Website dev help

[Quzar]

So I've got someone who wants me to make them a website. The most I've ever done in this area was html in notepad, some of yahoo's old wysiwyg geocities editor, and a year of school projects with Frontpage (2000 or 2002). This lady wants me to set up a pay-per-minute/subscription based streaming webcam site. I've found several packages that do exactly that, but definetly need advice on the actual page creation aspect (I really really don't want to try and do it in notepad).

So, can anyone suggest a free IDE for such things?

If anyone has experience with any packages to create such a site, please speak up as well.

Thanks a bunch guys.

[curt_grymala]

Unfortunately, I still have little-to-no experience with webcam sites, but I can recommend a decent editor for you, if you are using Linux.

BlueFish is a good code editor (for more than just HTML) with code snippets, etc. built into it. It doesn't have any WYSIWYG capabilities, though, if you're looking for that.

[Sir Savant]

You can install Dreamweaver 8 in Linux under Wine, and it works great. Wine-Doors will auto-configure things for you, but unfortunately the site is down? Probably someone forgot to pay a bill.

Kompozer also works ok as WYSIWYG, but removes a lot of formatting so be warned that you'll need to format it if you ever decide you want to look at how the html works.

[Quzar]

I'll look around at Dreamweaver a bit. I am exclusively running Windows XP though, so other such nix tools won't be all that helpful. Thanks, I'll keep searching.

[curt_grymala]

I'll look around at Dreamweaver a bit. I am exclusively running Windows XP though, so other such nix tools won't be all that helpful. Thanks, I'll keep searching.

Dreamweaver takes a lot of getting used to, but it's actually a very nice program. Be careful with DW's script snippets, though, as they're rather outdated and cumbersome. The only problem I have with using Dreamweaver for personal stuff is the prohibitive price. Other than that, I would have no qualms using Dreamweaver outside of work.