Designing Website

wow! so alien to me. i aint techie... but i am looking forward to learning a couple of those.

My apologies , I created a similiar post before I read this one... I am relatively new to the world of webdesign and have only created 8 small prodjects at the moment. I myself prefer to use code ONLY and use Komodo as my "notepad". I found I use a lot of photoshop and design from templates as I find they give a very professionally finished look. I do not exactly copy the template as is, but use "snippets" from there designs. I would however like to start using a little flash in my sites but have never really got around to using or understanding it. But I hopefully will expand my knowledge of design soon. PHP is my next step of learning though.

I'm familiar with all those programs, but I have to say, I prefer to just code my website myself, from scratch, rather than use all these excess programs, it's just a waste of my computer's memory, if you ask me. (Not that you did.)

I know how to use Dreamweaver and Photoshop but I don't design my own sites, I tried but I feel I'm not really artistic enough to come up with a great looking site so I'd just rather use free website templates, I'm more into buiding contents anyways. Best of luck to you :)