WYSIWYG programs

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Hi guys,

I'm a bit of a novice, but i'm learning. I have no knowledge of any programming langugaes, HTML included. But I'm looking for a good WYSIWYG editor. I have Dreamweaver UltraDev.

What I need is something that will let me incorporate things like a classifieds system, forums, and other complicate stuff like membership sign ons and such. I wouldn't mind using PHPBB (I think this site is useing it) and PHPCA as they are open source and free :) But I want to be ble to start making a website, have these things on my site and be able to stuff around with the lay out of them, etc. BEFORE putting it on the web.

I'm pretty sure Dreamweaver can't do that? Is there anything out there that will let me use dynamic things like this. Something that a novice can use to implement them.

Well, yeah, basically a WYSIWYG editor that lets me put on forums, classifieds systems, memebrship system with ease. And format them easily...

[TiGGi]

Even notepad can do that if you know what you're doing, so Dreamweaver is just fine. There is not software that will edit the layout the way you want it expecialy when it comes to sites like phpbb. These site are full of code and when edited they don't look like in browser. So you'll have to do is change files and upload to your site to see how they turn out. Just make sure you have clean backups of the files~

[nitrexoxide]

This site uses vBulletin, but I would reccomend phpBB2, I use it :)

[pcthug]

Those Content Managemnet Systems like PhpBB are constructed with lines and lines of server-side code. If you seriously want to format and customize these CMS I suggest you start learning how they work. As the majority of them are written in PHP (http://www.php.net), I would start with that. See:
PHP: Documentation (www.php.net/docs.php)
w3schools PHP Tutorial (www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp)
Zend Technologies - PHP Tutorials for Absolute Beginners (www.zend.com/php/beginners/)

[carousel30]

This might not be a HUGE help, but since a lot of the more modern CMS-based sites have switched completely to CSS-based layout, it sounds like you're using a fairly old version of Dreamweaver (I don't believe UltraDev has been available for several years now). Dreamweaver 8's support for CSS is much improved, though still leaves a LITTLE to be desired.

It might help, however, to be able to see a few things formatted properly. Though you're still going to have to sift through a lot of code that might seem unfamiliar at first.