Time to ditto evilminion...

Back in the stone age, I used VI in a unix shell 
to create my web sites.  Every time I made a 
change I needed to exit back into the shell, enter 
 lynx, check the page, exit lynx, enter VI... I 
don't know how I managed. ;)

Eventually Windows and Netscape entered my life 
(for better or worse) and I could keep a terminal 
open to my VI/shell and a window open to a 
browser.  *phew*

Now I've left the stone age, *cough*, and use 
Notepad to design my sites.  I don't use html 
books, I just play around until I get the look I'm 
aiming for.  Code can be snagged off other sites 
if necessary (which I know I did at least once, a 
few years ago).  I still habitually design my 
sites in a lynx-friendly manner, which isn't all 
bad because a lot of people browse with their 
graphics turned off and therefore need completely 
text-friendly pages.

(A lot of good that wouldn't do them on a cel 
site.  While making mine, recently, I started 
wondering if the main index was too graphics 
heavy.  Then I remembered that cel sites in 
general can't  exactly be the least 
graphics-loaded beasts around.  Oh yeah!  Heh.)

Which amounts to saying: my sites are NOT fancy, 
but they're simple and I like them.  You'll see 
when I open my cel site. ;)

I have never used a web designing program.  Any 
web page I look at that was designed with one has 
a lot of useless gibberish in the coding, plus 
details about what program you used and such.  I 
prefer everything to be tightly coded exactly the 
way I want it, because I'm anal-retentive.

Using Notepad (or VI, or any other text editor), 
it's easy to copy a file of a page similar to the 
the new one you're working on.  Then simply 
replace all text, file names to be linked, etc, 
with the correct ones.  Though this has 
occasionally led to me loading a page to see how 
it looks and noting something along the lines of 
"Oops, the title for my Ura Uruha cel section says 
 'Hiei and Kurama cels'". ;)  But that's easy 
enough to fix.

I, too, use Photoshop for graphics.  Both for 
scanning and for cleaning up images.  And for 
seeing what size proportions I want in my IMAGE 
SRC lines.

-Jasmine