Looking at it, All Clicks deemed that any clicks (12 hour/per unique IP) from any links are deemed usable.

Looking at this point, ain't it a bit weird to trick your visitors into clicking a very interesting link only to find him/her going into a webportal? Unless of course, you do a clickheretofind more link.

But judging from the advice from its page, even links that point to like Click here to go to next gallery or next page, this makes it sounds a little weird. If this is an old rant, sorry, I just came across and is very interested in such a different advertising company.

Weird but don't know if this is an acceptable form of sending clickthrus.

It's a great way to start a web design career.

That way you will know what you are doing when you use a WYSIWYG editor

AllClicks has been around for over a year now. I must admit, I had my doubts about whether or not they would survive in the early days, but Standard Internet (the company that runs AllClicks, SearchTraffic, PopupTraffic and others) has grown to become one of the most trustworthy (and financially secure) ad brokers around. Oh, and ClickHereToFind is actually a property of SI.

The only other blind link agency that I'm aware of is TrashTraffic.com, which also accepts adult sites into its network.

I'm not that thick. I do already know html and javascript properly. As if I would get dreamweaver without knowing html and what's a WYSIWYG editor?

Argh..its just too bad that I'm in Malaysia..else I would love to send around 10k unique a day @ 50% load, it;ll be around 5k x 0.03 = US$150 a day!! WOW...I must be dreaming.

Anyhow, can the owner of AllClicks reply or accept sites like mine from a banned country into the network. Would he consider? The site's in the profile too.

Other than what you've got, it all pretty much depends on what you want to do with your site. I would, however, add Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop, along with Fireworks. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses, depending on what you need to do.

You might also consider an image optimization program (if you don't want to do it in Photoshop). In some cases, I've got some folders with a lot of images in them that I use to make photo galleries for one of my sites. So, I run the image optimization program using the 'batch' feature to resize all the photos or manipulate them in other ways such as add a copyright notice to the bottom of each photo.

I also like 'search and replace 98', which allows you to change multiple lines in html files at once. This comes in very handy when a url or link changes. Or when you want to remove a certain advertiser from all your pages. It's freeware.

Of course, you have to add a good FTP program to your arsenal, but you probably already have one.

Another thing that I have that is very useful is not necessarily one application. I have, installed on my PC, a copy of just about every single browser out there. When I'm through making a change or adding to a site, I check the page in most of the different browsers to see how the page displays. I've got about 4-5 versions of Netscape and 4-5 versions of Internet Explorer. Also, copies of some of the other browsers that are available, as well.

Again, it would help to know what kinds of things you want to do. I don't have Fireworks, but I understand its pretty good. Photoshop is a big $ outlay for another graphics program...you may want to consider Paint Shop Pro as your second image editor.

Flash is always a consideration, but a lot of $ if you don't really have a use for it.

You might consider adding to your armoury of tools - Super Notetab,Textpad or Editplus. These nifty text editors are highly useful for editing HTML,JavaScript,ASP or Perl.

It does try to write the closing tags (if you set it that way) but the main beauties of the program are that it's color-coded rather than the blindingly blocky look of NotePad, and you can store snippets of code and assign them to various keys for faster coding. Result: faster hand-coding.

I am considering going half-and-half with Dreamweaver. Since you can "lock down" the layout in Dreamweaver, it might be nice to be able to write the contents in a wysiwyg.

Homesite has great search & replace functions, too. You can easily modify hundreds of files in just a couple of seconds. I agree with the previous speaker, Homesite is great.

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If DreamWeaver's internal text editor were HomeSite ...

Diane, it was with version 3 (if you installed it) but it was a pain to use. Although I am far from an expert, I would suggest that DW was the problem. Homesite was included with the software with V3.

DW4 vastly improved the way HTML was displayed but they didn't include Homesite with version 4 so I don't know whether it works better or not.

Talk is mostly about CF, especially CFStudio.

But I'm concerned that too much Dreamweaver and/or Flash will be added to Homesite.

If you like Homesite (and who could not like
HS compared to the other products?), I suggest you buy HS4.5 now. Cost is $89.

Your can try an evaluation version for free
at http://www.allaire.com/products/HomeSite

Tom Horn
Manager, RV ColdFusion Users Group

I started out with a personal site about radio controlled cars about five years ago... before there *were* any WYSIWYGs. I hand coded monthly racing schedules into complex tables using SimpleText, the Mac's equivalent of NotePad. Hated it! I bought PageMill 1.0 when it came out and never looked back.

Also use Photoshop extensively, since my sites have lots of pics. I like the ProJPEG plug-in from BoxTop (I believe) for being able to see what effect compression will have on image quality and file size prior to saving.

Not a "program" but one of the most useful tools in my arsenal is my 6x9" Wacom graphics tablet. I can't imagine trying to use a mouse in Photoshop or Illustrator these days. If you do a lot of graphics work, you will really appreciate a tablet.

And Fetch for ftp. It works just fine.