There are many options when it comes to actually "building" your site, most web communities offer web based publishing tools that require no downloading. While these often are capable of creating nice sites they are not very robust in allowing the author the freedom to creative web sites with much pizzazz. When I first got started I used the instant publishers offered by AOL, Free Yellow and others, these are often great places to get started. Once your ready to take the next step you may want to try some of the free software offers listed below. If you use aol you can click this link for a host of free publishing tools.

Microsoft is a great software resource site and offers a "free download area" check it out here.

With a little searching you will be able to find plenty of "free ware" programs along with many "trial versions". I have narrowed you search and found this site that contains close to a dozen "free-ware or trail versions" click here to learn more.

Finally, WebDeveloper is a fantastic site that offers everything for the web master. This site will be an endless resource in building a site and learning HTML.