Question For Non-Geek Webmasters Only

 I've used front page and hated it. Now I use Dreamweaver. It's pretty intuitive and easy to use.

Dreamweaver, have been using it for years.  I also use Mozilla Sea Monkey sometimes b/c it's free, and ironically renders some of my CSS better than Dreamweaver!  I also run my XHTML and CSS through a validator (http://validator.w3.org/) because Dreamweaver will allow things that don't actually pass validation.

 I use Dreamweaver and it is intuitive but still has a learning curve and can get fiddly at times IM non-techy O

DH just made a nice looking site with this http://www.wix.com/

he has no real website training and he did a nice job with this in a short period of time

 I learned both dreamweaver and frontpage back many years ago. Honestly, the only reason I did not learn dreamweaver better, was because I accidently booked on a mac instead of a pc for the class. I wasn't fluent with mac use at that time, so I struggled to keep up. Everything about dreamweaver was better. I had some knowledge of html, certainly no expert. I haven't done any web work in years though, so my review is clearly not as good as those who are doing it.

Anne if you want to get really do-it-yourself, focus on learning and using CSS and not on HTML.  I am one that learns by trial and error.  I've been learning CSS by using free templates (which already pass validation) and then modifying them to meet my needs.  The more I practice, the more I can manipulate, or start writing the code myself.  There are several sites that have hundreds of decent free CSS templates available.

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 I've been learning CSS by using free templates (which already pass validation) and then modifying them to meet my needs.  The more I practice, the more I can manipulate, or start writing the code myself. 

That is exactly how I learned too.

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