Programs?

[Blinger1]

Go on then, what is a 'good' program?

[Iszak]

I would suggest using a free text editor such as notepad++ or programmers notepad, or something along those lines, but I advise not to use notepad in general. Notepad lacks features like having the ability to select some text, press tab and have it indent which is really helpful and also simple syntax highlighters. As for Dreamweaver, Fontpage, and Expression Web stay away from those, they're WYSIWYG editors which when learning isn't what you want, you'd want to get to know the code instead of using their click, drag, drop, adjust style of creating. But in the end it's up to you and your needs, we all have different ones.

[Meti]

Hello,
To start coding, I'd suggest you getting DreamWeaver, since it has HTML etc included.
Example: If you want to add margin: auto; to the code, you just write margin: and it shows you all the alternatives you could choose between.
But NotePad is great too. Just that you have to know the code yourself.

When I design, I always use Photoshop. I don't think I've ever used Paint.
I'm not saying Paint is bad, but Photoshop has everything you need and want =)
Paint is mostly for pixelizing struff.

Good luck!