Okay so what if I am a loser and just use the really easy FrontPage? Can I do cool things like the GreyBox with that? I really am not good with tech stuff ya know :-)

Sam, check my post "Lightbox JS" on the tech blog.

Get Linux and use vim, you sissies.

Sal, in order to do what you have just told me to do, I'd need to be at least somewhat proficient in any sort of computers or web development. I use FrontPage because it is the easiest freakin thing I've ever seen. I'm trying to do some of the stuff Tim has showed me but I haven't figured it all out yet. I'm workin on that. :-)

I have to say that, from long annoying personal experience, VIM sucks sucks sucks, and i will refuse to use it in any professional setting as long as i have a say about it. I have no quams with linux, and have actually been lamenting the fact that i have no spar boxes to put linux on and get accostomed to using it. But i am familiar with vim from my comp sci classes, and my gosh, i hate it!

Then use emacs. :-P

Find yourself an old/cheap computer and throw Debian on there. Or Ubuntu, perhaps. Once you get used to it and get everything set up, you won't miss Microsoft except when you want to do any complex work with audio/video or something like that. Kind of annoying that something like Fruity Loops or Pro Tools doesn't exist for Linux.

lol, well, i think it has more to do with my visual style of thought and development, although i do handcode most of everything i do now. I think i just dont like being seperated from my mouse, and i like the tools i have on my pc better than whats on linux. Plus, given the programs i need to use, a pc just makes sense. I sent away for some Ubuntu linux cd's recently and got them in the mail abit ago, i look forward to fiddling around with that.

See, I'm just the opposite... I've never owned a computer that could really handle graphics-intensive applications without slowing it way down, and I get annoyed with all these crazy features in software that I have absolutely no use for, so being able to operate exclusively from a prompt is appealing to me. Also given the fact that I've had pretty massive problems with Microsoft products over the past few years, I have no desire to give Mr. Gates any more of my money.

Like get this..... out of nowhere, Windows on my laptop decides it won't boot anymore. Okay, fine, everything's backed up, so I'll just format the HD and reinstall. I reinstall it and browsers refuse to work and Windows keeps shutting itself down - and I hadn't even once connected to the internet. I install a virus checker, AND IT FINDS THREE VIRUSES. ARGH.

That's not to say that I don't have complaints about Linux - for example, finding an unrar utility that'll do rar3.0 has been driving me crazy lately - but it's vastly more customizable than Windows (at least my distro is), a hell of a lot more stable, most software doesn't cost anything, and operating from a prompt is just a hell of a lot more efficient in most cases. And apt-get is possibly the coolest idea ever.

I should also add that KDE rocks.

apt-get is pretty cool, i must say.

i am also slightly jealous of KDE...

Bwahahahahahahaha! :)