I''ve spent almost five years with HTML, so I''m pretty sure I''ve got it "mastered". Obviously, I find that writing the code out yourself to be the easiest method. On the other hand, I''ve never really used a program to make a website.
If you insist on making the page with a program, I''ve worked a little with FrontPage and HotDog.. they seem alright. I don''t really have anything to compare those to.

I would strongly suggest learning HTML, because it''s extremely easy. (I was making my own pages in a month or so after having hardly no programming experience).

Find yourself some easy tutorials to read, or ask some questions. I recommend ProgrammingTutorials.com or HTMLGoodies.com. HTML Goodies doesn''t really have any tutorials, but is written by one man, who is very expierenced with web pages.

If you decide to learn HTML and have any questions in the future, go ahead and email me at ichimaera@hotmail.com.

I prefer writing it all out myself in notepad, but if you must use a good program like Dreamweaver to get a prototype up quickly. Then go through the HTML and take out all the crap and add in text, links, etc. Either way, you gotta know HTML, it''s so easy though.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Notepad, but go for a syntax highlighting prog if you want, i personally haven''t tried it.

quote:
If MS could only increase the size of files it can load,
(it has a 64k limit?), and not touch anything else, then
I would love it even more.

If your web pages are more than 64K, you got a serious problem on your hands. I realize you''re probably just talking about regular text files though.

quote:
I still can''t believe people are actually recommending Notepad. That has got to be the most basic, featureless program out there. You can make a program exactly like notepad but defaults the saving and opening file extension to .htm (in otherwords, a better Notepad) in about 5 minutes in MFC.

I''m sorry but that has to be the gayest thing I ever heard in my life. If you can''t hit File->Save As, and then type "index.html", you have a serious problem. Make a whole freakin'' "special" program just to automatically save as an html file, hahahaha.




"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams."
- Willy Wonka

I usually start with Netscape Composer (Unlike Microsoft products, it generates a lot less bloatd code - I learned that when importing tables from Word once), then maintain it in a text editor.

And learn tables!


"Whoever performs only his duty is not doing his duty." --Bahya ibn Pakuda

quote:
I''m sorry but that has to be the gayest thing I ever heard in my life. If you can''t hit File->Save As, and then type "index.html", you have a serious problem. Make a whole freakin'' "special" program just to automatically save as an html file, hahahaha.

BitBlt, apparently you missed my point entirely. I didn''t say you should write a whole program just to save as .htm, what I was saying is how unbelievably easy it is to create a better html editor than Notepad. Hell, there''s hundereds of free small html editors that are much better than Notepad.

If people want to use Notepad that''s fine, but to actually recommend a program that has no html features whatsoever to a newbie is crazy.

- Houdini