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If you have Adobe Photoshop installed on your computer, use 'Save for Web' when preparing images for the web. It allows you to see the before and after effects of jpg, gif and png formatting as well as providing information on size and download time.Although using WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) applications to create websites is quick and easy, it is far better to hand code your web pages. HTML is not a hard language to master, but by learning it, you will release a far greater potential.MySQL - although it sounds stupid, is a superb database system. It is totally free and can provide data to the front end of any website, providing that it is install on the server. PHP is used to comunicate between a database and the web-browser.PHP is a great language for adding amazing flexibility, database control and interactivity to a website. It is not easy to learn, but even with simple tutorials you can start to produce pretty incredible functionality.If you want to be able to slim down the amount of code within your webpage and at the same time extend the graphical capabilities of HTML, then learn about CSS (cascading style sheets). You won't regret it!
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