If you are not convinced that you should acquire an HTML tool, let me give you one example of how helpful they can be. A TABLE is a very common and often used HTML element. Here is an example. This table and the information inside of it was created in just a few minutes using FrontPage 2003.

Weeks	January	February	March
First Week	$60	$400	$1000
Second Week	$80	$500	$1200
Third Week	$100	$700	$1800
Fourth Week	$250	$900	$200

Here is the HTML code that FrontPage 2003 created for this table:

<center>
<table border="2" width="400 height=" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#CCCCFF" height="132" bordercolordark="#C0C0C0">
<tr>
<td width="108"><b>Weeks</b></td>
<td width="91"><b>January</b></td>
<td width="91"><b>February</b></td>
<td><b>March</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="108">First Week</td>
<td width="91">$60</td>
<td width="91">$400</td>
<td>$1000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="108">Second Week</td>
<td width="91">$80</td>
<td width="91">$500</td>
<td>$1200</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="108">Third Week</td>
<td width="91">$100</td>
<td width="91">$700</td>
<td>$1800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="108">Fourth Week</td>
<td width="91">$250</td>
<td width="91">$900</td>
<td>$200</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>

As you can see, it would have been a real job to write all of this code by hand, plus there would have been time spent trying to find and fix any code errors, re-testing and making changes until the final result was obtained. Unless you really like to write and debug code and are very good at it, getting a good HTML Tool should be a priority.

I discuss HTML editors and GUI editors in the section on Web Design Tools.

HTML Editing Tools and Tutorials

There are numerous Websites that can help help you learn HTML. Here's a few of the better ones that I like:

To help you start learning and working with HTML at a low price (like for FREE), here are some basic HTML editors available on the Web:

Selida
Amaya

There are even a couple of FREE Basic Website Design programs available,

Nvu from Linspire (they do ask you to make a cash donation for the program)
First Page 2006 by Evrsoft

JavaScript Tools and Tutorials

JavaScript is a scripting language that is used extensively in HTML and allows dynamic behavior to be specified within HTML documents. It was developed by Netscape Communications and first appeared in Netscape Navigator.

JavaScript allows you to do things like:

Detecting the Browser or Operating System being used by a visitor.
Change an image when the mouse pointer rolls over it.
Automatically close a Popup window.
Add buttons that perform various tasks, like print your Web page or capture specific information and take you to another Web page.
Create a box with scrolling text.
Valid form boxes

Here's a Website that has lots of FREE JavaScript code snippets that you can cut and paste into your Website pages: The JavaScript Source

If you're interested in learning JavaScript here are the Web addresses of a few good tutorials that I like.