Below I'll review and compare several web editors.
1. XSitePro 
Recommended for beginners and for internet marketers
XSite Pro is especially great for beginners because it doesn't require a steep learning curve.
XsitePro is not as powerful as Dreamweaver, but you can create pages easily. It will help you jump start with your web design and internet marketing. If you want to create EASY fast web sites with less than 100 pages, XSitePro is excellent. (You can create larger sites but they are slower to load).
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I recommend XSitePro for beginners with limited web design experience. Here's why:
- The learning curve is low with this easy-to-use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
- XsitePro has been created for internet marketers to help them make money easier.
- It can save you a lot of time. Builds a lot of pages fast. Great for pumping out information sites and niche sites.
- One of the best features about XSitePro is that it will go through your web pages and analyze them for search engine optimization. Then it produces a checklist of the things you need to do to make your website optimized for the search engines. Even a newbie can a PR4 or PR5 within weeks with XsitePro.
- XsitePro is great to get started fast with the easy updating of a small- medium site under 80 pages. You can create small to medium sites instantly with limited web design experience.
- You can upload your web site to a server from the software itself - no need to use FTP software.
- It is easy to add forms, autoresponders, video and audio etc. with other programs you might use. The pages all link together.
- Create popups and popunders easily.
- Build site map that automatically updates when adding pages.
- You can change the layout on all pages fast.
- Sood support network of technical help and suppliers for add-ons if required.
- XsitePro comes with an extensive user manual, tutorial and training videos.
- Less expensive than Dreamweaver.
Great for creating with niche sites and mini sites that you want to be able to tweak quickly. You can create a portfolio of these sites really quickly.
Who's Xspro for?
If you want to be a professional web designer, XSitePro is not for you. Use Dreamweaver instead.
If you are a beginning internet marketer who wants to get started fast and wants to make money, XsitePro is great because of its ease of use and its built-in SEO tools.
Even if you are an intermediate Dreamweaver users that is an internet marketer, you may consider using XSitePro in addition to Dreamweaver, because it will save you time and help you create sites faster.
If you are interested in producing quick and simple sales page type web sites, then you can't go wrong with XsitePro.
I highly recommend it for the beginner and beginning internet marketer.
Price: $197
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2. Dreamweaver CS3 399
Recommended for professionals and advanced users - Not recommended for newbies.
Dreamweaver is by far the preferred software for professional web designers. It's the most powerful web design program on the market. The program is also up to date with the best interfaces and templates. Dreamweaver has support for ALL tech including PHP, Mysql. The CSS support of the new CS3 version is the best.
Disadvantages: Dreamweaver requires a steep learning curve and it is expensive. Dreamweaver is too sophisticated and complicated for newbies and most intermediate designers. If you're a non-techie or beginner, you'll get frustrated with Dreamweaver If you don't want to spend the time learning Dreamweaver, or have a low frustration tolerance, get Xsitepro, because it's much more user friendly.
I recommend Dreamweaver for professional web designers and advanced users only.
More info at www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/
FrontPage
FontPage was easier than Dreamweaver for beginners to design a site, but the code wasn't clean at all. FrontPage generated redundant and messy code, and all kinds of user UNfriendly scripting.
As a web designer, when someone asks me to revise a web site that was designed in FrontPage, I turn the work down because I run into too many incompatibilities. I either totally redesign the site from scratch in Dreamweaver or I won't work on it.
FrontPage used to be popular for beginners and was hated by professional designers. Stay away from old FrontPage versions.
Expression Web
There is a new Studio Suite replacing FrontPage, called Expression Web. Microsoft dropped the name "FrontPage" entirely and is promoting Expression Web as a complete new application.
I have not tried Express Web but my research indicates that it is very limited and strictly designed for ASP and Windows based server environments. No PHP. Unfriendly to Unix environments.
$299 individually; $99 when upgrading from FrontPage to Expression Web. More information at http://www.microsoft.com/Expression/products/overview.aspx
