Website design - Basic tools

Online course on website design

I have signed up for a FRE.E online course on building your first web page. The instructor gave assurance that designing web pages (i.e writing in HTML) is really, really, really easy to learn. So here goes!

First things first, you need the following basic tools to design a web page :
1. Text Editor
2. Browser

Text Editors
A Text editor is a tool that allows you to edit text.

Some text editors come preloaded with Windows and Macintosh systems : Notepad (for Windows) and SimpleText (for Macintosh) systems. So no reason not to get started!

You can also download for fre.e other powerful text editors such as
EditPadLite (for windows) and BBEdit Lite (for Macintosh)

Or alternatively, go to TUCOWS to find a list of text editors that suit your needs.


Browsers

You need to install on your PC/Macintosh a variety of common web browsers which are used to logon to the internet. As a serious online publisher you would want to preview the webpages that you designed before you post it to the world to see. This is because different browsers might interpret your HTML differently, and might show the pages differently.

The common browsers (next-to-most-recent version) that needs to be installed are :
1. Internet explorer
2. Netscape
3. Firefox
4. Opera
5. Amaya

Once you have the basic tools, you are ready to start the first web page.