This article is for readers who have either no prior experience of Web Design or very little time.
No Programs
The best way to write Web pages is to get your hands dirty and write the code yourself.
Programs that produce HTML often do so badly. They often produce Web pages that go long way round about doing things. When you code the pages by hand you have an intimate understanding of what you are doing and can make the actual size of the Web page file as small as possible. This reduces download times so the pages load quicker and the users are happier.
When you use a program to generate HTML, understand how the page is built internally because it does it for you. This is not a problem as long as everything works. But what about when it doesn’t? If you find that the Web page doesn’t display properly in Internet Explorer 4, and many of the users use that browser, you are going to have to sort it out. This means forgetting about the program and looking at the code.