Best website building software for beginners
There are so many website building software available today, it would be difficult to choose a website builder that is exactly suitable for your needs.
The first thing you should consider when choosing a website builder software is ease of use and friendly interface. Because you are probably just starting to experiment with website building, ease of use is very important to avoid spending long hours on learning coding and scripting.
Some website builder software helps you to build a website, but you still need to design the website layout yourself. The popular Adobe Dreamweaver software, for example, is an excellent choice for professional HTML developer. However you must have advance knowledge about HTML, PHP in order to use the editor. Plus you still need to do all the page layout design by yourself, including decide what color to use, draw menu buttons, create table and forms, etc, all by yourself.
If you are not a designer, and also do not have professional skill in website coding language such as HTML or Flash, then you should look for an all-in-one website builder solution which provides a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing environment, plus a website template gallery which allows you to kick-start a website easily.
In recent years, more and more web developers have started to use Flash to build their website. The advantage of using a flash website builder is that you can create a website in a matter of few minutes. And different from HTML, a single Flash file can include multiple pages of content, images, music and flash animations. If you try to do this in HTML, it would take you lots of time and programming efforts. Flash is a technology developed by Adobe and is now supported by 98% of all browsers in use.
Flash websites are highly interactive, visually appealing, and can attract more web visitors. Flash programming however is very complex and time consuming. That's why many users choose to use a flash website builder to help them to create a flash website easily.
There are two major types of flash builder available. Online based, and desktop based.
Online based flash website builder require you to pay for a monthly fee, build the website on the software company's web host (cannot be migrated to another website), and you must login to their service for the daily updates of your website. Whereas desktop based flash website builder is alike any software you are using on your desktop. They can be directly installed on your Windows XP or Vista desktop, and you can use it to build or edit flash websites any time, and upload to your own web hosting account.
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