Web Design Editing Tools

Posted on: 09-30-2006 Posted in: Web Development Help

Hi Cricket!

I am in round 2 of your SEO and Marketing classes and am learning so much. I am currently redesigning my entire web site and am wondering if you can reccomend any FrontPage classes that would be of the same quality as your SEO and Marketing classes? Or furthermore, do you reccomend FrontPage over Dreamweaver or some other web development software?

Thank you so much,

Jim, Groton, CT
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Hi Jim!

When it comes to the tools that you choose to use for web design, I think it is important to remember that they are just tools of the trade.

An artist may be very particular about the specific brushes he chooses to paint with, but in they end those brushes are just tools. The artist is the one who decides the creative actions the brush takes and the resulting art produced. I find it to be much the same with web design. FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and Expression Web, are all just tools. They are only able to do exactly what you tell them to do. The better the input from the web designer, the better the output from the programs.

There are literally millions of resources on the web today for learning to write valid HTML and CSS. The more time you invest learning the basics, the happier you will be with the results when you use these programs. Now, if you are looking for an excellent eBook to learn the basics of HTML, I highly recommend HTML 4.01 Basics Simplified by SR Emerson. (She teaches in our Website Development class.)

Take some time to browse through our Website Development Training Center. I think you will find several options that will meet your needs. Once you learn the basics, you might consider the advanced training by Cheryl Wise of Start to Web.

I WILL DEFINITELY SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

J. Cricket Walker