Sorry, that’s www.everybodyandme.com.
Notepad. You write your own code as you like it.
Squarespace is pretty user friendly with good templates.
What about Wordpress?
You can try CoffeeCup for free.
The days of writing pure html or using an html editor for a personal site are long gone. Today you download (free) html and css templates and use those. If your site is in wordpress there are lots of free wordpress templates available. Better ones cost a little bit but the free ones should be good enough.
Install vscode — it’s free. You’ll still be coding HTML by hand.
There’s no wysiwyg tool out there that doesn’t suck.
My advice is, keep writing HTML, but get a book on CSS and learn the basics -- it'll save you a TON of time and make things look and work better.
One caveat: If you do database back-end stuff, be REAL careful with hand-coded access. It's easy to let the bad guys in. That might be the one place to rely on high-quality packages.
I’d look at wordpress. Just look. Not saying it’s best but it is fairly easy and there are 1000s of templates and add-ons you can use if for example you want to be able to post clips of your past work for people to play. Form submissions are fairly straightforward etc. Probably even has a booking (time scheduling) add on.
It may take some getting used to because it is decidedly built for the non-coder. But it’s mostly drag and drop and click to install. If you are hosted at any of the major hosting companies they probably have a wordpress installer and sandbox button in the CPanel.
I previously used NetObjects Fusion for 20 years, although it was last updated in 2015.
Then about a year ago I finally switched over to software that is actively maintained and has extensive resources (templates, etc.) available and reasonably priced:
WYSIWYG https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/
I took several months test driving a wide range of tools bedore settling on this one.
Speaking only for myself, you should probably ask a question like that of somebody under the age of 45.
Build yourself a Django app, which would make it easier for you to use plugins and start incorporating storefront features such as user profiles, payments processing, and other potential things.
I suggest Wordpress. I suggest the ‘upright’ theme (it’s simply and adjusts for smart phones). Here is a list of Wordpress plug-ins that has taken me years to converge to:
MUST HAVES:
SITE PERFORMANCE GRAPHS (aka ‘analytics’)
SENDING EMAILS TO SITE VISITORS:
ECOMMERCE:
MAYBE?:
ALSO NEEDED:
HTML & CSS are easy. Grid & Flex I am still learning.
You will find that there is no standard as it seems you can accomplish the samething multiple ways.
Try NoteTab. Much more then just a text editor or in helping in creating webpages. Open and along the bottom click on the HTML-CSS tab then click on from the left side: New HTML5 page so you can see a simplae layout.
Get the Lite version or Pro
https://www.notetab.com/download-now
Go here and use their Tryit editor from examples.
https://www.w3schools.com
Example of a layout. Modify then click on the Run button. Resize the browser window or move the center divider to see changes.
https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=tryresponsive_breakpoints
CSS Grid Layout Module
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_grid.asp
Terminology to start with:
HTML - CSS - Grid - Flex
Stay away from bootstrap. A big headache.
Learn HTML/CSS
http://html.net
HTML Codes, Editors, and Generators
https://www.html.am
Website Creation Process
https://www.quackit.com/create-a-website
A Complete Guide to Grid
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid
A Complete Guide to Flexbox
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox
Help sites:
Quackit
https://www.quackit.com
Online HTML Editor
https://www.quackit.com/html/online-html-editor
CSSPortal
https://www.cssportal.com
Post questions:
https://htmlforums.net
CSS Navigation Bar
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_navbar.asp
CSS Dropdown menu
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_dropdowns.asp
Creating Fluid Layouts & Images with CSS
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2015/12/07/creating-fluid-layouts-images-with-css.html#gs.zzpxqt
All About Floats
https://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats
Media Queries for Standard Devices
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/media-queries-for-standard-devices
Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide
https://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide
Styling Tables with CSS
https://www.elated.com/styling-tables-with-css
A Wordpress site using something simple like Divi Themes.
User friendly, easy to update, easy to *distribute* the updating to multiple admins if you like, easy to configure. Open source, free.
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Use wordpress blogging software, but instead of creating the blog, just use the page creation function.
I surf the internet, and the majority of big sites are clearly running Wordpress, and just using a specific template over it to make their site look unique.
Here is what you do - go to your host and install the Wordpress install, or ask them to do it. Then just start screwing with it to see how pages and menus work with the default template. Just write “Here I am,” to see how the text displays and where, for stuff like titles and bodies. It is very intuitive and you should pick it up quickly. Then look at the free templates out there, and find one which captures what you want the site to look like, and install it using the menu in the Wordpress backend to find your way to the templates page.
It all sounds very complicated, but nobody showed me anything, and I figured it out just by taking the first step of installing Wordpress and trying it out. Everything just revealed itself as I used it.
For Mac, you could look at RapidWeaver + a 3rd party RapidWeaver Template for the design.