About Web Design Book - Chapter 1

Many people care very deeply about whether their HTML editor is WYSIWYG or not.

nVu is a WYSIWYG editor that is available for free for Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms. If you don't want to spend any money on a WYSIWYG editor, this is a good one to choose.

You can learn HTML in 10 weeks with this free online class.

If 10 weeks is too long, you can run through these steps to learn HTML.

These are the best WYSIWYG editors for Windows.

HomeSite is my favorite editor and you can purchase it from Adobe.

HTML editors make it easy to write web pages. While it is possible to write a web page using just the text editor on your computer, most web designers find that it is much more efficient to use an HTML editor. HTML editors give you features that aren t usually available in plain text editors. And the About.com Web Design / HTML site has the most...

Graphics software can be almost as important as your Web editor, but choosing the right one can be hard. Luckily there is help available from the About Graphics Software Guide.

I've also got a short article detailing some of the things that Web designers specifically need to use a graphics tool.

If you need to verify your HTML is correct, the first place I always go is the W3C validator. Your HTML doesn't even have to be online, as long as you can attach the file and upload it.

CoffeeCup is one of my favorite Web software companies. They offer a lot of really exciting products.

There are certain job titles that are more popular than others when it comes to Web design.

Testing your ideas as you go along can help you create a site structure that works and is more flexible.

Installing Apache on a Linux Web server is complicated, but something that you can do.

You can also install Apache on Windows. Learn how to install Apache on Windows.

The US government's guide to developing usable and useful Web sites.

Jakob Nielsen's Web site on usability.

Improve your Web site by doing usability tests. The Web Usability Guide will show you how.

Learn how to build great pages that people will want to visit.

Just because you've built a Web site doesn't mean that people are going to want to visit it. And there's more to it than just learning HTML.

Notepad is a completely viable HTML editor, but there are some tricks to get it to work well. If you follow these instructions you'll be able to use the built-in text editor on Windows for editing your HTML documents.