By John on
4/8/2009 9:05 AM
There are times to hire a professional, especially for the more complex sites, but there are now a number of easy-to-use web site creation tools that do a good job for basic sites - for free!
While designers will use
Adobe's Dreamweaver or
Microsoft's Expression Web products for ultimate design control over their websites, experience shows you better have a big (time) budget if you want to create a site from scratch, much less to keep it maintained.
More efficient is to use one of the hundreds of Web Application Frameworks (many mislabeled as Content Management Systems) out there. See
CMSMatrix.org or
Wikipedia for the best listings of these I've seen.
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