# Please recommend a website design program **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261 "2003-11-09T18:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261/21 "2003-11-10T21:41:35Z")
I maintain a family webpage - pictures of the kids, a blog-like weekly diary of what we’re up to. I don’t have the time to learn HTML, I just want Aunt Frannie to see my Halloween pictures. I found **CoolPage** to be a very nice, VERY inexpensive webpage developer. It’s very close to WYSIWYG, is very intuitive - most things are truly drag-and-drop. About the only complaint I have is that it’s text editing is not very feature-rich, but I’m willing to live with that. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261/22 "2003-11-11T03:49:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KidCharlemagne \* > If I’m just beginning to learn, is there any reason not to learn XHTML over HTML? No. The changes of XHTML 1.1 over HTML 4.01 (I hope I am getting the version numbers right :)) are very minor, so you might as well use it. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261/23 "2003-11-11T04:29:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Urban Ranger \* > **Duckster** , > > Arachnophilia is a good program, but it definitely is not WYSIWYG I never said it was. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261/24 "2003-11-11T05:27:14Z")
No, **I** said it was WYSIWYG. The new Java version is not. But the old version (which I linked to, and is a Windows program) can split the screen and have a browser so you can see your changes. OK, so it’s only half WYSIWYG. I got spoiled using Dreamweaver. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261/25 "2003-11-11T05:47:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duckster \* > > Yo also might want to consider another freeware program, [1st Page 2000](http://www.evrsoft.com/), as well. I downloaded this. Norton Antivirus found a trojan horse virus. So I got rid of it (the virus and the program). What gives? I don’t suggest anyone else download and install it, but does anyone else know what gives? The last thing I expected was a trojan horse from this program! I also recommend Dreamweaver, (I have it for my Mac) but if you can’t get that, I like HomeSite or BBEdit. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261/26 "2003-11-11T07:14:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Urban Ranger \* > \*\*CSS is actually very simple. > > This is an [excellent website to show off CSS](http://www.csszengarden.com/) \*\* Wow. My life has been forever changed. **studies the link intently** Oh, also, to answer your resolution question, I generally size my pages with a maximum width of 800 so that those still using 800 x 600 can see the whole thing width-wise (actually, I try to fit them into 750 if I can, so those people don’t have to have their browser take up the whole screen), but it depends on your target audience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-website-design-program/212261.md?page=1)