Moonfruit.com

[Ian Mac]

I currently use this for building web portals for DJ's and Artists

Does anyone know of a better one with more functionality?

 

[BizGurl]

You could try wix.com...which also gives you the option of using your own domain names, change layout, or build your own design from scratch etc...would say its really good for a free website builder. Hth

 

[fisicx]

Don't use wix - it's the biggest pile of poo after moonfruit. Both create flash website which fail all the usability, accessibility and seo tests you can think off.

 

[crossdaz]

I currently use this for building web portals for DJ's and Artists

Does anyone know of a better one with more functionality?

wordpress.com for a free instant site
wordpress.org for a free site you host yourself

If the learning curve looks steep then start climbing - it's not as hard as you think and well worth the effort.

 

[Ian Mac]

I'm actually a very quick learner...

Thanks people.

what about other software for non flash website builders?

 

[fisicx]

Mr Site seems to do a pretty good job but as suggested I'd go with wordpress - really easy to use once you get the hang of it.

 

[Ian Mac]

can you implement your own flash animations on wordpress?

 

[fisicx]

can you implement your own flash animations on wordpress?

Not sure what you mean? You can use one of the many flash plugins to add the animations but it won't build the flash files for you. In any case there are far better ways of doing animations, jquery is quite astounding and very SE friendly. Flash is still the devil's child and should only be used when absoluterly necessary (ideally never).

Remember as well that many DJ's and artist will be using mobile devices and flash support is pretty flakey.

 

[Hedgie]

I use Moonfruit for my site and to be honest although its a flash site I find it a pretty good website builder considering the price of it.

 

[Jeff FV]

Can I recommend a book:

Sam's Teach Yourself HTML & CSS

Even if you don't want to build the site yourself from scratch, learning a bit of HTML and CSS can save you a huge amount of heartache, whatever platform you ultimately choose to use.

Jeff

 

[watkinsemma]

There are couple of website builders that use HTML instead of Flash evisoft.com is downloadable while reason8.com is online. They don't have quite so many features built as the flash sites but you can plug in other functionality by just copying and pasting code.

Good luck