Dear Lori and Rat's Brats, As a professional web developer, I concur with Patti Higgins comments regarding dreamweaver, especially the latest version. The accessibility features in Dreamweaver MX allow you to make fully section 508 and W3C Web Accessibility Initiative comliant pages. However for most people, Dreamweaver is very much overkill, now having become positions for the higher end of the professional marketplace - it costs around $400. Now here's somewhat of a nice way of getting a substantial cut in price. If you are a student or a teacher, Dreamweaver costs only $100. The Studio package, consisting of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Freehand and Flash, costs only $200 - commercially its around $900. However you have to be affiliated with an educational institution to qualify. If you're not, talk with a friend, relative etc who is. Anyhow here are some other accessibility resources that you might find useful World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines and page checker: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Center for Applied Special Technology: http://www.CAST.org They produce a free on-line accessibility checker that's now at http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp This is one of the best checkers around. I use it on most of the sites I develop. Macromedia also has a great accessibility resource center: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/ As for hand coding, I use a mixture of both hand coding (I program in ColdFusion, and its faster and more efficient to do so by hand rather than use Dreamweaver as far as I am concerned) and using Dreamweaver's graphic interface. However I would recommend that you learn to fully handcode the HTML first, that way if something gets messed up that the program cannot fix, you most likely will be able to fix it using NotePad, TextEdit etc. best regards, larry (owned by the Gang of Four - Ryoga, Possum, Augustus, and Osmar) PS, Augustus sailed through his surgery - so far he's doing great. I'll have some pre and post op pictures up within a couple of days - I have to edit them a bit etc. - larry -- Larry C. Lyons ======================================================== Life is Complex. It has both real and imaginary parts. ======================================================== Chaos, Panic and Disorder. My work here is done. [Posted in FML issue 4033]