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Hi,
I am wondering what is the easiest way to create a personal website. Not posting or hosting but the creation part. I am trying out "pagebreeze editor" and it is pretty good but some of the things I am trying to do are not working "with ease". What would you recommend me using. I have heard frontpage is pretty good but I only briefly used it one or two times.
Thanks for all the advice.

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A quick, practical route to "easy" site creation is: decide how much you want to learn, sketch the content, then pick a workflow that matches that goal. wanted ease — that can mean a visual builder for fast results or a tiny hand-coded starter for control and portability. Both are valid; the trade-off is speed versus clean, maintainable output.

The community has already flagged the two common paths: powerful editors have features and a learning curve, lightweight tools get you started fast, and learning basics pays off long term. , and each touched on parts of that trade-off — take the route that keeps you motivated. If you want to learn, focus on a simple file-based workflow; if you want to finish quickly, use a tool that gives immediate layout results but be aware the output can be harder to maintain.

A minimal, safe workflow to start building right away:

  1. Plan one page: header, intro, contact, footer.
  2. Create a local folder with index.html, css/styles.css, and an images/ folder.
  3. Use a tiny HTML starter (example below), edit the text and styles, and open index.html in your browser to preview.
  4. Test on a phone and desktop, fix paths, and simplify markup if something feels messy.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
  <title>Your Name — Home</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css">
</head>
<body>
  <header><h1>Your Name</h1></header>
  <main><p>Short intro.</p></main>
  <footer><small>© Year Your Name</small></footer>
</body>
</html>

Troubleshooting tips: check file paths (relative vs absolute), watch case sensitivity, clear cache when edits don’t appear, and keep images optimized. When ready to progress, learn a bit of semantic HTML and responsive CSS — that investment makes future edits and moves to a hosted site far easier.

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Member Avatar for joeoreg

Dreamweaver but it takes some getting used to and not exactly a cheap solution.

Member Avatar for codejunkie

For getting your skills going I would suggest any light weight "text editor" such as Coffeecup ($ for v-2008, there is also a free version, as well as a free trial of the 2008...)
An oldie but good free entry level program is evrsoft First Page 2000 http://www.evrsoft.com (the 2006 paid version seems to have a lot of problems that are not being fixed according to the forum, but you can find the original Front Page 2000 version at *reliable* download sites). (Note: If your AV program complains about a virus it's the "Cookie From ...Heck", and you just delete it. It was a joke from the original programmers.
MS has some nice complicated offerings like Visual Studio, also the original Front Page (both take custom settings on your web server). OR, if you're interested in getting to know the nuts and bolts of a webpage, just use your free MS Notepad (or other text editor if you use another OS) with any browser, flip between the two and start from scratch. There are several free html instruction sites such as http://www.all-html.com/.
If you need further ideas, feel free to PM.

Member Avatar for BigLove

For getting your skills going I would suggest any light weight "text editor" such as Coffeecup ($ for v-2008, there is also a free version, as well as a free trial of the 2008...)
An oldie but good free entry level program is evrsoft First Page 2000 http://www.evrsoft.com (the 2006 paid version seems to have a lot of problems that are not being fixed according to the forum, but you can find the original Front Page 2000 version at *reliable* download sites). (Note: If your AV program complains about a virus it's the "Cookie From ...Heck", and you just delete it. It was a joke from the original programmers.
MS has some nice complicated offerings like Visual Studio, also the original Front Page (both take custom settings on your web server). OR, if you're interested in getting to know the nuts and bolts of a webpage, just use your free MS Notepad (or other text editor if you use another OS) with any browser, flip between the two and start from scratch. There are several free html instruction sites such as http://www.all-html.com/.
If you need further ideas, feel free to PM.

Thanks codejunkie, that is alot of useful information and I will check them out.

Member Avatar for tiger86

I personally don't like this program cause it is to way to basic but it will make you a decent Website EwebeditPro. I think it is free :)

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