Best way to approach template design?

[navjeet1]

I want to design a web template for a friend and I have see some free templates form WDC. I wanted to get your opinion on the best way to approach template design? Which programs should I use? I know quite a bit but still am not knowledgeable enough to use notepad not yet atleast so what do you think I should use?

[Brian M]

There are quite a few decent freeware editors out there if you would do a search for freeware html editors. But the one that comes to my mind first and foremost is Komposer, which is NVU's unofficial bug-fix release. NVU is opensource and they stopped development on it, so someone else took the ball and ran with it. I have used it before I got Dreamweaver, and it works alot like Dreamweaver. If you can afford it Dreamweaver is another great WYSIWYG editor. Below I have included a few links to good tutorials and web related resources that may help you out a bit, too.

Tutorials and Resources

• Tizag Tutorials
• W3C Schools
• Web Monkey
• Tweako