Web design and development has come a long way since the early days when everything had to be hand coded, line by line. The time, headaches, and large amounts of caffine consumption that was required to build standard web sites has turned into a process that is a lot more user friendly through the use of WYSIWYG web building utilities which allow almost anyone, of various skill levels, to build a web site for personal or professional use.
What is WYSIWYG?
The term WYSIWYG stands for a type of visual editing known as “What You See Is What You Get”. Essentially what this means is that instead of designing a web site using complex code, you are visually creating the site through various built in components or drag and drop features that are very similar to the sort of tools that you are familiar with from standard desktop publishing software. This way, you know exactly what your web site will look like as you are building it.
WYSIWYG web editors can range from the very simple and basic with fill in the blank type of set up to more powerful, feature rich software that gives you complete control over your web site and includes all of the bells and whistles such as form builder and easy roll over image editing.
Where Can You Find WYSIWYG Web Editing Software:
Finding WYSIWYG web design programs is very simple. Many web hosts already provide a site builder service as part of their hosting package. Homestead and Freewebs are two great examples of this (see more information about their site builders below). You can also buy stand a lone software that will allow you to upload to any host. The features, skill level requirements and prices can range on these programs from very basic beginner level software at around $20 to more powerful, advanced user programs that can run for around $100.
