Do you have to have photoshop to make a nice, slick css for a webiste?

Question

If you do, what is a good alternate program, hopefully free, for photoshop?

This is using css. No dreamweaver.

I am new to html and css. I work thru notepad. What I am trying to get at, I guess, is making background images, banners, and such without photoshop.

Answer 1

If you are not using Dreamweaver because of the licensing, check out the Eclipse IDE, it has a plugin which can do most things Dreamweaver can do such as auto-code completion etc. Plus it is free!

Furthermore, for an open source alternative to Photoshop, check out the GIMP.

Answer 2

You don't need Photoshop or any other program for CSS. You just need notepad or whatever coding app you like. Personally, I use ConText because it's free and it's easy to use and it also highlits parts of your code to see them better.

If you want to learn CSS, I agree, w3 schools is a good place to start, but not the best. Search the web and I gurantee that you'll find dozens of free tutorials on CSS. It's not hard to learn CSS, it's quite simple actually for people with few HTML background. You just need to learn the basics of it and you'll find the tags you need in examples right off the web.

PS: If you start learning CSS, don't give up if things aren't quite working well the first time.

Answer 3

You might want to try TopStyle or TopStyle Lite they are both good CSS editors. You can even do CSS with notepad.

Answer 4

you can learn more about css on w3school's website. CSS or cascaded style sheet is a description of the page elements, you can write a css yourself if you understand how it is written

Answer 5

no. if u have dreamweaver u can do it in that