Free website design program?

[neriana]

Does anyone know of a user-friendly free or very cheap shareware website design program? I have to design a website on ancient Mesopotamian trade routes by February 27th for my archaeology course, and regardless of what my professor seems to think, I don't have time to learn html .

[Andyr]

I don't know of one, but will tell you that basic html can be pretty easy to learn. So if you don't turn anything up, try this site: http://www.w3schools.com/html/

[Drew]

If you can use GeoCities or FreeWeb for your site they already have a user-friendly interface.

[CamDawg]

I use Dreamweaver professionally. It appears you can download a copy for a 30 day evaluation period at Macromedia's web site. It does require registration but you can always use mailinator.

[ronin69hof]

HTML Editors:

 

1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html

Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

Selida - http://www.######lis.8m.com/

Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/

TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

 

all free

 

ronin

[NiGHTMARE]

I'm quite fond of Netscape Composer, which comes with Netscape Navigator.

[neriana]

Thanks a lot everyone. Unfortunately, I have to use my student website for it, so I can't use the sitebuilder on my usual website or any other ones. But the student website has more space anyway. I'll definitely check out these links.

[Shed]

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

 

This is good if you want ready-made. Or you could search for GNU licensed designs.

[icelus]

Check with your university and see if they have a partnership with Microsoft. The last two schools I attended both offered various Microsoft products (including Windows, Office, etc) for extremely low prices, i.e., under $20. I purchased Front Page 2003 this way from the University of Texas (through the campus computer store). Front Page is horrific for making more permanent websites, but for something "quick 'n dirty" it's pretty easy to use, and usually comes with ready-made templates.

[Idobek]

Icelus = BANED!

[Sorrow]

[neriana]

I tried a whole bunch of programs, but Nightmare was right, Netscape Composer was the way to go. Too bad the new version of Netscape doesn't include it, but I'm using what came with 7.2.

 

Anyway, here's the site so far, if anyone has a burning interest in ancient Sumer. It's supposed to be almost complete by Friday, and I can't believe I made it, considering I had two exams this week too.

[Andyr]

Hey, nice. I'm vaguely interested in that period and area. Didn't know you were a historian.

[Bri]

Nice site, Neriana. Any chance of putting up some information about Napishtim (I apologize for the misspelling of the name) or of Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

[neriana]

Nice site, Neriana.  Any chance of putting up some information about Napishtim (I apologize for the misspelling of the name) or of Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

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I have a link and a couple of references to Gilgamesh and Enkidu there, but all these myths and stories would take more time than I have to do them justice. Napashtim could very well = Ziusadra, as they both were men who built arks to survive the flood. I'll be putting up the website links tomorrow (or tonight if I'm really motivated when I get home after class at 9:30 PM -- hah!), and there's a TON of info with those, lots of which refer to Gilgamesh. I might revisit the site later in the term and continue adding stuff about myths, culture, economic and political structure, etc., if I have time. It's definitely a fascinating subject.

 

Andyr: Yeah, history major and English minor, or history and English double major, depending on how many more classes I'd need in the English. So not a "historian" quite yet, but hopefully getting there. This particular class is archaeology, it's a ton of work but very interesting.