Comments on: Budget Mac web design software: Page editors

By: Mairead

Mairead — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:06:06 +0000

Thanks for your words of encouragement Matt. I haven’t had time lately to work on Rapidweaver, I guess what I’m looking for is an easier to follow tutorial than the one provided by MAC!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:25:39 +0000

@Mairead: Everyone says that Rapidweaver is pretty easy, so it might be worth persevering with it. I’ve always found KompoZer fairly straightforward too - less intimidating than Dreamweaver certainly!

iWeb is very easy to use too, if somewhat limited.

By: Mairead Reddin

Mairead Reddin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:57:35 +0000

Hi,

I enjoy reading your blog and wonder if you can recommend a web design application that is EASY to use! I use CS3 Photoshop and InDesign on a daily basis, but for some reason I find Dreamweaver daunting! I really need to learn web design though, I’ve tried Rapidweaver, but found the tutorial hard to follow… Any recommendations?

Thank you.

By: gushin

gushin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:47:54 +0000

i gotta put in my vote for skEdit. i own dreamweaver cs3 and i always use this inexpensive litle program.

one of the best features is that you can open multiple sites at once and have each on on a different window so copying form one site to another is simple.

sometimes simplier is better.

By: Si

Si — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:48:02 +0000

Bless - PageSpinner! I remember using that in the late 90s - I didn’t even know it was still going! It makes me feel all nostalgic..

Si xx

By: rfoto

rfoto — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:58:27 +0000

Just thought I would mention Pagespinner. I don’t have much experience with it but notice it gets pretty good reviews.

http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:38:36 +0000

@Ray: Your link doesn’t work, but I’m sure your page is very nice! Also how do you hide the sidebar in RW? And what do you mean by “they have an html page”?

By: Ray Mack

Ray Mack — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:02:12 +0000

This is my NEW home page, created in Rapid Weaver! Hey! You can hide the sidebar in nearly every template I’ve seen! Hey, you can have individual pages use a different template! Hey, you can override CSS for all sorts of customizations with “snippits.” Hey they have an html page! What’s not to like! You didn’t dig very deep!
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Bye R@y

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:35:47 +0000

@Si: I’d blanked Eclipse for some reason. Nice one!

@Eric: I did mention Freeway Express: “Other budget WYSIWYG editors include the also-free Amaya and the $80 Freeway Express.”

@hide: Since KompoZer is essentially a bug-fix release of Nvu, I didn’t think it was worth listing Nvu as well (great though it is!).

By: hide

hide — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:25:06 +0000

You list KompoZer, but why not NVU? Based on the same thing I think…
http://nvudev.com/index.php