Ref:http://www.prismtechnology.in
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Sure, you can probably muddle through it, you can probably impress your boss, but this is the cause of crappy web sites on the web – people think they can do it and are clueless about the real effects of amateur web publishing.

It’s not just about "how it looks" or just the content. "Anyone can build a web page" is absolutely true – but those of is that do it for a living can spot a crap site in a hot second, and identify all the reasons why it fails – cross browser compatibility, accessibility, usability, validation, SEO, hundreds of reasons.

If you ignore all this (as you and all the thumbs down amateurs will) consider also that this is a COMMERCIAL site for a BUSINESS which now opens up a whole list of LIABILITIES.

Do you remember this?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9003129/Court_Accessibility_lawsuit_against_Target_can_proceed

http://jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm

This suit sets new presidents for commercial web sites.

Sure, you can "play the odds" and justify it, "only our customers will visit the site, none of this applies to us, we never had a problem . . . " but it’s like stealing content and copyright violation: do you want to risk your company’s reputation on all of this?

Sure you do. Go ahead . . . . ignore me.
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Web developer 16 years, you haven’t a clue what you’re in for.

Add a new network place – use the FTP address, login and password. That makes it almost trivial. Open that network place, put in the password (or save it) and the files are "on your computer".

I use Edit Plus, but Notepad Plus (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php ) is pretty good too. You should be writing HTML (and CSS and anything else you need) – using a WYSIWYG editor will give you a simple site, but won’t allow you to get into the code to make changes to it and still know what’s happening to the code.

If you don’t have the expertise, ask the boss to send you for training on website development. (There are a few pretty good 1 week courses.)

DO NOT use Office to work on websites. Unless the site runs on a Microsoft server (it shouldn’t be), you’ll just turn it into garbage, even if you know what you’re doing, unless you spend MANY hours ripping out the crap Office thinks is HTML. (Microsoft still thinks they set the standards on the web. Everyone else – like real web servers – which is the vast majority of the web – still ignores them and uses the real standards.)
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Professional web developer

Any text editor can edit html pageshtml, but personally I use this:

http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor/
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