Web design for beginners

Agreed iWeb was one of the easiest to use CMS (content management systems.) A real lose.

Try Weebly http://www.weebly.com/ I have seen some nice sites made this way.

The Adobe stuff looked like a nightmire to me, with a steep learning curve. DreamWeaver the worst.

I opted to learn straight up html, xhtml, html5, css, jquery, php. In the long run you have much more insight and control.

Good luck !

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.8.2) 2.4GHz IntelCore i5 320 HD 8GB RAM ParallelsDesktop8.0 iPhone5_iOS6.0.2

I'm somewhat in the same boat - I'm just two months into learning web design (I have over 30 years of experience in print design) and have the Adobe Creative Cloud membership - everything at my disposal. I started out with Dreamweaver (using the Adobe CIB series) as well as a book teaching HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript - this book from Amazon.

I've found that there are no shortcuts to learning web design. Two months into it and I can only create the most basic of sites. I've not yet touched Adobe Muse, just continuing on with learning more about the languages, etc., using, primarily, Dreamweaver.

There are a number of WYSISYG 'editors' out there, but to me they do a poor job of actually teaching web design. So my suggestion is to start with Dreamweaver, using the CIB book for it, and buying the book that I link to - it's great.

Good luck,

Clinton

I am continuing to use iWeb until something better comes along. I played around with a number of the other WISIWIG apps out there & none of them really give you the flexibility over design that iWeb does.

Here is what I have done with iWeb:

http://jeffnitschke.com

There is an app in the works but no info on pricing or features have been announced:

http://iwebreplacementapp.com

That looks really great. And you did all of that with features in the last version of iweb? Did you have any external programs at work? The rreason I stopped using iweb was because it was getting exceedingly buggy in the publishing process. I kept having to change things or dumb them dow (drop shadow effects specifically) so that they wouldn't distort. And hyperlinks would end up nowhere near where I placed them despite the text not moving. It was incredibly frustrating. In the last few days, I've been playing around with Muse and Adobe Edge using Aperture and Photoshop for graphics. So far it's been really great, just way more time consuming than iWeb was.

Sorry for the delayed response. I am running iWeb 3.0.4 I do use photoshop for editing photos & have a couple html snippets for the rotating images

I am also keeping an eye on a new app that is suppose to be announce at Macworld here at the end of the month called "EasyWeb"

Creative Suite is overkill for a small personal website and while I am an experience Adobe trainer, for my own personal website I don't use it. iWeb has its good points and bad but one undeniable bad point is that it is no longer being developed by Apple and some day changes in the OS will make it unusable. For this reason I think it is better to spend the time and money learning how to use a program being actively developed. RapidWeaver is my choice.

You don't need to know a single bit of HTML or CSS to use it. Like iWeb it is drag and drop and requires no coding. If you want to learn HTML and CSS you can modify its built in templates to your own specifications or you can purchase reasonably priced templates and plug-ins. It is shareware and you can download a free working copy to give it a try.

WIX is pretty good, or wordpress 🙂