Simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web design programs make creating basic sites as easy as using a word processor.
The next step up combines a WYSIWYG approach with more detailed low-level control of what you're doing, very useful when you're looking to create a more impressive site (although you may have to spend some time learning the basics).
There are plenty of high level applications aimed at the more experienced users, who like to be able to focus on the HTML, CSS or scripting code.
And of course you may also need tools to create your graphics, analyze the finished site and diagnose any problems.
Whatever you're looking for, though, we've found a free tool which can help - just keep reading to discover our pick of the best free software for web design.
CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is the free version of a commercial product, and so missing a few tools (CSS menu design, FTP upload and so on).
If you're a beginner, though, this probably won't matter too much. You can use the Open From Web option to open an existing web page, for instance, and tweak this to add your own content.
There are plenty of powerful editing tools, a local Help file to walk you through the more complicated parts, and you can also upload your page to CoffeeCup's S-Drive platform, where it will host it for free.
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