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Wow guys, thanks so much for all the replies. I think this post will probablyl help a lot of people, not just this frustrated website builder-wanna be. I remember the first site I built on Homestead.com with their site builder. I thought it was AWESOME. You could add borders and dividers just by inserting shapes, you could have all kinds of colors, all kinds of cool fonts, make really cool logos by messing with their templates colors and textures. I was simple, easy and viewed well in the end. I could make a really cool site in one day. Maybe I screwed myself at that beginning stage thinking all site builders were that way. Then I started building with FrontPage and could build cool sites but they never looked right after publishing and I would always get people griping about how much garbage there was in the coding which, as a newbie, took me a while to figure out, let alone the extension issue. I will stick with CSB and work with it to see what I can come up with. Ahhh, I can see the hours in my life being sucked away as we speak. Thanks again for all the help. I can see that it won't matter if I need help, I know where I can get it. Tammy Rock Sign

Wow, I really loved Sami's site. It's just like something I might have made. Looks like I will have to do a lot of reading to be able to do something like that. I just got really frustrated when I tried even using one of their templates and it wouldn't put my image where I wanted it to, and went all funky on me when I wanted to change the wording, lol! Thanks for the input, I have bookmarked both sites.

I started building websites years ago so I guess I'm not that much of a newbie. BUT I've built them using free sites where the building software was included. They were usually so easy, I thought this web site building thing was a snap. I used Frontpage 98 years ago then kept having trouble with hosts not allowing the extensions (which doesn't allow some things to work??) and it also added lots of gobbledy gook which I would be highly chastised for from gurus. I recently used a software called WebEasy 5 and it was, like it said, a very easy software. I built my own logos, drew graphics, added navigation, borders, and it was basically easy and quite fun. Then the trouble began when I tried to upload the website I built. For some reason, I could not upload the entire site at one time. I could upload a few files at a time but it would still either disconnect or stall. I am assuming for quickness in the website coming up for visitors, it chopped up my images into separate files and filled my public-html folder with tons of files and made it really hard to organize. I also wouldn't allow me to save the images I built in the site so that I could further edit them with other software. It was suggested that I try cutesite builder. I downloaded the trial version and I guess I must be missing something because...there is very little I have control over. It doesn't seem to be a very...visual program. You can't be very creative or original and I can't stand using the pre-designed templates. I don't see any drawing capability, I even put one of my own images in there and then couldn't move it..I was completely confused. What happened to drag and drop...?? Anyway, I guess we all have our own opinions as to site building software. I was hoping for one software to handle all my needs, image editing, drawing, themes and so on. (I still use Image Composer that came with Frontpage, it's a very very easy to use image editing software) If I stick with Cutesite Builder, (it must be good if it's so recommended) does everyone else use other programs for their logos, image editing, drawing and so on? Do I actually have to use other programs to create backgrounds, navigation buttons and so on?

I will definitely look into that. This program was given to me by a girlfriend so I used it. I've always had a problem with finding a wysiwyg program that anyone would recommend with any confidence. Thanks!

I'm curious. I would assume, and by the post numbers I think I may be somewhat right, but why isn't the help forum given more status? When I go to forums, it's usually for help. I had to hunt to find the support group of forums, then it seems it's broken down oddly. I would think that support could easily be divided into more easily perused if it was broken down into more sections. Uploading, images, and so on. It seems that most of the questions are lumped into Open Discussion because people can't find an appropriate place.

Ok, after continually trying different things, I still kept getting the same error. I wrote to VCOM, the software developer and he tells me it's my host's problem. It was never a problem with what I entered in the log in fields, I had that correct. I decided to download an ftp program and upload it that way. I highlighted all the files I wanted transfered and when I uploaded, again, it would quit after about 10 files and sometimes even disconnect me. Sooo, I uploaded each file, one by and and eventually got it uploaded. BUT WHAT A PAIN! Could this have something to do with my internet service? Could it be that my dsl service I have will only allow me to upload so much at a time? It would often even disconnect me after uploading 1 file. (warning, stupid question next): When I build my website with Web Easy, it saves all the files in one folder, with nothing in sub-folders. If I were to organize my files in my public-html file, would that screw with my site?

I built a quick website using Webeasy5 professional. Everytime I try and upload the site, I get an error "Your request has been denied by the server or the server has not responded in the specified timeout period." I have increased the timeout period but this isn't really the problem I don't think. I will admit to knowing just enough about building and publishing websites that I'm frequently frustrated. Just when I get one field figured out, it takes me 2 days to figure out what goes in the next one.... It seems that all tutorials are completely different, call different objects with different names and mention objects that you should have but have no idea where they are...ugh.