What is the best Web design software program to use?

I love to do Web design, but I've only used Yahoo's Geocities Web design program. I would like a more professinal software/program. Any suggestions?

What is the best Web design software program to use?
Mozilla's NVU is my choice. FREE! Includes all the HTML tools.





Google it.
Reply:Where's the sample of your work in geocities?





e.g.





http://geocities.com/darwin916





http://360.yahoo.com/darwin916
Reply:Honestlt Ida,





If you really want to go professional, you should buy and learn Dreamweaver. It is the industry standard that professionals use. You can download dreamweaver from abobe.com for a 30 day trial. FrontPage is also a decent option.
Reply:Macromedia Dreamweaver is the benchmark in professional web design.
Reply:The very best web design authoring tool is "Composer" via the Netscape browser. It's simple and intuitive. Forsake Front Page via Internet Explorer since it creates more needless codes than necessary.





The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?... and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.





You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.





Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots.





A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.





Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.





Placement of Metatags:





A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.





The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services.





And the very last category - "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.





Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It's in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo's publication guidelines.





Good luck!