Free web authoring software?
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MS Word can do web pages. Most people already have it.
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Go to Sureceforge.net and get yourself any one of a number of compeltely free CMS systems.  Just do a search for CMS and then sort it by the operating system you will be running it on (Windows, Linux or Unix) and download away.
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I use open source CMS programs all the time!!!!!!\nLook at the link below and it will give you over 20 different programs to fit your need!
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i dont know of anything free but if you are willing to pay you can go to edthosting.com buy a domain(ex: http://www.lentz101.net)\nthen you can get hosting (they're the people that let you manage your site) then you find some html codes to post on notepad and update via ftp:// or buy a program such as microsoft front page and update via either http:// or ftp:// HOPE THIS HELPS, I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK!
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You could try either Yahoo 360 or Geocities.  Both are free and easy to build pages on.
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http://webmonkey.com\nhttp://htmlgoodies.com\n\nboth are free and offer alot of tutorials
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Go for Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express 2005. U will get the whole software free (Licenced edition) from microsoft site. Enough to create web pages that is professional. Anyway if u r developing and deploying sites as a buisiness check microsoft licence agreement (EULA) for approved usage terms.\n\nIf u r looking for a light weight one. either u can ignore vast capabilities of above and use only HTML pages or use Microsft Frontpage. All these equally support drag-n drop features and a WYSIWYG interfaces. U can get free lessons on VWD Express and starter tutorial if u register it(again free)
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Free site builder.\nNVU\nhttp://www.nvu.com\n\nFree FTP to upload pages.\nFilezilla\nhttp://filezilla.sourceforge.net/\n\nFree HTML tutorials.\nhttp://www.w3schools.com/\n\nStep by step tutorials.\nhttp://www.webmasterautomation.com/videos/
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http://geocities.yahoo.com  It's free.
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Try Microsoft Live Office. You can build a website for free for a limited time, but if you move up to the $30 month it's much better. Start with free & see how it goes. I'm currently building a website there & while it's a bit of a struggle I'm sticking with it.
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of course yes, brws my website below and downlaod this software for free,\nhttp://daney200334.sitesled.com/yahoo/help_mps.html
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Free\nGood Luck\n\nhttp://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/
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Try http://www.sourceforge.net\n\nEverything there is open source.
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It depends on how much you want to spend and how much you know about HTML.  My personal choice is Dreamweaver (from Macromedia, now part of Adobe).  That allows you to edit in HTML and using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface at the same time.  Dreamweaver is very expensive though.  \n\nCoffee Cup software (www.coffeecup.com) make their own software which I have not used, but looks reasonably good and that is also quite cheap.  \n\nThe best thing to do is download a few trial versions and see which you like best!
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i would suggest Namo WebEditor for the begining... very complex and at the same time easy to use. Good luck
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You can use Microsoft Office Publisher.\n\nIt's user friendly.
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Try the site below.  There are a lot of free programs on that site as well.  Also try searching for site creation tools usually associated with blogs.  there's one xml version I don't remember the name of that a lot of websites are using to keep their news updated and it's really simple.  I think that website uses it themselves.  It's very modular like the yahoo homepage.