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Free programs that are good for making website templates?

Is there any free software out there that is free and is good for making website templates?

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1. If you're looking for a good, free "What you see is what you get" web template program, you could try KompoZer: http://www.kompozer.net/ It is supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux. As per their description: "KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. "
2. Notepad? Lol, seriously though, if you download some free website templates from the net (www.freewebsitetemplates.com), all you have to do is right-click the css file and go to open with and select notepad, and do the same with the html file. Then, you can easily change around things such as the colour of backgrounds or fonts and the placing and size of certain parts of the page, simply by changing the values. For example: body { background-color:red; color:blue; } This makes the background colour red and the font colour blue, you can go right ahead and change these to green, purple, orange, black, whatever you want. They may also be in this form: color:#FF0000 This example is red. These things are specified in the css file, but to know what applies to which parts of the site, look in the html file for the "classes". A section of the page is defined by it's "class" and this is how you will find these sections in the css file. In the html file, if you open it in your browser and see a small box with text inside saying "blah blah blah", by opening the file in notepad, you should be able to find the "blah, blah, blah" and somewhere above it something along the lines of <div class="name of the class here">. The main navigation bar may have a class name of "mainnav" and this would show up as ".mainnav" in the css file and be followed by all the aspects if it within the {}. Then, you can replace all the images with your own, by putting them in the images folder and put in your own content. Bear in mind though, that if you're going to use your own pics, it's easier to just name the images the same things as the images used in the original template, so that you don't need to change anything. If you're images have different file extensions (e.g. originals were jpegs, yours are gifs) you're just gonna have to find the names of the files in your html and css files and change the name. Good luck, if this is too complicated then sorry, but I was able to create my own website from scratch using notepad alone after being taught the basic concepts, so perhaps you can too.