I prefer to hand-code.  That means learning HTML and CSS and typing the code
in line-by-line.  It sounds tougher, but it's not, really, as you learn the
foundation of your pages.  This means you can debug them far more easily
than a person who only knows a WYSIWYG system.

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get.  It refers to an editor that allows
you to place elements on a canvas without knowing the underlying HTML code.

If you do prefer to use a WYSIWYG, try to learn the code anyway - it'll make
a far better web designer of you...:).  The best on the market, and the only
one I recommend, is Macromedia's Dreamweaver
(http://macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/?promoid=home_prod_dw_082403).

For hand-coding, I like EditPlus under Windows and nEdit under Linux, but I
write other types of code, too.  An excellent starting tool is HTML-Kit
(http://chami.com/html-kit/), which I believe is still free.  Homesite can
be found at Macromedia.com and integrates with Dreamweaver (which also has a
hand-coding view, by the way).

All this is stacked toward a Windows environment...:).  Under Linux,
Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/) is supposed to be a good HTML
editor, although I haven't used it.  Not sure about Mac apps.

D



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Butler" <pammyb4(at)hotmail.com>


What is the best Web Design program to use?
Pam

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