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i have "Gedit" text editor. Is it possible to make web pages? and which site is best to learn about coding ?

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Short answer for : yes — Gedit is perfectly capable of making web pages. and are right to push learning the raw markup first: start by typing HTML yourself so you understand structure and browser behavior. and mention visual editors; those can speed layout work later, but they often hide what’s happening under the hood, so use them only after you’re comfortable editing files by hand.

A simple workflow to get started:

  1. Create a file and save it as index.html (make sure it’s not index.txt).
  2. Use UTF‑8 encoding.
  3. Put a minimal HTML skeleton in the file and open it in your browser (double‑click or drag the file into the browser). Example starter page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>My first page</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html>

Practical tips and common pitfalls: browsers cache aggressively — use Ctrl+F5 to force a reload while testing. If you want to serve files from a local web server (favored when testing APIs or relative paths), run python -m http.server 8000 in the folder and visit http://localhost:8000. Open Developer Tools (F12) to inspect the DOM, watch console errors, and debug CSS. Validate markup when something breaks, keep files under version control (Git) as you practice, and build small, focused pages before trying full layouts. Learning by doing and reading reference docs will get you farther, faster than relying only on visual editors.

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You can use almost any editor to make any web page. If you wish to learn about web development, I'd recommend W3 Schools, Lynda , Webdesign.Tutsplus, Tutorial Zine, DaniWeb, and you can obviously Google for other tutorials.

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Online tutorials are good for basic introduction and reference. Nothing beats a good set of books and practicing what you learn.

Get involved in this forum as well as others and use other people's questions as an opportunity for learning. Try to solve their issues.

With regard to an editor stay away from those that write code for you. You need to learn the markup and scripting languages to the point where you can open a text editor and write the syntax on your own.

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You can use dreamviewer to deit pages and for learning programming you have to start with w3school where you can learn all the baisc fundamentals that you can start learning advance things and google is best for collect proper material.

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Dreamviewer is best editor for designing website in html and w3school website offers easy to understand tutorials for learning basic fundamentals about it.

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