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FrontPage: Easy Pages.

One way to create web pages from scratch without using HTML is to use an editor that hides the HTML from you, letting you edit a web page as easily as you would use a word processor. These programs are called WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editors. Microsoft's…

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Free Graphics Alternatives.

With Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop and most other popular image editors being commercial, paid-for software, you might be forgiven for thinking that there aren't any free alternatives. While they're not very well publicised, there are plenty of free graphic editing…

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Focus on the User: Task-Oriented Websites.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of websites: ones where visitors come to be informed and entertained, and ones where users come to get things done. The second kind of website usually provides some kind of interactive service, which could be anything from…

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Dreamweaver: The Professional Touch.

Dreamweaver is sometimes seen as FrontPage's main competitor but, really, there's not even a comparison to be made. Dreamweaver might be expensive, sure, but there are serious web designers out there using it and getting work done I can guarantee you that no real…

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Don't Be Scared, It's Only Code: HTML for Beginners.

For some reason, HTML seems to really frighten a lot of people. Some have seen complicated HMTL that's been produced by an editor program, or they've clicked ‘View Source' on a few pages and been scared by what they've seen. What you have to realise, though, is…

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Designing for Sales.

One thing that lots of designers don't seem to understand is that there's a big difference between the kind of design you should use if you're trying to present information (usually with ads), and the kind of design you should use if the aim of your website is to make…

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Content is King.

Somewhere between ever more sophisticated graphic design and more complicated CSS, many designers are starting to forget one of the ground rules of the web. This rule is arguably the most important rule to follow at all times; one that you should always keep in mind…

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Column Designs with CSS.

So CSS makes layouts easier than they were with tables there's not really much debate about that. One of the reasons many people stuck with tables for so long (and, in fact, still stick with tables to this day) is that it can be difficult to create column-based…

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ColdFusion: Quicker Scripting, at a Price.

ColdFusion is a rapid application development language for the web, developed by Macromedia. It's not free, but many people say that it's more important to them to have the development speed that ColdFusion offers and you can download a free ‘developer version'…

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