What is the graphical wed design software of choice here. NVU, Dreamweaver or FrontPage.

For those of you not familair with NVU its a freeware type of program thats supposed to be like Dreamweaver and FrontPage.

Never heard of NVU.
FrontPage is a definite thumbs down.. waaaaaaaaaay down.
Dreamweaver is my tool of choice, but notice I said it's a TOOL. If you can't code HTML by hand to start with, DW cannot make a well-coded page on it's own. Used solely in WYSIWYG mode, DW creates nightmare code on it's own.

I tend to use TopStyle Pro more than I use DW any more. It's not a WYSIWYG html editor, you have to code by hand - and that's fine, my code is clean and semantic. TopStyle is CSS editor, and it's very good at what it does. I usually work with a CSS file and my html file open. Set up with the html file as the preview for the CSS and you can see immediately what's going on.

If you just want to produce simple html pages then go for NVU, if you need advanced capabilities go for Dreamweaver. Forget Frontpage!

There are many other free and commercial WYSIWYG page editors available as alternatives, just look through any shareware site like SnapFiles to find them.

At the end of the day LadynRed is right about coding by hand, that's the way to go if you want to refine your sites.

LadynRed, NVU came about from the old Netscape composer. It's open source under the Mozilla Public License. I think I downloaded it once and for all I know it's still installed on my computer.

blue-dreamer's advice is pretty good. If simple is fine NVU is a good choice. If you want or need advanced capabilities then DreamWeaver is the best choice. Of course there's quite a bit of difference in the price of each.

FrontPage = Garbage

Originally Posted by LadynRed

I tend to use TopStyle Pro more than I use DW any more. It's not a WYSIWYG html editor, you have to code by hand - and that's fine, my code is clean and semantic. TopStyle is CSS editor, and it's very good at what it does. I usually work with a CSS file and my html file open. Set up with the html file as the preview for the CSS and you can see immediately what's going on.

I do the same thing as LadynRed here. Only I use Dreamweaver. The point to be made is that when you are working with css, wysiwyg doesn't display properly in any program, (Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, or any other program), so you need to view in *code view* to create your pages anyway.

To view in wysiwyg is irrellevant anyway because the browsers are not showing what your wysiwyg program shows anyway.

But to reiterate, as fas as html editors go Dreamweaver is a great way to go. Not only for page creation, but, also for its site control tools. It has great ftp tools and administraion tools that can be very helpful.

Awesome program that most people only use 10% of it features...