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For now, I am going to cover the least expensive "What you see is what you get" or WYSIWYG editor that I have found. Though simple, it is powerful and easy to use.  Stupid Damn Computer is the very first web site I built and I did it with Web Page Maker.

To learn how to use Web Page Maker, read the lower section below:

You can download a free trial of Web Page Maker here:

If you wish to purchase Web Page Maker for $49.00, you can do so here:

If you need to understand a little more about how web sites work in general, go here:

Another one of my stupid sites, www.sldebo.com, has a free information site for small business owners who are thinking about having a web site built for their business.  This free site seeks to educate visitors about the various types of web sites and allows people new to the process to get the basics down without a salesman hanging around their neck. Good FREE stuff.

I will soon cover two other web page editors, one called Artisteer, and  one called X Site Pro.

Web Page Maker is an award winning web site building program with many advanced features, that is very easy to learn to use.  This site is built with Web Page Maker.

The major advantages of Web Page Maker:

OK, let’s open it up and take it for a spin:

The registered version of Web Page Maker comes with a larger set of templates and allows you to drop the "generator" tag that tells everyone the page was built with Web Page Maker.  This is the only difference between the demo version and the registered version.

By and large the templates are very well made and can be modified to fit your requirements, simply by dragging whatever you want to wherever you want it.  You can substitute your own pictures for the ones there, or use the ones provided.

When you open Web Page Maker, you will see the following in your workspace: (I opened a template here)

As you can see. you have everything right in front of you.  In the larger pane to the left is the actual page you are working on, and the smaller pane will show all the pages in the site.

This interface allows you to simply click any section to start editing text, or changing images, or add other content.  With the various tools Web Page Maker has you can make a flash slide show simply by inserting one from the insert menu, then click on it and choose your pictures for the slideshow.  Web Page Maker will do the rest. 

You can see below that I have dragged and dropped some components of the page in the above template to my liking:

Where Web Page Maker really shines in the way it handles graphics.  We will take a look at that next.