Web Design Software
 

I work part time at a school that teaches computers. Word, Excel, etc.

We are wanting to start a basic web design program.

We are looking for a decent software for beginners.

We want to stay away from Front Page and do not want to pay for Dream Weaver.

We want to teach basic HTML coding by writing it manually.

We want it to :

Create Frames
Create Tables
Create Rollovers
Make an Image map
Create Style Sheets
Add Objects
Have some built in JavaScript
Handle Graphics.

We are looking at Coffee Cup Software, Web Studio 4, and few others..

Any other suggestions.

scottb |spaceship

Coffee cup isn't bad for the price.

Composer is free with Netscape

DD

Surfn,

I personally use Coffee Cup. I paid $122 for the complete package in 1998 and get free updates. They have added new tools at no charge to me. I like it very very much, I just wish they would add a drop and drag feature.

Dangerdave,

I have never used Composer. I have Netscape 7.1 and am not even sure it is loaded on my my computer.

Any more input is welcome. Whatever we choose, I am stuck using as a teaching tool for the next few years.


scottb |spaceship

Scott

bottom left of Netscape on your status bar.. should be the NN button and another button.. hold you mouse over it and it should say Composer

DD

DangerDave,

Never even knew it was there.

I may use it it, but I am not sure it is really a good teaching tool. I will have to play with it awhile.

Thanks,

scottb |spaceship

Free software is good software :)

DD

DangerDave,

I agree free software is good software,

I could teach Web Design with Notepad.

I would like the students to have the basics, but also some easy options.

The school is willing to invest a small amount of money.


scottb

I have been playing around with Composer. It is a pretty nice litle program.

I have made some pretty cool web pages with it.


scottb

I am interested in what you find to be the easiest to work with.

I just bought the Macromedia Suite MX 2004 with Dreamweaver MX, Freehand MX, Fireworks MX, Flash MX, and Cold Fusion 6.1

This is the easiest to work with but it is $$$

Coffee Cup is a good package for the price. It has a lot of built in features.

I don't like Frontpage.

Composer seemed pretty nice.

For a beginner I would say go with Coffee Cup.

I haven't liked most the free WYSIWYG editors on the web.


scottb

My opinion.

I'm guessing that you are looking for PC solutions but if not I know of a bunch of Mac ones.

I personally mostly use GoLive these days. I used to use BBEdit a lot but now that GoLive has such a good code editor in it I don't find myself using it much anymore other then if I need to use Grep on a complex search and replace.

The most important thing is definately ease of use since I don't know HTML.