Good software for designing websites (HTML)?

Upon Infinity · January 13, 2015, 01:18:35 PM

Anyone know of any (hopefully cheap) programs I could use as mine needs a serious update to more reflect the new direction I'm going in.

PabloMack · January 13, 2015, 07:25:21 PM

I hate to ask this but it depends on what you want to accomplish. There are programs that make pretty websites but don't support PHP so you are sort of stuck with what they are limited to do. Sea monkey is free and it will create basic web pages with little headache. The latest version is supposed to support HTML5. If you want to do more advanced things then after you use SeaMonkey to obtain the basic layout then you can edit the source and do some fancier things.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Upon Infinity · January 14, 2015, 12:25:07 AM

Thanks. I'm gonna check it out. My host used to have some decent stuff they provided but it's not compatible with Win 7.

mhaze · January 14, 2015, 03:25:07 PM

Coffeecup software is good and not too expensive.

PabloMack · January 15, 2015, 08:13:36 AM

I am still using a laptop running Windows XP for my email and news groups. Since Windows 7 no longer has email this has put me in a dilemma. Because I will need to maintain my website I have downloaded and installed SeaMonkey 3.32 and was pleasantly surprised that the suite contains email and newsgroup support. Looks like I will be slowly migrating to this software for email and newsgroups. I was dreading having to buy an email package only to risk losing it years down the road when the source company decides not to support it any more. Hopefully SeaMonkey will be around for a long time.

Dune · January 15, 2015, 10:47:50 AM

I had the same frustration, but I now use Thunderbird which is in fact way better and more versatile than outlook express.

PabloMack · January 15, 2015, 03:48:57 PM

I was inclined to think that Thunderbird might be a better email app than SeaMonkey's because it seems that is all it does. Then I came across this rant. I think I will study the problem before I decide.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1727175

Dune · January 16, 2015, 03:38:06 AM

Thanks for that, Pablo. Interesting. Few of those really bother me, but you're right about SM. Might be my next choice

mhaze · January 16, 2015, 04:25:04 AM

Note that was posted in 2003

Dune · January 16, 2015, 07:39:03 AM

Ah, I didn't. Thanks.

PabloMack · January 18, 2015, 05:51:36 PM

Quote from: mhaze on January 16, 2015, 04:25:04 AMNote that was posted in 2003

Hmmm...It says "Posted January 31st, 2010, 4:11 pm"

But its still a bit dated. I should have noticed.