Unlike other web builders that can be launched and used online, the desktop web builder must be installed on a PC before you can create pages with them. The fact that you will need it on your PC does not take away the speed and flexibility with which you can create websites. Desktop web builders have the same capability of quick web page deployment as their online versions. Many of them also have in built ftp programs that will allow you to upload your website onto your servers and have your website running in an hour.
We take look at the most common and versatile web builders which are also called desktop html editors.
Adobe Creative Suite is another desktop html editor worthy of consideration. This software has advanced image capabilities and rightly serves as both a web page builder and a graphics editor. If you needed to manage images quickly and deploy them onto the web, this may be an obvious choice.
Adobe GoLive is a high quality editor for image intensive websites. It has an interface similar to Photoshop. Infact, the software incorporates some of the powerful image processing and editing functions of Photoshop, one of the world’s leading image editing software.
Expression Web comes from Microsoft. As expected of the software giant, the software comes with several easy to manage templates and tools to help web designers create several pages in less time. Expression Web will suit website owners seeking to create web content for hosting on Windows Servers.
Microsoft Expression Studio is Microsoft’s version of Adobe Creative Suite. The program is very powerful for graphics and will give you outstanding and colorful images for use on your website.
Homesite is another website creator with utmost simplicity. The console is graphical and you can easily upload your content to the web trough its inbuilt ftp.The software is very small and highly recommended for designers with small capacity PCs.