What program/where to learn how to build websites?

[PoPPeR]

Are programs like dreamweaver or frontpage good for a n00b website builder? Where are some good places where I can learn how to use various programs or HTMl help or graphic design?

 

[KeyserSoze]

Use Notepad. And by that, I mean, leard how to do straight HTML first. It's not that hard. Just go to Google, and type in HTML Tutorials.

Frontpage is VERY EASY to create web pages. But it's HTML is sooooooooo bad, and it's mostly IE proprietary HTML. Although, I don't think it's bad tho for making changes to existing pages. Dreamweaver is a real professionals tool. It can do a lot, and creates nice clean HTML.

So, to review:
Learn HTML
Don't use FrontPage
Use Dreamweaver, but it's expensive. (If you are in school, you might get this for a discount.)



KeyserSoze

 

[manwithplan]

webmonkey - great tutorials on just about everything.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: manwithplan
webmonkey - great tutorials on just about everything.

Webmonkey has always been the best IMO.

And DO use a tool like Dreamweaver, as you can code the HTML and actually see the result at a touch of a "refresh" button. It makes learning code much more efficient.

 

[notfred]

Don't use Notepad. If you want to get a plain text editor, at least get one that recognizes unix endlines instead of drawing stupid little squares. Notepad is the worst text editor ever.

 

[DJCnut]

w3schools has great web tutorials.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Best text editor is EditPlus.

For beginners, I highly recommend FrontPage.

But once you get better or start working with client and server side code, Dreamweaver is the way to go.

 

[manwithplan]

One of dreamweavers best features, imho, is the ability to turn on xhtml support and that it will generate w3c valid html as standard. Oh yeah, the color coding aint half bad either...

The other end og the complexity scale is gVim, doesnt generate anything for you and doesnt have a wysiwyg view admittedly, but for a very lightweight text editor with color code support for just about every programming language under the sun its fantastic.