best website design program?

[beeboybee]

any thoughts on the best software to use to make a simple website?
it will be a simple site mostly photos and text.
dont want to spend hours learning dream weaver.
have bought the web name from Reg 123.

any pointers or suggestions to get me started!!!!

 

[VEG]

most web hosting companies have simple web page design programs. There are loads of free ones about as well. There are options on the site you mentioned to design a site.

 

[Brosville]

Google "Weebly" and "Qapacity" and follow your nose...

ps "123" are reasonable for name registration, but their hosting is expensive!

 

[Headnavigator]

Serif WebPlus (from free version to £80 depending on complexity, hosting etc.) very user friendly, but you need to be thick-skinned enough to be able to fend off their continued sales efforts directed at you afterwards. However - in return, their techie people are very accessible by phone and will be competent and helpful. Can't fault the software or web hosting.

 

[ma1308]

Web Easy Professional 8 you can download a 30 day full working demo, and at £40 its worth buying after the 30 days

http://goo.gl/hH7ol

 

[MuswellMetro]

I have use a free/share program called webdwarf works ok for me

 

[beeatshellards]

use one.com I think its free for the 1st year and about £ 10 per year thereafter, I design edit and they webhost for that

 

[alanf]

any thoughts on the best software to use to make a simple website?
it will be a simple site mostly photos and text.

Depends more what you're producing it for than the content; text and pictures are actually all you will see on any web site. If it's a personal record and you don't want a lot of learning, you could do a lot worse than some of the blogging software. Something like Wordpress is well regarded and if you do get into it, will take a lot of customisation.

 

[fatshark]

Of course, if you're using a Mac you might like something like Coda. However, AlanF is correct and a good, comprehensive and free solution is Posterous (or Posterous Spaces as it now seems to be called ... http://posterous.com/). This allows posting from computer and/or mobile devices in a variety of convenient ways, and you can have both static content and blogs. You can also point your domain name to your Posterous site very easily.

And did I mention it is also free? Not, of course, that that would in any way influence a beekeeper

 

[Brosville]

"it will be a simple site mostly photos and text" - in that case, use something like "weebly" or the sitemaker on "one" - the modern web-based "point and click" website creators are excellent, give really professional-looking websites easily and cheaply.
I've done it the hard way many a time, using all sorts of software and ftp - nowadays, for a simple site, it really isn't necessary, and will probably produce far worse (and cost you money for the software)...
"Kiss" - keep it simple

A friend extolled the virtue of Weebly to me, so I gave it a twirl -
a few minutes of clicking! - http://organnyx.weebly.com/