How to design and develop your own website

Are you a beginner in web design and development and want to develop your own website using HTML and CSS?

There are many ways to do that.

WYSIWYG editors:

If you want to host your site on Googlepages, you can simply drag and drop text and graphics to wherever you want, the code will change at the back-end. This type of website editors are called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors. There are many other web hosting companies that provide WYSIWYG functionality for their customers.

CoffeCup software

One cool software that provides easy web and graphics design functionality is CoffeCup software.

CoffeCup software has been developing web related software for many years. Their software are always cheap and are suitable only for beginners and not for professionals.

You can download a trial copy of all their software from their website CoffeCup.com
Some of their software is available for free.

You also get all kinds of pre-made graphics to use as backgrounds, buttons and icons on your site.

The most useful software from CoffeCup is the HTML Editor. This software can let you make a full page of your website with text and graphics in a matter of minutes. The latest version of CoffeCup HTML Editor also provides WYSIWYG functionality.

The next good thing is the CoffeCup Firestarter, a beginner's equivalent to Adobe's graphics design software. It lets you make flash based banners, menus and other graphics.

If you want dynamic Web Forms on your site, you can use their Web Form Builder software. Using this software, you can build your own forms even without writing any HTML code.

Do you have any similar software to list here? Please list them in the comments below.