Website beginner

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I bought Dreamweaver and got my son to do our site.

It's always a work in progress.

Last summer I had him insert the PDG shopping cart. Now that is a lot of work, it interfaces with my Quick Books, and takes credit cards online.

I would like to get into Dreamweaver to make some really sweet sites but for now I think I should learn the basics, even if that means I go and get Dreamweaver in a month.

That PDG deal does sound complicated, but Über slick.

I have been doing web design for over 10 years. I would suggest Dreamweaver as suggested above. There are MANY MANY MANY books and lots of online tutorials. Basically, find a method of learning that works for you. If you learn hands on, video tutorials or classes will work best. If you have good reading comprehension, just do some google searches for beginner Dreamweaver tutorials.

Myself, I use Notepad++. The comfort of an IDE to do most of the coding for you is way to easy to get use too, then you start to loose what it means to really understand a lot of the code. Nothing irks me more than a decent web designer that uses a specific CSS tag or javascript but can't explain why he uses it or how it works.

I just expect more from the people I work with though. I would never criticize anyone else unless they asked me to.

Good luck! And don't forget to watch the "You suck at photoshop" series on YouTube if you want to get into Photoshop design.

What is Notepad++? I will definitely be getting dream weaver and photoshop, it is after all being funded by bigger pockets than my own so the sky is the limit.

intuit it where its basicly set up for dummies
http://www.intuit.com/

I really want to learn how to write the code first so when I run into specific problems later I will already know how to fix it instead of not having a clue where to look, but I do want to get some software to save time in writing code by hand later on.

Nate your avatar is hilarious. I will have to try Lynda $25 a month how can you beat that?