I like to keep the tools I use pretty simple - but I've been doing this for a long time and some of you may not have the more expensive tools.

Eds favorites - I don't ever recommend many other products - so I do use and find those helpful. I 'make' most of my graphics with xara products - and even many web templates.

For the more 'commercial' end - I recommend Gimp or Photoshop and DEFINETLY dreamweaver for your web editor. If you need to wait before you can afford dreamweaver check out NVU - it's free and does enough to get you going.