brent wrote:

> I know alot of you guys are sysadmins,
>
> I was wondering if you had any preferences with website design software.
>
> I'm looking for ease of use etc. I'd prefer something linux based, as
> I'll problobly be running the site with apache. However, for a
> proffesional package it'll problobly have to be something like front page,

Frontpage is good for intranets where all users have IE, but it is too IE
specific for the internet.

> as most of the linux software availible is for hand-coders.


Another alternative to pure hand coding: Download good templates and modify
them; glish.com, bluerobot.com, meyerweb.com, and realworldstyle.com's
templates come to mind. Download tidy from w3.org to keep your beginning
efforts under control. Use any text editor, preferably with syntax
highlighting. Modify only one thing at a time, and check the results with
your browser. You will begin to understand what'sgoing on very quickly,
and will begin to understand why special editors can just get in the way.
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cheers, m