Website Software

I am assuming you don't want to learn more than the very basic html commands and would rather buy some software to do it for you!

I created my first few sites using Microsoft Frontpage, and have since upgraded to use Frontpage 2003. I didn't find it particularly easy to learn, and I still use it at a very basic level. Some of its more complicated features are way beyond me - although to be honest I haven't really had the need to try to conquer them! I do have one great problem with my Frontpage websites: if I want to change the look of one of my sites, I have to change each and every one of my thousands of pages individually. I have done it on my biggest site (nearly 2000 pages) on 3 occasions, and it is tedious, to say the least!

My newer sites (including this one) are created with XSitePro, which makes me smile every time I use it! It has some wonderfully clever features and shortcuts, and is simple enough that my 9 year old daughter built herself a site within minutes - literally - of being sat at the computer in front of XSitePro for the first time. From my point of view its best feature is that I can build a site and at any time change its look, its colors, its texts, its headers - basically, if I get bored, I redecorate! For simple, straightforward sites and for building lots of sites, quickly, I have no hesitation in recommending XSitePro. You can buy the software and download instantly, you get excellent and comprehensive help if you need it as well as some useful tutorials, and you now also get some very good tutorial videos to get you started and building your sites. I have needed to contact the help desk twice since I have owned the software and both times I had prompt and courteous replies.

If you want a website with all the bells and whistles, unusual layouts and online features such as forms and other such gizmos, you should probably go with Frontpage 2003 or Dreamweaver, and put in the time to learn to use them properly. If you want to be up and running quickly, are happy with fairly basic sites, and think you may be building more sites in the future, go with XSitePro.

(By the way, you can buy ready-made "templates" for either software by searching the net. When I started using XSitePro it was new and there wasn't much out there, but it is now very popular with internet marketers and there is much more support out there).