Website Building Tools
There are a variety of different ways to publish a website online. Some methods are more for beginners, while others are for trained and experienced web developers and designers. So choose the web building tool that's best for your needs based on your experience level. If you are a "newbie" use the easy website builders and then work your way up to the tools that web experts use.
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Free Web Building Tools
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Geocities.com, Webs.com and most hosting companies offer customers free, easy to use web building tools to use when building their sites (see Resources).
Notepad
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Most experienced HTML web designers start with a blank Notepad or Word file when they are building a website.
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HTML Editor
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Many hosting companies offer more advanced web developers and designers the ability to insert HTML directly into an HTML editor to build a site.
Flash
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Flash is a popular website building tool that presents the visitor with an animated "movie-like" image when they visit the page. Links can be built directly into the flash movie.
Microsoft Word as a Website Building Tool
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If you have created a document in Microsoft Word, you can build a website that looks exactly like your formatted document by simply "saving as HTML." The Word program saves your formatting as HTML code automatically.
Dreamweaver
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Adobe Dreamweaver is a program that you can buy to help you build professional, sleek websites. It is a solid program for both novices and experts.
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