Need to Learn Basic Web design

[wiskic10_4]

Yeah - I've been using TextPad since I was a sophmore in college - it's a nice simple editor. I've decided after several days of searching that most developers do "hard code" their sites, and I'm beginning to teach myself (however slowly) how to build a good looking page by mimicking what other people have done on sites that look nice to me, and I d/l a few free templates to go off of.

Thanks to everyone who replied. Gore - vim? Really? I'll bet you use lynx to surf the net too... (looks above at the browser list) Wow - I'm not surprised. Die hard old-skool! w00t!

I'll spend some time doing some trial-and-error work, and maybe I'll post some links to whatever I can create and ask for more pointers. I know that this is a security site, but doesn't look like this place gets near the traffic it used to, so I'm sure ya'll won't mind!

Also - I'm wanting to set up a sftp server on a Windows XP lappy that users can log into and upload/download files via the webpage, and have the file list w/ the file info (including the user who uploaded it, when, file size, times downloaded, etc) and implement a size restriction. Any ideas as to how I could go about doing that? I can set up an ftp server no problem, but I'm not sure how to tie that in to a webpage...

Thanks for all the help.

[edit] Also - can anyone recommend a free domain name service? I used to use .co.nr, but as I recall, it wouldn't redirect certain sorts of traffic (i.e. wiskibottle.co.nr would come up in a browser, but in a shell ssh wiskibottle.co.nr wouldn't go through while ssh 123.456.789.123 would...)[/edit]