work, and the code it produced wasnt any where near as bad as I worried it might be.

Tom

Notepad

Frontpage produces awful messy code, do not use it.

And make sure your site validates!

http://validator.w3.org

Well, yes, that`s just the reason I use Visual InterDev as a tarty version of Notepad, but for a couple of simple sites that someone else is going to look after, and never delve into the HTML, I think a WYSYWIG of some sort is needed.

Frontpage is pure evil. It produces s*** HTML code, that works ok with IE browsers (no suprise there), but generally looks crap in others.

Best bet? Spend a couple of hours learning HTML, CSS-2 and so on (it`s not difficult at all) and use Vi. Or Notepad if you use windozzze.

This item was edited on Thursday, 13th February 2003, 12:57