looking for a free or low cost program... any suggestions?

sk

Notepad is serious "Old School", but hard to visualize fonts and layout. The nice thing about notepad is that you can write clean and easy to read HTML without the editor adding a bunch of garbage.

I found this on google:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/windowsht ... ditors.htm

I use #7, but that is because I write web applications, not design websites.

It can be really hard to read HTML in notepad, when a program like Frontpage has filled it with a lot of unnecessary garbage.

Yeah im doing notepad now but ive run into a couple of issues with layout. The problem is the website was org. written with Microsoft Front Page, and from i can tell that program doesn't exist anymore.. im teaching myself HTML but its slow going...

sk

For layout study CSS http://www.w3schools.com/w3css/

To get really fancy, you can use the free version of Visual Studio. There's a learning curve to use this, but plenty of tutorials on the web.https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

Notepad++ is also better than old school notepad, it adds color to your code to make it easier to read. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Don't be afraid to start from scratch and eliminate all that Front Page crap. That's probably written with HTML2 or 3 with a lot of inline formatting. Today HTML 5 is clean, just structure and content. The style comes from CSS.

It doesn't matter what you use to edit with, you'll still be opening the file locally in your own browser('s) to see how it looks. and I do recommend looking at it with Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox and Opera.

I have to maintain the Org. look of the site. I can change wording and format but but the overall look of the site must stay the same..

besides i think im learning way more doing this way then i ever would with some online class.

besides im really almost done. it looks good check it out...

sk