I have Front Page, but I really don't like the Navigation and Layout on there, so I use some templates from Microsoft Word.

I used MS FrontPage 2000 to create a web site and found it fairly easy to use. Some of the more exotic features use Server Extensions, which mean that some Microsoft software has to be running on the server. My ISP does not use these, so I kept it all simple. One tip I was given was to put the text and graphics into invisible tables to ensure that it appeared in the correct places when viewed on any browser.

If you would like to see some interesting pictures have a look in the galleries at our club's website created with MS FrontPage 2000.

Sue, I completely agree with you, just typing in the code is a lot simpler than using software that does it for you, I like to have control of the exact code of my page. Also, this makes the web pages a lot easier to edit.

Nice site and photographs Biggles.

With WYSIWYG editors you end up using a mixture of writing code (or at least inserting chunks of pre-written code) and the 'What You See Is What You Get' method. There are usually three views within the editor. These are:

1. 'Edit' where you insert and edit tables graphics and text.

2. 'Source' where the code can be seen and written into, so there is control of the exact code.

3. 'Preview' this shows the results of page building as a browser will display them. You can usually opt to see it in two browsers if you have them installed on the computer.

If you are worried about spaces or unnecessary tags taking up overhead you can use one of the HTML shrinking programs. These will reduce the file sizes of pages by a number of kilobytes so that they load faster. The only disadvantage of these programs is that when you view the code after they have done their work, there are NO spaces anywhere. For this reason editing in Notepad would be difficult, if not impossible. A WYSIWIG editor will sort that out if further editing is needed. Then it can be re-shrunk. I haven't bothered using a shrinker on my pages recently but it does work.

It's all what you get used to I suppose but I think there are some good advantages to using WYSIWYG editors.

I don't use Frontpage because at the time I was thinking of using it, things didn't show up the same in every browser. My goal was to have websites that all computers can enjoy - not just 'optimized for...' ones.

Plus - the size of the pages is larger when you use Frontpge as it adds 'junk coding'.

Well, also, MSWord has a bunch of different templates, like Simple Web Page (which I like the best). It says on MSWord that to publish your webpage, you have to go to Accessories, Internet Tools, and "Web Publishing Wizard". Could somebody give me a guide through the WPW?

Well, I've finally decided, I've (or rather the staff of WWN) chosen Bravenet. The WWN forum mods and admins are going to make a website for Harry Potter. Thanks for your help!