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Why Not Just Use a Web Page Builder?
If you have gone through many sites, and many hosting provider, may be you've seen a ton of different hosting provider telling you that you don't need to get your hands dirty with HTML and CSS when you can use a Web page editor.

So what's the problem?
The problem, really-is that every Web page editor we have tried is designed to create pages for a particular Web browser and has at best a limited understanding of the rich, complex, evolving HTML language. When the web page editor try to do more and more, the web page editor become complicated, some time the web editor even have to come out with its own script that try to help you solve simple task. However, most of the time it just make simple things simple and make complex thing impossible.

Use Microsoft Front Page 2003, for example, and your site will almost certainly look best in Internet Explorer (a Microsoft product). It's a subtle but insidious problem. One clue to this lurking problem is that surveys of Web developers invariably demonstrate that almost all the most popular Web sites are coded by hand, not with fancy page-building systems.

Many web sites that looks different in the different browsers. This may be because each browser supports HTML, XHTML in different ways; however, it is improving nowadays. It's why the mantra of all good Web designers is "test, test, test." In fact, if you're going to get serious about Web development, I would suggest that you consider a setup like I have: Before you officially say that you're done with a project, check all the pages with the two most recent major releases of the two biggest Web browsers (FireFox and IE) on both a Linux and a Windows system.

Furthermore, I would say that web design by HTML, coding, CSS is actually much more efficient and easier than to learning the web page builder it self. Well, at first it may seems easy, but the enhancement and modification will change your mind immediately. And some more when you want to find out "how to do XXX" with the web builder, you will found that the resources is limited, and you may even get charge for asking the support. It is actually night mare!