The first program I used in when I started to learn web design was TextEdit, followed quickly by Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver was great for a while because if you knew what you wanted to do you could find a button for it and let Dreamweaver do the rest. It’s easy but it creates a lot of code that I don’t understand, and as I’ve recently found in WordPress, that much Javascript doesn’t play nice with everything. So being a Mac Guy I’ve decided to try out some simpler things. I probably would’ve tried Coda first, but recently a couple of newcomers have been making noise, CSSEdit and Espresso. They are both made by MacRabbit, a Belgian Mac developer that loves focused simplicity.
After several months of work on the Milliseconds Sports Timing website it is now up and running. Milliseconds Sports TIming is a company that offers chip timing services to race directors for their competitive events. I designed the website and laid it out in HTML and then Milliseconds’ developer plugged it into their PHP database. I also developed my first WordPress Template for their Blog section. I learned a lot, including CSS rollovers which I now have an itch to use to replace all my JS rollovers on this site. Check out the website here.