Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Most web site builders are proprietary tools provided by web hosting companies which cater to people who wish to build their own websites without learning the technical aspects of web page production. The person who wishes to use the website builder typically signs up with the company -- most offer free trial periods -- and chooses the design that best suits his or her purpose. Some companies' tools allow the user to see the source code, that is, the HTML behind the page he is building. Many do not, meaning that only certain designated areas on the page can be modified. Usually, these areas are: headers, text and some graphic elements.

The site builders currently in use are Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage, Yahoo! SiteBuilder or Adobe ColdFusion.

Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is the industry's most advanced site building environment for creating interactive websites with digital and mobile content. It is a set of multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Adobe Dreamweaver is the industry standard for advanced web publishing. It is a web development application originally created by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in 2005. Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JavaServer Pages, and PHP.

Microsoft FrontPage (later full name Microsoft Office FrontPage) delivers professional quality web sites but has complications with browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. A Macintosh version was also released in 1998. Microsoft FrontPage has since been replaced by Microsoft Expression Web and Sharepoint Designer, which were released in December 2006.

Yahoo! SiteBuilder is a basic site builder that comes free with the Yahoo! web hosting plans.

At last, ColdFusion is designed for advanced web applications (namely, forms Flash). ColdFusion is an application server and software development framework used for the development of computer software in general, and dynamic web sites in particular. In this regard, ColdFusion is a similar product to Microsoft ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages or PHP. ColdFusion was the first amongst these technologies to provide the developer the capability of creating dynamic websites that were attached to a backend database.

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