What wysiwyg editor to recommend to a non-coder making a website?

Question

I have a friend who now has a domain name, and he wants to put some content up. I know that hand-coding is reccomended, but I'm unable to do the site and they can't and won't learn html. Looking around this site it seems that wysiwyg editors are deviations from the "pure path" of html, but I'm just looking for something to give a buddy a quickstart.

I would like an editor that is free, web-based or not. I know there's joomla and kompozer, plus tons more. What would you recommend with a quick learning curve for throwing a site together?

thanks guys :D

Answer 1

I recommend just throwing Wordpress up - it fits a lot of needs and has themes. Plus, it's an easy install on most hosting accounts with Fantastico or other built-in tools.

Answer 2

I know a guy who did the company website using MS Word.
Quick learning curve :)

Nobody cared about the HTML as it looked really great.

Can be ok for your friend :)

Answer 3

Make a really sweet ASCII page using nothing but <pre> tags and your keyboard. In notepad of course.