Thanks for the compliment!, and we are here to help.

The word HITS is ofte used in two contexts, either meaning amount of visits or more technically meaning every request.

When your "hits" are alarmingly larger than your "visitors" the stats...

You can also add shortcut keys to your snippets in DreamWeaver:
Working with code snippets...

I would advise that even when doing fluid designs a certain level of control is necessary. The same fluidity that will work on a PDA (say 240px wide) will not give a decent page for a 1024x768...

A useful article:

New to web site development: what tools should I use? (http://www.netbulge.com/index.php?session=0&action=read&click=open&article=1113899709)

Depending on how good you want...

Quoting myself from above:

As stated above, PHP and FTP are not a versus, they are very different things.

PHP is a programming language used mostly on the web. It is open source.

FTP is a standard protocol for file...

I see what you are saying and you are right, most designers use the tools without getting to know them or the web technologies properly.

But I also see plenty of people proud of their hand code...

I agreed with everything you said up until:
>>I might aswell use Dreamveaver or Frontpage and just churn-out block Html.

Dreamweaver - and, although painfully, Frontpage2003 for that matter - are...

It depends on your goal. Do you want it to be a good site or as a developer do you want to be done with it soon?

A good site has to be carefully planned (or at least somewhat planned). This takes...

A note on free fonts,

There is nothing wrong with free stuff, just make sure you know what you are getting. For example,
http://free-fonts.sustainedhits.com/byletter/F/download-free-fonts.htm
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