Making my own website?

How can you not have the time for the easier and faster non coding side of web making programs? What you say just doesn't make sense to me. It still seems much faster and easier to just point and click what color, pic, etc you want rather than having to type a hundred letters to do the same.
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The choice of whether to use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Frontpage really comes to down to how advanced or how big your website is going to be. If you're planning on just making a simple home page with some text and a couple of links and some pictures, I would use Dreamweaver/Frontpage. If you want do something more advanced, like a company website or in your case a forum, it is probably best to do it "by hand". The main reason I say by hand is usually better is because it gives you more control over your website. Yes, its a lot faster to hammer out a site on Dreamweaver with some pointing and clicking, but try creating sites like this by pointing and clicking. Not going to happen. Also programs like this generate bad code that is really inefficient and doesn't validate.

I just find it hard to believe that Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage would make a website creation program that is incompatable with "safari"?
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Well yes they do. I'll try to explain it in a nutshell- There are standards to HTML that are supposed to be followed by the makers of browsers and people making websites. When Microsoft designed Internet Explorer, they did not follow these standards. Because of IE's huge share of the browser market, this causes everyone to design their websites and software so that it will look right in IE, and therefore not correct in browsers that follow these standards (Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.). Also because of this Dreamweaver/Frontpage tend to generate code that looks good in IE. Dreamweaver has improved over the years with generating better code, but Frontpage is pretty awful with it's tags:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

Stuff like this generated by these editors causes pages to not be rendered properly, screwing over a lot of people that might want to use your site.

I know this probably sounds really technical and confusing but I think that's what redonion was trying to get at.

Honestly for starting off on computers and web design, I don't think there is any problem with using Dreamweaver/Frontpage; the UI is appealing and more attractive than looking at code.
 
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