Best web-site maker for noobs

[Rage]

I'm going to admit to make a website, using one of those web-maker things like freewebs for ex. I just want to know the best one for noobs.

[Pitch]

n00bs shouldn't make websites. Period.

Honestly, I can tell you none of those WebBuilding sites are going to help you at all on the way to learning webdesign. They're all lazy, half@sser's tools. They're all for n00bs. Of course, most people who look into those have no interest in being good at it, and just want to make a site so they can say they have a site, I hate these people and for that reason I refuse to offer even a suggestion.

I could see about a free semi-adless host and suggest you learn to do pages in notepad.

[url=www.yourhtmlsource.com[/url]This[/url] is where I learned most of what I know of design now.

[Chiz]

I agree with Pitch, sorry to say. There's just way too much junk/abandonned/crap sites that it's bringing down the quality of the web as a whole by quite a bit. I really hate it when I come across site that sounds promising from the Google summary but you get in the site and it's shoddily made and hasn't been updated since it was originally created.

Honestly, my suggestion is to, before you go for a site of your own, work for a larger site that's already well off. There're communities for just about everything from a to z, so there's no reason why you can't involve yourself there.

Of course, if you're going for a 'personal' website, again, you shouldn't. There's really no point to it. Will you want to upkeep this site in a week? In a month? In half a year? Will you still have time for your site, even when you're back in school, or get a job? If not, you should seriously consider just practicing your HTML to yourself, and not post anything. If you need a webspace to call your own, get a blog on any of the number of blogging communities like Blogger, LiveJournal, or *shudder* MySpace.

Also, no self-respecting person hosts something on GeoCities, Lycos, Tripod and especially Freewebs for any length of time.

And yeah, seriously, notepad is your best bet for a webpage maker. I've used a number of webpage makers and all of them have limitations that aren't there with notepad. You're only limited by the understanding of the language. You don't even need to know that much...it's amazing what you can do with GIFs, tables, and Iframes.

Oh yeah, and don't be too ambtitious if you do a site anyways...that's what killed MGB.

[jennimajor]

I'm gonna make a site. Same one as others may have seen before. But the design is bad. For some computers it seems too big or small. So I decided to make it with (this was formerly a link redirecting to a site about coupons) they are really amazing..

[Dr. Jerk]

The most I can say,

If you're going to go with Freewebs... then learn some HTML first and go with the Advanced freewebs.

[Qwertman]

Freewebs is still around?! I remember that, that's how my friends and I got launched into web design. I lasted a little longer though. Dan switched to a free Cpanel host and started an SMF forum. I was skeptical at first, but eventually followed suit. When his died, I made my own SMF forum. Come high school, that died since everybody just started using Facebook, but I'm doing web design for local businesses on the side.

Pitch is right, web design is not for noobs. It's time consuming and difficult to make it look good, but unfortunately most people (including my clients... ugghhh) think it's easy. They think there's just some website you go to and type stuff in and drag stuff around. It's always funny when they ask me for access to edit the website and I give them an FTP login and a copy of notepad ++. That always helps get the message across XD

If you want to take the easy way out, there's always theme forest. That has a lot of nice HTML templates that you can learn from.