People who play with websites...?

[byslantedlight]

So... having a lovely shiny new laptop, and having my files and photos etc safely stored and moved across, the next thing I have to do is re-download the various programmes I've been using. That's fine, except for the programme I use for my palelyloitering website, which was a very old and naughty version of DreamWeaver... Really I needed to deal with the fact that some aspects of it weren't functional any more, so this is perhaps a good kick for doing that, but... waaah - I can't afford to buy a shiny new version of DreamWeaver at all! Which brings me to my question... *g*

Does anyone use a DreamWeaver equivalent for organising and uploading and all their website? One that's nice and free and user-friendly? I do want to be able to access the code and so on, so that I can see what it's doing when I need to, but I liked being able to write pages without the code too (is that called the WYSIWYG function?) I've googled and found things like Aptana and KompoZer and BlueGriffon - two of those seem to me Firefox-oriented, which I don't use by choice, and the other doesn't have WYSIWYG, but perhaps the former shouldn't matter? Anyway - if anyone's got any suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated, cos I'm slow enough at getting the poor old website updated and all as it is... (I wish I was clever enough to be able to make it searchable, too, but I think that's an entirely different thing, from poking around about it a year or so ago...)

Help? *g*

Comments

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

Hmm, what do you mean with firefox oriented ?
I mainly use Phase 5, but this is only available in german :(
In the beginning I also used Kompozer for a while, which wasn't too bad as far as I remember.
That's the only programs I know about and work(ed) with ...

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I haven't done this stuff for over a year now - so I'm one with the dinosaurs *g*

I've always used Dreamweaver, except when somebody else set up a web site for the guy I was working for - it was supposed to be for his hobby, but I often was the one to update it. It was accessed using http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ and I found it really lovely and easy to use. Not sure at all if that's of any help though, but I thought I'd chuck it in and see if anyone else has any bright ideas!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I used KompoZer for years when I had my website since it supports Linux. I didn't write code. It was a type in the block format. I haven't used it for three or four years now but when I did, I remember it was fairly uncomplicated. All of them always need some tweaking.

[jack-regan.livejournal.com]

I've always found http://www.coffeecup.com/software/ to be most excellent on the windows side.