I'm looking for a good program to design/create web pages. I have Dreamweaver 6/MX, but don't really know how to use it. It came bundled with my MX Studio that I bought a few years back in college. I am wondering if there is any easier to use software than Dreamweaver to Drag & Drop, or create pages as easiliy as it is in MS Word, where you design the layout, then add links and java script afterwards to it?

I use to code everything ( HTML & Java Scripts ) from scratch, but it is time consuming, and I'd rather use a software application that would be more beneficial to my limited amount of time every evening.

I tried MS Word, and Powerpoint from Office 2000 to design web pages, but they come out like junk, large borders on each side of the web pages. Everything looks nice when in the Word or Powerpoint layout/format, but when saved as HTML, and viewed through my browser, they are horrible looking with large margins at each side of the page.

I searched the internet for an inexpensive tool to create nice professional looking web pages, and all I find is very expensive software and sites that want $20/month to use their tools.

I could, but would rather not rip other peoples source code to alter for my own...  :-/  Thanks for any suggestions...Mybe I need to get a BOOK on Dreamweaver 6/MX and read up to learn it.    :-?You could try MS Frontpage. I do not recommend it as I to would rather code everything from scratch in HTML, or some other web programming.Coffee Cup Software has a lot of good software:

http://www.coffeecup.com


And their free editor is worth a look at. It may be all you need:

http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor/Take a look at Nvu also.  It's freeware.

http://www.nvu.com/about.php
http://nvudev.com/guide/1.0PR/ugs02.htmThanks GX1_Man and soybean for the links. I am going to try out their software to figure out which one works best for my NEEDS. Greatly Appreciated !!!! IMHO, Nvu is the best.
Just my $0.02, and mainly because I don't like Frontpage (TOOK out lots of my work when it crashed once, and I've never trusted it since . . .)FrontPage STILL produces horrible, non-standard code.  Dreamweaver is much better, although I don't like the way its layout tables allow for sloppy design and hideously nested tables with random rowspans and column spans.

Avoid FrontPage at all costs.  Microsoft's NEXT web design effort, "Web Expression" looks much better.  Any of the others listed in this thread are good too.  Out of the lot though, I'd say if you have Dreamweaver and don't want to code in plain text, use it.  There are plenty of tutorials around, including those that come with Dreamweaver.