Tools you will need.
The key factor in Web development is designing for your target audience. Whilst we do not preach the purist line that all Webpages will be written to the "HTML Standard", we do suggest that any reasonable Web page should be able to be viewed as the author intends in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, the two most commonly used browser packages. We suggest that you have both of these browsers installed to check that your Webpages are"browser-proof".

Additionally, you will need a basic text editor, such as Notepad, and a graphics package capable of saving images in gif and jpg formats, such as Paintshop Pro.

That's it! You don't need anything else. Certainly, there are WYSIWYG editors and developer tools also, but one day you'll get a glitch in your code, with a deadline to meet, and if you can't write it straight in by hand as code you'll regret it - I assure you.