Can anyone recommend a diy website package?

[puddinghead]

I want to put together a pretty simple couple of pages initially for my new gardening business so that people can look me up and find out a bit more than I could fit on a leaflet. I want to get the website done first so then I can put myself on Freeindex and suchlike with a web address.

I've seen there are some template type sites (Vistaprint, Mr Site) that seem pretty reasonable to me, but should I be wary of anything? I also fiddled a bit with Wordpress but got a bit stuck.

I really can't fork out for a company to do it till I've got some clients!

webdwarf is free and will create you a simple website.

www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

For something more professional Dreamweaver is an excellent package, however Dreamweaver is a lot of work to learn. It would probably be simpler to pay some to a professional website for you. Dreamweaver is also quite expensive to buy.

I use coffeecup
my web designer gets annoyed that it sometimes garbles his beautiful java but it does HTML and CSS OK

Had a look at those mentioned - thanks - but, errm way too jargony and complicated for me I'm afraid. Just come across GBBO (Get British Business Online) and in 10 mins already got something underway - really user friendly. And it's all free for a year without giving any card details away.

Sounds good.

Did anyone reply to your recent leaflet drop?

I use mrsite.....it costs about £30 for a year, you get a totally idiotproof set up (it must be idiotproof I've managed to set up five websites with it!), it has lots of great features and you can update it very easily. Take a look at www.forheavenscake.co.uk or www.coach-and-courses.com to see what you can achieve quite easily
I hope this helps
Rus

Squares ace is good - very slick looking sites and easy to edit yourself.

Oops, that should be Squarespace. Bloody autocorrect.

Mr Site easypeasy www.carolinehowarthpr.com

weebly is brilliant - totally free and free hosting but you can do virtually anything and their support is absolutely brilliant
www.weebly.com

I used Getting British Business Online. The website is powered by Google. It took a lot of fiddling to get the hang of it but my site looks good for an amateur. If you want to look at my result, PM me and I will send you the link.

I would also recommend GBBO (Get British Business Online). Free, you can get a matching email address, and they have a range of templates to make it quicker and easier to get it all up and running. I got mine going and as I wanted it within a morning.

If paying is OK, then I am now using one.com - £9 per year, for a website, as many email addresses as you want linked to it, and really easy to use. It also has a live chat option if you want to do something extra and can't work out how to do it - real people who get back to you quickly. You can start with a dead simple template, start with as many or as few pages as you want, and changing things and adding pages is fairly intuitive.

This advice is from someone who is not good with computers, by the way. I couldn't get my keyboard to work and it turned out I hadn't plugged it in.... So am only recommending easy sites!