pierre, I do use Dreamweaver v3, plus Netscape Composer v4.7 plus Notepad and FrontPage.    

And I have a eBook on Dreamweaver, and it makes your head hurt.

that why I said not you Gary, I was lucky when I started a US Professor was doing a weekly Teach yourself course on the internet, free

I was taught on Frontpage at college, I dont know why, because I have never seen any web design company actually use FrontPage, but anyway, that's exactly what I done, bought a book on HTML, and just went through it, until I learned it. If your going to design web pages, you should at least take some time learning how the code works, makes it a whole lot easier to fix problems if something goes wrong.

The problem is that Dreamweaver too can produce some rubbishy code if used in Design mode - a;though not nearly as bad as Frontpage.
I just had to learnt html and CSS etc - and then using Dreamweaver is fine. Trouble is it is so expensive.


I just don't know what to recommend to new amateur web designers - that is a reasonable price ?
 the open socue programmes such as NVU are fine if you know some html/css - but I don't think suitable for new people

Someone recommended NVU to me, ages ago, so I tried it, and honestly I was lost, I couldn't use their interface at all (this was several years ago though), I dont know if they have changed their user interface since then.


I know what you mean, I haven't seen much products, out there for the new user. Sometimes coffeeCup software can be helpful, but I'm not sure about their html editor, as I've never used it, but most of their software is reasonably priced, and you get free updates for life which is a plus

I don't think NVU has been updated recently - but someone branched it and made a few changes I believe.

The other trouble with some of the so called beginners programmes - is they produce horrendous html/css code - and debungging it if it does something wrong is very tricky - and of course Dreamweaver can produce very suspect code as well !.

Thanks for the unpacking guide etc. This is all good stuff for a refugee like me -fresh from the Frontpage server collapse fiasco.