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I just use notepad++, or just notepad, depending on where I am. I use those for all of my HTML, javaScript, PHP, and CSS. I've also made some applets, but I always use Eclipse for them, and I'm not really sure if you could fit applets into the 'web design' category.
I don't think I'm very creative when it comes to design, either, but if I mess with something long enough, I usually end up with something at least decent. For web design, if you're really creative, it might be better trying to design it with an art program or drawing it out first, but for people like me, who pretty much suck at design, trial and error is usually better. QUOTE(karlosantana @ Dec 6 2007, 10:06 AM)  ok guys my board is up! look in the category and you'll see a section called 3 Monthly chalenges and look in there and youll see this topic! see you there! Board is Here Karlosantana! you are hosting a fatal error on that page QUOTE you are hosting a fatal error on that page Ya i know i screwed it up for the purpose of this post sorry guys! ill be back once ive found out what i did  well anyway before i added a chatroom i had put cooppermine photo gallery into it  was well chuffed then i went and screwed it up sorry to everyone who followed that link  very unhappykarlosantana very unhappy
I would recomend C++ and the other programme......forgot tell u l8ta
free easssy 2 use looks cool 
So It's up in the tutorials section ive still got a second part to add it'll be finished on my web page! (challenges section look down there
\/\/\/ click here to see the first section Hope this heps Karlosantana Happy new year! Ok so first of all... What's the website going to be about? Well How about...  errr Making a website with free software? (see what I did there?)Second.. We want the website to look nice.. dont we  So lets have it looking smooth and gentle with the occasional “loud” colours Third... It has to be simple, easy on the eye, but also easy on the brain! (not to many codes) Thought id never get to it? Well I am! Lets Get to it! Once you've installed KompoZer When Its started up you should get a screen like this...  As you can see VERY basic infact it was so basic I was crying for dreamweaver but I forced myself and I learned html I have also put some generators (although I hate them) on my three monthly site take a look here Now lets start with the index page once we've done the index page everything else just falls into place! because when we have an index page we have our header and footers already made for us! Load Up GIMP  Go to Xtns--->Logos--->(your choice) (see Pic) So there's the logo done (you could add whatever logo you want but we're just doing it simple for now). Now using ftp commander upload that to your root directory (public_html). Go back to KompoZer we now want to add that image to our site go to Insert—-->image and enter the image url and the alternate text you should be looking something like this  But doesnt the image look odd with black background on white? lets fix that go to Format--->Page Colour And Backgrounds. If you have an image (which I dont) add its url in (remember that it has to be uploaded!) However im using a colour...black! or #0000000 so click advanced edit (see pic)  There that looks better doesnt it! now lets add some navigation. On the bottom tabs of KompoZer there's one that says “Source”, Use a generator to generate the hover profile etc etc HERE it does all the hard work for you  add the Script where it tells you to (in between <head> and </head> tagsThat's the bare bones done but what are we navigating to? well lets have an about and contact page so three buttons Home-index.html About-about.html and Contact-contact.html. To start just type in the “buttons” or what you want to call them them leaving space between them (by pressing Tab on your keyboard) now highlight one, then press Ctrl+L (link short cut) then paste the url in the “Link Location” box.  Now this is where the pc nearly went at the wall! the colours change to what they're not supposed to be so to fix this go to Page Colours And Background again and where it says Link Text Change it to what it should be in my case white! now repeat this for all buttons remember what I said earlier about the about page and the contact page? well we will be creating that next, so just make the links http://www.whateveryourthingis.com/about.html etc. (I've left one of the link properties to demonstrate this.) Then you should have something similar to this  Now thats done lets save it onto our computer first go to File---->Save As it'll then ask you for a title this is what people will see on the top of their screens (look on top now) put something like Welcome to my site. Next it'll ask you for a file name save it as index.html, yes that is important, because if you dont save it as index.html people who come to visit will get a file list. If you already have an index page then overwrite it. Now that you've done that copy it as many times as you need (in this case 2) and rename them to what they should be in this case its contact.html and about.html Lets make the contact page... a feedback form Now Im going to just give you the code because it'll take to long to explain what it does, how it does it etc. etc. so here we go. Load up contact.html in KompoZer, go into the source of your page (the tab at the bottom of KompoZer) and insert this inbetween the <head> and the </head> tags CODE <script name="JavaScript"> <!-- function SendEmail() { var toaddy = 'name@domain.com'; var subject = 'JS Form Submission'; var mailer = 'mailto:' + toaddy + '?subject=' + subject + '&body=' + 'Name%20is\n\t' + document.jsform.visitorname.value + '\n\n' + 'Email%20is\n\t' + document.jsform.email.value + '\n\n' + 'Message:\n\n' + document.jsform.message.value + '\n\n'; parent.location = mailer; } // --> </script> Right in that there is a bit that says “var toaddy = 'name@domain.com';” change the email address to yours. The second bit is the form itself so put this where you want it. (inbetween the <body> and </body> tags) CODE <form name="jsform"> <table><tr> <td align="right">Name:</td> <td><input name="visitorname" size="27"></td> </tr><tr> <td align="right">Email:</td> <td><input name="email" size="27"></td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="2"> Your message:<br> <textarea name="message" cols="31" rows="6" wrap="soft"> </textarea> <center> <p> <input type="submit" onClick="SendEmail()" value="Send Message"> </center> </td> </tr></table> </form> Now it should look something like this  The About page and index page are now very easy you just type in what you want (wile in the normal tab) same with all pages actually the text you put in is entirely up to you! this is the easy part of this topic the even easier parts, forums, products and suchlike will be covered in the next post! (its been a long day and I need sleep!)
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