What is the best free software to web design?

and where can I get it? It needs to be appropriate for building an Online Community/Social Network

What is the best free software to web design?
You should never resort to "WYSIWUG" editors, such as FrontPage, despite what some above poster said. All you really need is a copy of notepad, or notepad++ (but generally any text-editot would do)





I mostly just use notepad, but at bigger projects i use notepad++ for syntax highlighting, and tabbed editing.








Actually the light-weight editors are to prefer, notepad++ is quite good, and it isen't pumped up with a bunch of unnecessary features, just to sell itself. (like a lot of commercial tools are).





(notepad++)


http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
Reply:Really there isnt, if you want a good host that gives you some awesome software when you sign up, use Lunarpages, they give you about $300 dollars worth of the web design software called Coffee cup, I use this myself along with another program called Antenna Wed Studio, its $60 but well worth it since its pretty much the simplest way to build webpages using WYSIWYG to build them. But if you are setting up your own site then look into Lunarpages, it rocks.
Reply:Your being a bit vague, but there are plenty of free scripts like PHPBB ( a forum), drupal, phpnuke(content management) that you can install on php/mysql enabled webspace.
Reply:there isnt a software ,but just logon to www.freewebs.com
Reply:check this : http://www.osalt.com/search?q=web+desgin...
Reply:Personally I prefer to just use a text editor but then I'm an experienced programmer. Unfortunately with web design software you get what you pay for and the best packages cost a lot of money, Dreamweaver for example.





Since you are looking for free software I'd suggest Nvu which will run on Windows, OS X or Linux and you can find it here:





http://www.nvu.com/
Reply:If you have no background in web development........





You better use Front page or Publisher. It provides a very interactive interface to work. Both these software are available as part of Office Package. Free trial software is also available to download from website of Microsoft Office Home website.





If you want to create a dynamic pages....


Dream weaver is the best tool that provides easy to setup for website development. Very good tool for software development for the people having no background in web development... Flash movies , images, can be easily integrated. Visting a few online tutorial can help you learn Dreamweaver easily. You can download trial version (30 days period) from Adobe's Home website





If you have programming background and have knowledge "JSP is the best ever tool "; Apache Tomcat is for free from Sun's website. But if you don't know a word about Jave drop the idea to use JSP and servlets.





Good web hosting sites provides you with a free tool to ceate your own site. e.g. 1and1.com


I hope it will help
Reply:For computer software, free software is usually called open source software. Open source software is created by individuals who have a passion for programming, and for the applications that they are programming as well. Here's a great list of those open source programs.





http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007/...
Reply:Assuming you use windoze and not a linux distro, try MS's free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition:





http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/





This software is oriented towards ASP.NET, however. If you want to use PHP or something besides ASP.NET, ASP, or (X)HTML, there may be other programs better suited to your task.
Reply:try to search for some webtemplates on the net......if that doesn't work then try downloading html editors on net..........just google it to download these
Reply:no such thing