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Many thanks for such a detailed and informative answer!

Thanks for the replies, very helpful. I thought using dreamweaver to learn was bad news because it inserts unnecessary code?

Hi everyone I am new to web design and currently learning XHTML and CSS which I am finding fairly logical. I have CS4 which includes Dreamweaver but I am currently coding by hand in Notepad++ so that I can get to grips with the coding properly. My question is how do I set up the files and folder for sites I am building as I assume they will get bigger as I get more practice in. Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

Hi Sikis, I am a total novice too so you are not alone. Get yourself a good book on xhtml and css and get started!

Hi Darsham, I'm new here too so look forward to recieving any advice you can offer to a design newbie.

thanks very much, certainly got lots to keep me interested.

Hi folks, thanks for the advice. Now gotta get my head down and start learning!

Hi everyone, I am a total newbie to web design and have just started learning XHTML and CSS. I want to eventually be able to combine my photography with freelance design and have given myself three years to teach myself web design whilst I complete my photography degree. Other things like JavaScript, MySQL and PHP keep popping up all over the web and I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction as to which order I should be learning stuff in as I am finding it all a bit much to take in at the moment. Should I concentrate on one area at a time or just go the whole hog and try and learn a bit of each language as I go? Any help and advice greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, thought I would introduce myself here. I have recently given up a long career in accountancy to focus on letting out my creative side which has been hibernating for the last 20 years! I have just completed the first year of a design degree but am moving on to a photography degree in september.My design teacher tried to steer me away from web design because she thought it would be as boring as accountancy for me. However, I am still feeling the pull of web design which i considered before starting out on the design degree. I just can't help it, i am totally hooked on the immediacy of creating sites in html, even though I only have basic html and css knowledge. Now that the summer holidays are here I would like to advance my skills and would appreciate any advice from any of you out there regarding which languages I should be learning. Ultimately, I would like to combine my photography with web design and work as a freelancer and am giving myself a timscale of three years to 'train' myself. I would welcome any advice and help you people here can give me.