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photogirl123 · Dec 24, 2009, 12:12 AM

Hi! I'm making a photography website and I'm looking for something similar to Yahoo! Pagebuilder to build it on...on my mac...so I'm looking for a similar software that functions in the same way as Yahoo! Pagebuilder, where I can drag and drop graphics and arrange them on the page, but also use some HTML in it if I want..and also be able to upload the finished pages to the FTP at my webhost. I've tried numerous page builders and haven't found anything that makes me as happy as Yahoo Page builder has. I'm also looking for something FREE. Any ideas?

Thanks

turtle777 · Dec 24, 2009, 01:13 AM

Honeypot ?

-t

King Bob On The Cob · Dec 24, 2009, 12:06 PM

Free? You'll be unlikely to find that, but wasn't Yahoo PageBuilder just the old page builder tools from Geocities? That should work on a Mac as well because it claims it supports "Netscape Navigator or any browser that supports JavaScript"

Otherwise, I'd still suggest iWeb. If you look around online, you can find many tutorials on how to modify the HTML that iWeb puts out.

Other than that? Sandvox would be your next best option, but that costs.

besson3c · Dec 24, 2009, 12:15 PM

I would skip iWeb/Rapidweaver/Yahoo Pagebuilder, there are much better tools for building websites that require no HTML/Javascript knowledge, and produce far better results.

I would find yourself a WordPress template you like and set yourself up a WordPress site. WordPress is a one-click installer with a lot of web hosts, there is a ton of support and information, you'll get your WYSIWYG editor/drag and drop, you'll be able to skip FTP or using a particular desktop client, and you'll gain functionality such as site wide search, the ability to install widgets, archiving, and because the content is purely dynamic you can easily swap out your template for a new one at any given time.

Not to sound too dogmatic and harsh about this, but to me tools like iWeb, Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG and page management features, etc. are designed around the way we created sites in a "Web 1.0" world, if you will. If you dislike WordPress there are other options that follow this same model.