There is no substitute for learning HTML, even if today it isn't mandatory. There are a lot of quite good HTML Editors about that are approaching WYSIWYG. We say approaching because despite claims that they are, we feel that most fail as soon as you get beyond the most simple of sites. Also bare in mind that an HTML file is only a text file and you can end up paying good money for something theat you could be doing in any text editor.(such as NOTEPAD.EXE in windows!) Another consideration is that most of these editors like to do things their own way. Often when you do want to do something a little different, the editors detect your changes and then change them back. Certain editors also have a reputation for producing very long winded and bloated code. Although this may be a very easy way of getting the effect you want, it leads to pages that take an age to download to your audiences browser. The last thing that you want is for your potential customers to give up on your page before they have actually seen it.

We have collected together as much in the way of guides and tutorials on HTML as we could for you to try and learn HTML. It isn't difficult and with assistance you should be producing pages with confidence in no time at all.

Tools that are FREE

There are an awfull lot of HTML editors available for free download over the internet. Many of these are a free trial and others are trully free for your own use. If you want to get a page up and running with the minimum of fuss and heartache then this is definitely the way to go. Before you go and rush out to download some new program, just check that you don't already have one or more already installed on your computer. Microsofts Internet Explorer 4 comes with FrontPage Express for free. Netscape Communicator has Composer built in. While both of these are limited in what they can achieve, they are a good starting place for a fast and dirty web page.