Ask HN: Program to build webpages?

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i have an application that isnt too heavy on the webside of things, it is mostly the "program" that is the application.

now i wan to put it online and i im just bad at webdesign. im halfdecent at html but i just cant put together a goodlooking page.

is there a program that lets you build css/html/javascript pages easily? doesnt need to be advanced at all as long as it is correct html4.0+

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Someone on the Joel forum recently lamented the lack of decent prebuilt web app templates:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.632032....

I quite agree. Open Designs: http://www.opendesigns.org/ has bazillions of blog and corporate designs, so I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to expect a few more web app templates would be collected somewhere.

I suppose I should be the first to mention Weebly: http://www.weebly.com/ I've used it to bang up a quick UI and it's fine if you can accept its current limitations.

weebly and open design are both awesome, ty very much, exactly what i wanted.

Emacs. By the way, you ought to attempt to improve your writing as well - it's painful to read something with a nearly total lack of punctuation and proper capitalization.

what do you mean emacs? is there a builtin htmlpagecreator?

and my punctuation is good and it is the internets anyway.

Just because its the 'internets' doesn't mean that good grammar/spelling/etc. are not appreciated. The more clearly you communicate the likelier you are to get some help.

As for your initial question, perhaps something like Dreamweaver - http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ - would be what you're looking for.

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