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I am doing a website, as im sure ive said before.  I am having trouble with the photos and stuff, they look really rubbish.  I am using illustrator, but can not get it to do what I want.  Any one know ne good programs? or and online guides.

Adobe Illustrator? isn't that for vector graphics? I've never used it so wouldn't know, but would imagine it's probably not the best tool for the job. If your having problems with pictures being the right size on your page it's more likely to be something in your html. Can you go into more details about the problems you're having?

Illustrator for logos (vector)

Photoshop for photos (bitmap)

For free you can get 'Gimp'.

It's a top notch program and will do everything you need. It's basically a free version of photoshop, much in the way Openoffice is a free version o MS Office.

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

Have a look at my avator, I want to do that, but it looks crap when I put it on the website.  Basically I just need to make little buttons for navigation. Any help :)

Photoshop and Fireworks are your best bet

Fireworks is ace for buttons and the like, Fireworks is my tool of choice, although i'm still in the dark ages with version 3.

Gimp will do you buttons, but without the finesse of something like Fireworks which is built for that purpose.

Best way to do buttons is use CSS, and lay an inline list over the graphic/s. Gets the same effect, nearly, with little bandwidth.

Create a 1x1 gif of your desired colour then stretch it under all the CSS links, job done. It can be quite hard, but easy way is to get a decent CSS template and modify it.

http://www.freecsstemplates.org/css-templates/

where's that over my head smiley, i could do with a few of them now

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/overhead.gif

I was hoping that sonic or whits would add my 2 efforts to the tef emoticon directory.