Web Development on a shoe string

So you want to make a website but don't want to pay a penny to get it done. Its not as hard as you may think.

There are some great free tools I highly recommend:

Paint.net For image editing

Notepad++ For text editing of html, css and js

Firebug For tweaking and testing changes

IE Tab for a quick swap between firefox and IE (the 2 most used browsers) for testing (as Internet explorer is not a standards compliment browser so makes web creation hard)

There you have it, you don't need to buy expensive software like photoshop or dreamweaver, the above make free replacements - sure paint.net does not have as many features but its much more user friendly and sure notpad++ is not a WYSYWIG editor and is not as powerful as dreamweaver but its free! and it will make you better at writing code from scratch. Remember you can always use free templates as a starting point.

I'll list some of the sites I have made with the above soon.