Question: are there free website builders that are better than yahoo? 

Answer: Yes, but only if you are willing to learn HTML (which really isn't hard)  www.htmlkit.com has a great free HTML editor.\nOtherwise you are stuck with crap HTML and only what Yahoo (or the other software) wants you do to.  You can't be creative.
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