Advice for Web page design

[Libelula]

Can somebody point me in the right direction or provide information on what is the best programming language/software package to design web pages in. Also if anyone has some good 'do' and 'don't' tips would they mind sharing them, so I don't have to discover them for myself.

Cheers

[PeOfEo]

html and notepad. Do not use tables for layout but start off using css and never go down the table path. www.w3schools.com is a good tutorial site.

[Libelula]

cheers for the advice

[pyro]

XHTML might be a better alternative than HTML for a few reasons. One would be that it is more structured, and takes out some of the slop in HTML. Another is that there will be no further versions of HTML. XHTML is the future of the web.

Also, I would recommend using something like HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit) over notepad anyday, as it has a few things that any software package used for programming should have -- line numbers and syntax highlighting. The first is important for debugging, while the second can help avoid having to debug in the first place, as you'll visually see when you make simple mistakes.