FREE Website Creation Software

For years, FrontPage (now replaced by Microsoft Expression) and Dreamweaver have been the most widely used programs for creating webpages.  Both were pretty good, but Dreamweaver has dominated the scene for the past decade.

What’s Wrong With Dreamweaver?

Nothing.  Nothing that is, if you can afford it!  Oh, and it has a VERY steep learning curve.  It’s not one of those programs you can just open and intuitively know what all of the terms mean.  It has improved over the years, certainly, but it has also become more complex, being able to do some truly incredible things.

What’s The Alternative?

Well, there are several, including the new Microsoft Expression.  But as you know, I like FREE stuff.  Here’s a list of some of the free ones:

Aptana Studio

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Bluefish

Quanta Plus

Kompozer

Amaya

Now, these don’t all work with all operating systems, and each one looks and feels a little different, enough, perhaps, to put a person off of trying them each in turn.

Enter TRELLIAN WebPage

Trellian offers a superb FREE altrnative to Dreamweaver called WebPage.  Why do I like it more than the ones above?  Simply because it looks like, and works a lot like, Microsoft WORD (the 2007 version).

In other words, the learning curve is extremely shallow.  You really can be up and running with it the same day that you download it. This is NOT software designed for the professional web-developer who likes to change the html code, but it’s definitely one of the best if you simply want to do some WYSIWYG editing.

Why Is It Free?

Trellian is currently giving it away free of charge so that they can email you offers.  They’ll get your email when you register the product; you can always unsubscribe of course, but personally I’m not going to.  If their FREE product is as good as I’m learning it is, then I may very well try some of their paid products.

Oh, you do sometimes get a little advertisement when you open the software, but it’s not at all annoying and it DOES remind me to check-out their other offerings.

Check it out for yourself here: Trellian WebPage Download.

XSitePro

The final option I would like to discuss is XSitePro. While this is a paid product, it is, without ANY DOUBT in my mind, the best software for internet marketers.  Yes, you CAN learn Dreamweaver (which is, of course, and excellent tool for professional website designers) but Dreamweaver is anything BUT intuitive.

XSitePro is both intuitive AND full of features that Dreamweaver doesn’t have.  Features such as inserting Google Ads, Amazon products, PayPal buttons and dozens of others.

For the professional internet marketer, there simply is NO OTHER software to consider.  The support is superb, and doesn’t cost anything.  Yes FREE online support for any problems you may have.  These are REAL people (based in England) who I know will help you whenever you have a problem

Intellimon, the company that produces XSitePro, also has a fantastic new internet marketing course, called the Complete Guide to Website Building, the title of which does NOT do justice to the contents.  The course LITERALLY starts from assuming you have ZERO knowledge, and ends with you having your own website created and monetized!

If I were to recommend any ONE thing to new internet marketers, and even to wannabe internet marketers, it would be this; BUY XSitePro and BUY the Complete Guide to Website Building.

I promise you, you’ll be glad you did both for many years to come!

Luke.