Best / Easiest (free) software for barebone websites?

[grubbyfox]

I am just in the works of making a website for just posting some pics and providing some info. It's not meant to be viewed on a phone, I dont even care about mobile users lol. It's mostly just a little archiving project I want to do.

I've never been good with HTML and I can never remember even the most basic codes, so even just adding backround color, text/font/size etc takes me so long, I just end up never doing antyhing because I end up having to google the most inane things over and over :-0

I was pretty quick with Frontpage back in the 00s, but now I am wondering if there are other, free programs that are similar? I tried the, uh Silex cloud thing, but I could not understand anything ;__; I was completely lost on just adding text and background color, oof.

Any tips on how and where I can easily make a few ye olde web pages? <3

[DiffydaDude]

I believe txti.es allows you to make simple text-type websites. I had that bookmark saved on my PC and it sounds like a good answer to your question.

[Memory]

txti.es is out of the game since last year.
Fortuneatly plenty of great HTML editors are out there. My chosen one was Nvu (screenshot in the attachments). It's successor is called Kompozer. Can be used like a text editor. Images can be dragged along like it is MS Word. Easy to use!

[grubbyfox]

OH nice, is it still useable? Or would it be KompoZer that is the one to try? 

[Memory]

Just noticed that Kompozer stopped development in 2010 as well. Will it work on your computer... give it a try! There probably isn't anything lost through using outdated software for the task of hand-writing a simple website the easiest way possible.

Also, I'm throwing Microsoft Word in the ring as an easy HTML website maker. That can actually save a .doc or .docx file as .html (at "Save as", select file format). The actual HTML code is quite bloated and contains many unnecessary background information, but it's better than nothing, is it?

[brisray]

All the best free WYSIWYG HTML editors seem to be long gone. I suppose with so many versions and frameworks to support they just fizzled out. About the only one left being still updated is SeaMonkey. Visual Studio Code has extensions that can preview HTML code.

W3Schools Spaces looks interesting but I haven't tried it.

Notepad++ is a good code highlighter for HTML, and can be used for following the turorials from places like W3Schools, Mozilla, and other places.

As for using using Word to create a webpage, it can be done but you won't learn anything and well, EEK!

As for me, I use Adobe DreamWeaver, but I'm not the one who is paying for it and on a good day I can use any old plain text editor.