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Website Building Software isn't strictly neccessary to build websites. You could buy stock website templates, or have a template custom made, and just add your text to them. Of course, you're going to have to know how to use html code in order to get your text formatted. That's not too difficult, if you have a little time - just navigate to a simple web page, click on "view" in your Internet Explorer toolbar, then "source" from the dropdown menu, and a notepad file will open with all the code for that page displayed. If there were no images, or css (behind the scenes code), you could drop the html into your own page, and publish it - and you'd have a duplicate of the page. Of course, this assumes that you have your own domain name and web hosting, know which files you need to drop the code into, and how to publish pages. In fact the exercise has no merit, except to show you that html is just text with some code added to format it. I've built web pages this way, changing any images to my own images, and the text to my own text. It took me days to do it, but I learned the basics by trial and error. These days, if I want to do something similar, I drop the code into Dreamwever, and manipulate it from there. It's not too difficult to build a web page this way, but once you begin to try to tie multiple pages together, in a coherent manner, i.e. try to build a website, it becomes tricky keeping track of everything. Many early websites were built using Microsoft Frontpage. I've never used it, but from what I understand, this software adds extra code that isn't required. It is still quite widely used though, mainly by people who learned to build websites with Frontpage, and have not moved on to more recent software. One up from front page is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. I have a copy, and use it in a basic sense, but it was really built for web designers to use, not online marketers. I guess I probably use around 10% of Dreamweavers functionality. I would happily learn how to use it more, but for me, it's something that I'd want to learn in a classroom, not online. So it's fair to say, that up until a few years ago there was a gap in the market. Internet Marketers were looking for a way to build websites themselves, without having to learn how to be a website designer. A number of developers designed their own website building software to fill this need. I know of only two that have stood the test of time, both of which I own and use. You'll find my reviews in the paid website design software section. |
