Need for Editors

What to use - What to refuse

What do you need to use to start designing your website?
First you will need an editor. An editor is a program you use to write your html. For this introductory tutorial we will be using Notepad for Windows or you can use any other text program which allows you to save text as a html file.

What you can use to start designing your website.
There are also other editors, such as Microsoft Frontpage Express. It si essentially an easy to use word processor for creating HTML documents. Unlike a text editor such as Notepad, Frontpage Express is a WYSIWYG environment, in which "What You See Is What You Get". In other words, what your document looks like in Frontpage Express is pretty much what your webpage will look like. Therefore you don't need to know an extensive knowledge of html.

Then why write your own HTML when there is Frontpage?
The most primary reason is, obviously, because HTML started in those tags.The second reason for starting off using notepad is because everyone who uses Internet Explorer 5 and above has notepad. Then it is always better to know HTML, even if you choose later on to use the WYSIWYG editors. You can make a page very quickly using a program such as Frontpage, but you learn nothing about html. When you want to add something fancier later on you won't know where to start.