Originally Posted by email marketing expert

Katlyn, I taught myself HTML by reading several books for beginners and experimenting with the code in Frontpage. The ultimate software for HTML is Dreamweaver from Adobe but it is quite expensive so probably not the best thing to start with. notepad is good but as you've probably found out you have to preview the code in your web browser. Try looking online for free HTML authoring software. I am slowly learning more and more and have just built my website to help me practise CSS. Good luck with it.