Shenna,

> I have made several personal websites and I am using Microsoft Front
> Page 2000 to do so. I have used several other options in doing this,
> but I can work with this editor best.

<gritting teeth>  Ease of use is a factor in designing web pages, yes. 
But if you want your pages to be of maximum use to someone else, there
are no shortcuts.  The only thing FrontPage does is add a delay between
getting your pages on the web and getting them to work the way they
should.

As a nuts-and-bolts web designer, I don't use any editing software. 
However, I've heard rave reviews of the free 1stPage html editor.  One
of these days I'm going to try it out myself.

You can find it at  http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage/ .  The site isn't
coming up for me right now so I'm viewing the cached page at
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.evrsoft.com/1stpage/+first+page
+web+editing+software&hl=en

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> Could you direct me to where I can find some templates for this?

I'll let someone else help you with the template question.  One
suggestion I have for you is that you learn how to make tables with
html.  Besides css (which isn't quite universal yet), they are the only
means to format web pages.  The web site you mention uses nested tables.

A good table tutorial can be found at
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/tutors/tbl.html

If you are serious about designing a web site, it will be well worth
your time to learn how to design a page from scratch.  Joe Burns' table
tutorials, at the site above, will help you with this.  Unless you
understand how the page is constructed from the basic framework on up,
you'll only find confusion and disappointment using an html editor such
as FrontPage.  (These editors can provide plenty of frustration even if
you do understand html.)

For starters, you can paste this into Notepad and you'll have a basic
table to frame your content on the page:

Replace all ( 's with <

(table border="0" width="100%">
    (tr>
        (td width="60%">
            You can paste a column of text here
        (/td>
        (td width="40%">
            You can place images here or a different column of text
        (/td>
    (/tr>
    (tr>
        (td colspan="2">
            More text can go here
        (/td>
    (tr>
(/table>

I'm sure someone else will have some better information for you but I
hope this helps.

Ed

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