Web Design Software Reviews

Doodlekit

Thu, 8 May 2008

Doodlekit is relatively restrictive in its free offering, with a simple site that consists of just a homepage, a blog, a photo album and five other pages of your choice...

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Weebly

Thu, 8 May 2008

Weebly offers a drag-and-drop approach to building a web page and specialises in pulling content from other websites like YouTube, Flickr and Google Maps.

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350pages

Thu, 8 May 2008

350pages sounds like a lot but, you don’t get this many with the free service. There seems to be a good range of templates, but they're to tempt you into the paid-for service.

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Google Pages

Thu, 8 May 2008

It’s not often that a Google service comes this low down in a comparison test. However, it’s not because Google Pages is particularly bad, just that the competition is so much better.

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Lycos Tripod

Thu, 8 May 2008

Tripod was one of the original free site-hosting services and it’s developed in a very sophisticated direction. It now offers advanced features like PHP5 and MySQL...

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Mr Site Takeaway Website Pro

Sat, 29 Mar 2008

The latest upgrade from Mr Site, which provides a professional website with a minimum of effort.

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Visual Site Designer

Thu, 24 May 2007

Known and admired for its HTML editor, Coffee Cup’s Visual Site Designer delivers a set of reasonably attractive templates and a bunch of simple tools with which to manipulate them.

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Homepage Maker 5 Pro

Thu, 24 May 2007

Homepage Maker 5 Pro holds considerable power beneath its interface, which is welcoming despite being deeply peculiar, but there are just too many oddities to recommend it.

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Mr. Site

Thu, 24 May 2007

Although it arrives in a box with a CD, Mr. Site is, like the Magix Website Maker, a web-based offering...

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Serif WebPlus 10

Thu, 24 May 2007

If you’re familiar with Windows and know how to use a word processor, then WebPlus is unlikely to appear too daunting.

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Serif WebPlus 10

Mon, 4 Sep 2006

Can the latest version of Serif’s website building software bring advanced design options to beginners?

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Yahoo Geocities - SiteBuilder

Thu, 29 Sep 2005

Adopting a cheap and cheerful approach to web design, Yahoo Geocities provides a choice of PageWizards to get your site up and running.

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Tripod WebBuilder

Thu, 29 Sep 2005

Creating a site with Lycos Tripod’s free WebBuilder tool is tremendously easy.

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1&1 WebsiteBuilder

Thu, 29 Sep 2005

Web-design software for novices usually involves clunky templates with gaudy colours and dodgy clipart. This certainly isn’t the case with 1&1’s online site builder...

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