Digital BW, The Print

> Does OS X have notepad? she did say OS X guys.

Any plain text editor will do.  On Windows, Notepad is built in and easy to
use.  There are probably a zillion other plain text editors out there, for
both the Mac and Windows, although I'm not sure what the equivalent of
Notepad is called on the Mac.

> ... all of which are easier than learning html
> tags ...

Until they screw something up, and you can't fix it.

The advantage to writing your own HTML is that you know exactly what goes
out there, and if it doesn't do what you want, you know exactly how to fix
it.  Web-authoring tools generate absolute garbage for HTML, and they
generate tons of it, even for the simplest pages.  Not only does this make
the pages impossible to edit without the web-authoring tool (locking you in
to the product), but it also means that even simple pages will take forever
to download when people visit your site.  Worse yet, the more complicated
the HTML, the less likely it is that it will work on all browsers.

> ... I started that way too..I wouldn't go back to it
> if my website's existence depended on it!

My Web site does depend on it, and I write HTML myself all the time.  It's
easy.  And it costs me nothing.  I don't have to depend on anyone's $600
authoring software to keep my site up and running.

If you _need_ authoring software just to set up your page, that's a pretty
good indication that your page is way too complicated.