Open source tools were typically developed to the standards and made fewer exceptions for the then-dominant Internet Explorer's deviations from the standards. Compliance has improved over time, but many professionals still prefer to write optimized markup by hand.

As the industry moved towards W3C standards, Dreamweaver and others were criticized for not being compliant. For example, Microsoft released FrontPage in November 1995.īy 1998, Dreamweaver had been established as the industry leader however, some have criticized the quality of the code produced by such software as being overblown and reliant on HTML tables.

Over time, software was created to help design web pages. The first website, manually written in HTML, was created on August 6, 1991. (These are often considered to be ' website design software', rather than 'website builders'.)

Application software software that runs on a personal computing device used to create and edit the pages of a web site and then publish these pages on any host.

Some services allow the site owner to use alternative tools ( commercial or open-source) - the more complex of these may also be described as content management systems. These are typically intended for service users to build their own website.

online proprietary tools provided by web hosting service companies.

Website builders are tools that typically allow the construction of websites without manual code editing.

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