what tools are needed to design a webpage?

Answer 1

The most basic things you will need are:

An editor - for the most basic NotePad will work

An FTP program or other way to upload your HTML and images, etc. to a host.

A web host to house your HTML so that it can be accessed from the internet.

A domain name to link to your host.

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If you want to create your own images, etc. you will also need a photo editor; the industry standard is Photoshop, but if you don't have $400+ to drop on this, the Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/ ) is free and open source.

If you want an easier to use HTML editor you can go with Dreamweaver for a wysiwyg editor (don't ever use Front Page, please, it makes horrible, unmaintainable code that may not work in all browsers). If you just want a better text editor than Note Pad, download a text editor that offers code highlighting and code completion (there are a number of them out there for free on http://www.download.com/ ).

If you have any questions about the HTML syntax, go to http://www.w3schools.com/ The people behind this site are the ones in charge of the HTML standard (W3C)

Answer 2

The design really just requires a pencil and paper or some drawing software like paint, gimp, or photoshop

To create a working site, at a minimum, all that you need is a text-editor, notepad for example, and a browser to view the results. Most people opt for a more full featured development environment such as one of the design packages like DreamWeaver, GOLive, FrontPage, etc. These aren't really required and in my experience don't generate nice code. It also depends on the type of site. If you want something dynamic then the pages will probably be written in a programming language like PHP, Perl, or Java instead of html, which will require these tools to be installed on your machine too in order for the page to be generated. For example with PHP and Perl you also need the apache webserver with mod_php and/or mod_perl installed. For java you would need the Apache Tomcat server installed.

To actually put the page on the web you need to have a webserver and possibly database server (for interactive sites). Because of the time and expense associated with setting up and maintaining a server system, a lot of people opt for a hosting provider. Your ISP may even offer a hosting plan, but there are many low cost options out there. The host will manage the server and you just have to upload the files for your site too it. This approach also has the advantage of nicely separating your development site from your production site. This way you can make changes to the development version without chaning the version that is actually visible to the Internet.

Answer 3

Firstly, you will need the knowlege on how the basic web programming language i.e., HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).
There are a number of tools available on the internet. The ones very well known are Microsoft Front Page (www.microsoft.com), Macromedia Dreamweaver (www.dreamweaver.com). You can also find free to use Web Designing Tools. You can find more of them at www.download.com, also Yahoo has a website where you can design and upload your own websites. They also provide tools that you can use while building your site.

Answer 4

Not much, take a look at HTMLSource, they have a great tutorial.

Once you know HTML, all you need is a plaintext editor capable of syntax highlighting (there are lots of free ones) and an image editing application (the GIMP is great). Downloading Firefox (which should be your default browser anyway) and Opera is also a good idea, as you should be testing your sites in them.

Last but not least, always remember to validate all your pages with the W3C's Markup Validation Service.

Answer 5

Tools? very few. You can do the work with a plain text editor like notepad. There are a number of pieces of software that do some of the work for you, pick one and have at it.

The knowledge and creativity to make it look good is the hard part.

Answer 6

Depends on exactly what you would like to do. It is only HTML coding and the files you want to put onto the web, and a server to do so.

Because technically nothing is needed except for a basic text editor. Such as: Notepad or Wordpad or even Word

But as things get more technical and as we become lazier we don't want to create all of the HTML coding it might take time out of our days, we choose another program to create the code for us such as Microsoft FrontPage or MacroMedia DreamWeaver or CoffeeCup to name a few.

Hope this helps abit... :-)

Answer 7

If you know about html and css, all you need is a good text editor. A very powerful one is emacs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs ), but you can use notepad if you like.

If you do not plan to do professional web design, you can use something like dreamweaver ( http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ ) or frontpage which require less knowledge to work with.

finally, you can use a tool like

http://pages.google.com/

to create a simple webpage and deploy it without any further knowledge.

Answer 8

depends on how complex you want to get...Professional websites that are completely interactive with animations are generally done in Flash or Director. Programs like Photoshop and its sister program Imageready can produce an appealing html page. Dreamweaver also could be used for coding. Either way you would need a basic HTML editor and a graphics editing program. Those are the essential.

Answer 9

first of all, you need a construction program (i use dreamweaver) additional programs will be needed to add images, flash items and the like. for images, any program that can save .gif or .jpeg images will work(i use adobe illustrator and photoshop). for flash images, video content, etc, i suggest flash. all of these are adobe products and come with tutorials. there are many different apps out there to perform these functions, but if you buy all the products from the same company, they tend to work much better together.

Answer 10

if you want to learn html and style sheets all you need is your browser and windows notepad.

if you don't want to write the code yourself then you need your browser to view updates to the page and a WYSIWYG HTML editor.

A really good and easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editor is http://www.coffeecup.com/ if you haven't written a page before don't use Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is for professionals and is way to difficult for beginners.

I suggest you learn to write HTML and CSS. Even if you never plan to have your own web site you'll need to know them to make your blog look better. Even if you use other people's prewritten codes they will be difficult if not impossible to use if you don't know HTML and CSS.