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Preface

Almost everyone wishes a website nowadays. Whether for commercial or personal reasons, you will stand to benefit a lot from a website. As a seller, you can market to millions of people across the globe with a website. You will be able to show your catalog and allow people to buy online without leaving their homes. You will have the benefit of updating your catalog without having to republish. For individuals, you can write about your hobby and share with others.

No matter how you use your website, you will require some tools to help you design, edit and load your files. You will have to get these resources to help you put together your text and images and neatly present them in a webpage form.

You will need tools to help you write your content. These resources will manage your text size, color and even style. You will need templates to give your website a consistent look. You will need scripts to ease routine tasks and make you do repetitive task. Visitors will need interactivity, and you will have to afford them that opportunity. Most importantly, you will have to obtain the functionality you want.

Web page design calls for simplicity in every aspect. Designers want ease of use and speed of implementation. Tools that help them do more in less time are welcome. Easy navigation will make your visitors want to use your site again.

This guide lists some of the must have resources every web designer must have and what function these resources perform. Care has been taken to illustrate each tool, define its role in web page creation and show how site designers can obtain them.

This resource also shows how web designers can achieve efficiency in their job through various tools, components and applications that are listed. Each tool or program is explained in great detail, and sources where they can be obtained.

Html editors 

Html editors are WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) applications that let you create web pages without having to know about programming or coding. You have all the available tools in a graphical format so you only point and click.   

HTML editors are quite popular with web designers for various reasons. They can create websites faster than hand-coded programs, so if you are hard pressed for time, html editors come in handy.  It also helps designers to deploy websites quickly. Almost every standalone html edit has an ftp program that can help you load your files to the Internet. These inbuilt ftp applications will organize your files for you so that you can minimize the errors that come with file uploading. Html editors ensure that you achieve consistency with pages. All the pages you create will have uniformity and that will make the site look professional.  

Html editors have the added advantage been able to function if even if you are offline. You can therefore create pages with them and later connect onto the net and upload your files.  

These editors make the work of every website designer easy. The interface has tools to let you insert images into your page with great ease, and you will not have to know about graphics to do it. The program will just guide you through a wizard. You will also create your hyperlinks and text with a breeze. You will change your text style, size and color just as you would when using text editor.

Html editors ultimately help you create web pages quickly, and also minimize the 

incidence of errors. You will also benefit from its GUI interface that works with icons. You just have to click the task the image represents and off you go. Some of the most used html editors are Microsoft FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Both have graphical user interfaces to help both beginners and professionals deploy functional and versatile websites. Within minutes you can create highly interactive websites and then launch them onto the web.