Hello fellow computer people.
I am taking a course on Web Design using Dreamweaver on an Apple Computer.
I have a XP Window puter and am looking to purchase a program that won't break the bank. Has anyone used MAGIX. If you have is it easy to use??? I just WANT to create a personal Webpage with a few pictures and with sound?? Any suggestions out there that will give me guiding light???

ThanksMaybe not a suggestion you'd want to hear, but I suggest that you start learning HTML.
Do a google on "HTML tutorial" and you'll find thousands of good sites that will teach you the basics of good webdesign.

Once you learned the basics (HTML) it will be a lot easier to use programs such as Dreamweaver or Magix.You could use frontpage. It's a Microsoft program, and I don't think it's too expensive. They also make a front page express which is free, but has a lot of functionality taken out of it.
Tiny MCE is an opensource web page editor. I've not used it, but it is the most downloaded editor on sourceforge.
For more options, search for "wysiwyg html editors"

However, Astoria is right, for the best results, you should learn a bit of html. It's probably the easiest coding language to learn. Check out www.webmonkey.com for tutorials.You can start easily with a web editor like front page 2000 or the popular free NVU. Then maybe start by signing up with a free host (I did INITIALLY for trial purposes), e.g. Netfirms Basic from http://www.netfirms.com/ or the popular http://www.110mb.com/ MANY free hosts have their own free web editors.

Perhaps download and use a free template from one of many templates web sites, e.g. http://www.steves-templates.com/ then up load your site to your host (use a free FTP program to upload your site - e.g. core FTP). Then you can promote it in forums, search engines, directories, etc, if you want.

You could start with a blog as well, e.g. try the Google’s BLOGGER, or use the simple Google Page Creator (You need a GMAIL account) - easy to set up for a beginner.

Later on though as suggested above, it might pay to learn html/JavaScript/PHP etc, which allows more flexibility to design and modify your web site. Then maybe upgrade to a paid host and domain, which will possibly yield more features (scripting, bandwidth, increased storage space, email accounts, etc) and more ownership of your site...

http://www.nvu.com/ (free web editor)
http://www.coreftp.com/ (FTP)
http://www.absolutely-free-hosting.com/ (Free Hosts)
http://pages.google.com/-/about.html (About Google Page Creator)
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp (html tutorial)

Good day.

I am a newbie in terms of web designing, I'm just wondering what program is sooted for a beginner like me.

Hope to gain more info from you guys Thanks in advance..