Whats a good free web hosting site that i can use my FrontPage-created site with?
well free webhosting is not recommended because once the bandwidth gets over people can not visit your website The best one is hostmonster webhosting since they offer unlimited bandwidth and free domain with their webhosting package.I also like the fact that on every signup they give you $100 credits to advertise your website with the google & yahoo search engines for free. http://www.hostmonster.com/track/hostmonsterwebhosting/
What is the best free program to use to design a website?
It depends what you want to do and how technical you want to get. You need to think about the design of your website and that is done either using a graphics program or just plain old fashioned pen and paper. Take a look around some sites - you'll find a simple design usually looks more professional. As to creating and editing your site... There are things called content management systems, which includes WordPress, Mambo, Joomla! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content... - which lets non-technical users put together a site very quickly. These programs also depend on having PHP and MySQL installed on the server they run from which may be a problem. If you're more interested in learning the underlying HTML, CSS, XML or whatever, then a WYSIWYG editor is a good place to start, FrontPage Express was given away with some versions of Windows and although old may be still useful. - http://www.google.com/search?q=download+... NVU is free http://www.download.com/Nvu/3000-10247_4... but is now superceeded by KompoZer - http://kompozer.net/ which produces W3C compliant code. Ther is also http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/ which I like. These WYSIWYG editors are good in that the split view (the screen shows both the code and the design) shows instantly what changes to the code does to the design. There's an ongoing and largely boring debate (as in my browser is better than yours and Linux vs Windows) among developers as to whether you should use WYSIWYG tools or just use a text editor to prodcue the page codes. Once you know a little CSS, JavaScript, HTML then using a text editor can be quicker, but if you're a beginner you may find it extremely frustrating. As for the advertising, Googles AdSense seems easiest to use - https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/
What are the disadvantages and advantages of using dreamweaver over notepad?
You can make a sweet website with notepad so there is no need to use Dreamweaver.
How do you open a PHP file and what program is required to open it?
What do you mean when you say that you want to open PHP files?A PHP file is something that is compiled on a server and the output is generated and displayed in HTML.So, by saying "open PHP file", if you meant that you want to edit the file then this can be done easily by using any text editor (for e.g. Notepad on windows). Obviously there are many highly functional IDE's available to program PHP files as well. If by saying "Open PHP file" you meant to run a PHP page then basically you need to run it in your browser. Now to run this page in browser you will need to install a PHP server (Apache server actually). An easy way is to install a full web development package like XAMPP or WAMP which sets you up with a functioning server that supports PHP, MYSQL and few other utilities very easily. After the setup is done you will have a directory of XAMPP or WAMP whichever you have installed. Find the www folder and paste your PHP files in this directory. You can have directories within this directory as well. For e.g.: If I have a project directory named "MyProject" within which I have a file named "index.php". Then I would paste this project directory into the www directory which lies within the WAMP directory. Now you have your server installed. You have your file ready. So lets start the server. This can be done just by running the application (XAMPP or WAMP) you installed. Once the server is ready, it is live and accessible on http://localhost/. Considering this is your local machine. So a localhost now actually refers to the www directory that we talked about earlier. Any immediate page that lies in this directory can be accessed by just refering the page name after the link. For e.g.: If the localhost directory consist of a php file named index.php then it can be accessed using- http://localhost/index.php . If we consider our older example where we have now placed a directory of our project named MyProject then this project can be accessed through http://localhost/MyProject/index.php Hope you got this!Just FYI, an index page need not be referred on purpose. On servers (especially on Linux servers. Also depends on server config.) a default page in a directory is considered to be index page. So, http://localhost/MyProject/index.php can be accessed even if you just open http://localhost/MyProject/. ;-)