Editors:

Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#htmleditors
HTML Editor Reviews – http://www.wdvl.com/Reviews/HTML/
Free Online Editor Tool: http://htmledit.squarefree.com/
Free Flash Website Builder (Online): http://www.wix.com/
PageBreeze (Free visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes): http://www.pagebreeze.com/
Notepad++ (Free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages): http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Serif WebPlus SE: http://myrtc.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-serif-webplus-se.html

Download Trellian WebPage (Free): http://www.trellian.com/webpage/download.htm

Mac users might want to download BBedit Lite, a more powerful, and free mac text editor: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite.html

Free Mac Web Design Software: http://web-design.lovetoknow.com/Free_Mac_Web_Design_Software

Just a matter of learning how to do it properly and NOT let the editor do all the work as you will need to hand code some pages at times.

Ron
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Whatever you do you need HTML. It is a mark-up language and not programming.

To get logic into your web page, the easiest (learning) route is to begin with PHP which is also not really a programming language.

From there you want evolve into Java or some other Object Oriented Programming like C# but I’d personally go Java.

If you think you are really gifted and extremely smart them jump straight into Java and never look back!
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If you mean application development, you need to start out with some fundamentals. learn javascript or php then advance into .net languages like vb.net, c#, or even Delphi.net.

If you mean site design, dreamweaver may be helpful but there is a bit of a learning curve. Look into th basics of html and css. http://www.w3schools.com provides a good source of tutorials.

Dreamweaver is not robust enough to do any serious application development.
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