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hi

What software is easiest for web design? To help a complete dummy lol

Notepad++

Seriously though I guess it depends on what you want to achieve.

With the help of Jacques I re-learnt HTML then onto XHTML and CSS. Don't know any Javascript or server side scripts at all yet, but learning to write your own coding gives you a better understanding of what's going on I feel.

If you want to just stick up a few basic pages about yourself, and don't care about starting from scratch if there are bugs in the code, then get a cheap wysiwyg editor of which photo-taker told you about.

Both are free.

Depending on what you want to do, you might want to look at a CMS (Content Management System). All the hard work will be done for you.

I'm currently 'skinning' Jaws for someone - very impressed with it even though the documentation is limited.

There is also Drupal and Joomla! which are well used and well supported.

Thanks

What I'm hoping to do is just build a 'face' site really. I'm gonna sell my clips on something like clips4sale etc but want a site that will hold previews/images etc and then when a buyer wants a clip they are redirected to clips4sale.

I'll try out the above suggestions anyway and see which I find best.

Thanks again

Forum wise 'Vanilla' is nice looking, easy to use, it's extensible and easy to skin (mostly just CSS changes)

Blog wise Wordpress is probably the easiest to 'theme', again mostly CSS changes.

Both use modular templates which makes things alot easier - these give you the layout and then you style with CSS.

Both are really easy to install.

I should add that most templates can be 'ported' to whatever you use for a blog or forum, but it's easier to do within a framework i.e. wordpress, vanilla etc.