What website builder would you recommend?  

Mr site is fantastic, a takeaway package that does it all for you, basically you just have to enter your content. I had a mr site website, it was fantastic and i got on great with it and knew nothing about web design. But my site looked professional and worked a treat. Google mr site and it will give u all the help you need and good luck xx

Yeah, Mr Site is definitely very user friendly and has an easy to use interface for newbies.
Enjoy fella!

In order to help you with this....and trust me you want to know this now before you start. What kind of site you want? What kind of features do you want it to have? There are many types of out of the box web site kits out there... but they all have limitations and they all have strengths... this is why you need to know beforehand so you know which one plays more towards your end goal for your site.

Secondly you have to put some thought into this about if you are going to spend money to put this site somewhere you can call your own.. or are you doing it on some free site such as Yahoo's Geocities? This also will limit... or broaden what you are capable of doing.

Are you prepaired to try to learn some basic HTML and CSS? Not to do a whole site... but it helps in order to tweek things to get them to look the way you want sometimes.

Hope this helps. FYI I am a webmaster of my own site... if you would like to take a look at mine... add me as a friend :) and private message me to send you the link :)

I don't know of anything free (thats decent) but I use 2ip http://www.2ip.com
I have to admit that the first time i went there...I thought it was a scam...But it isnt...

Cost u 25 USD (not sure in canadian or anything...even though i am canadian I have american paypal...) 25 dollars for 100MB webspace for life (most places you pay monthly for like GB amounts of space) so you never have to pay again...and the domains (example: http://www.mylot.com) are 10 dollars for most of them for an entire year...

Now I thought it was a scam to but its good and the support is great...

They have a free web builder too that works wonderfully! :D (no coding at all...like u click things like "new text box" and stuff...super easy...)

Thanks,

Josh

Right I am split on this as when I first started out on the internet I learned to create websites using Dreamweaver. It is an amazing bit of kit which although costs a bit of money is well worth the investment if you want to go down the route of using software to build your sites. Once you get use to the menus it is easy to use and you will soon be knocking up a website with it. But as with any website building software it does teach you bad habits and you can end up falling in to some bad practices of web design with it. Plus you never fully understand the code it creates if you just use it.

The thing is I honestly recommend getting a few good books which cover html, css and maybe php as well and learn to build a website using these books and notepad on your pc. By doing this it may take a little longer to master but you will have a better idea how your web code works and be able to fix things when they go wrong as well as do things which you possibly wouldn't do with website software.

If you wanna have your website then there is very good deal for you. what if you get your website and that company gives you chance to earn from it. You will get domain name + hosting + 10 Email ids + website builder to build your website, even if you know nothing about building a website and more over give a chance to earn from home. Give it a try and you will find its really a good thing. msg me for more.

Beh surely as website builder i think you refer to software who generates html code on a visual or writing features too!!
So i think lincesed there are much as frontpage,dreamweaver and so on..but i guess license it will be expensive as in many cases...
So i tried a good open source software on this purpuse which it will work on windows,linux,mac os and it is called NVU!!
You can download it and try it if you like without license fee becaus eit is totally free and in many cases it will be smart to use to manage or build wesites also depends which kind of website and many other things but seeing that you are quite new on this probably this will be suitable for your needs!!

You download it for free here:
http://net2.com/nvu/

Man... Try "BlueVoda" web builder. All you have to do is just "Drag n Drop" anythings. I can't tell you much more about it. But i want you to experience it by your self. Find the software on google, yahoo, msn, whatever search engine. Its a totally free software. Once you installed that, look for their video tutorials (Help). You will master it in less that 1 hour... No Joke....