Fair enough, and to be honest it'd be hard to transition from an existing site anyway. You'd probably find, though, that if you start out doing it by hand you'll have a much easier time visualising it.

And I wouldn't recommend Notepad, it's awful for code editing. I liked ConTEXT quite a lot before I managed to get over Vim's learning wall (now I have a hard time using anything but Vim - everything else feels awkward and slow). I wouldn't recommend Vim if this is a one-off thing, mind - it's only worth learning if you're gonna be coding full-time.

>I am not good at visualising what I have typed in notepad.

That's why you run a localhost web server, so you can preview your work rendered in real browsers. Anything less is just uncivilized.

Also, notepad is at the other extreme of functionality, one step above (barely) the green crayon. Try something like textpad in Windows -- it has syntax highlighting, and excellent re search and replace.

Yep.

 

Save....refresh....save....refresh etc etc

Coding is tedious...

Not necessarily, depends what you're working on.

Ahh, sorry my notepad of choice i notepad++ been using it for ages.

Shhh....

 

;-)