Free Tools
Here are some free tools that we recommend:
One of the simplest ways to have a website with Yen 9 is to create a
blog using a free (and easy to use) software program called
Thingamablog. It is available at:
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/.
If a blog approach will work for you this is one of the easiest
ways to get your site up quickly.
If you need to manipulate photos (make them smaller so they will
display fast on the web) try a free program called Irfan View
http://www.irfanview.com/.
There are other programs out there and most of them work well. This one
is free, easy to use and has a lot of power.
Creating traditional "web pages" can be done a number of ways. Most
geeks would not recommend creating your web pages using Microsoft Word,
but it can be done. In the same way Microsoft Publisher can create your
web pages for you. Such
programs tend to create "bloated" pages. They tend to add unnecessary
code which makes the files bigger and slightly slower
to display. However, if you are familiar with these programs or any
other programs that can save documents as html files then they will
work. Open Office is a free "equivalent" to Microsoft Word (and more)
is available at
http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html).
If you do not have something you are already familiar with to create
web pages, then we recommend Kompozer. It is free, easy to use and is
powerful. You can download it at:
http://www.kompozer.net/.
