Software used

For image editing

MSPaint. Still use it for some things that can be done with it faster and better (like removing small artifacts from images).
Corel Draw and Corel Photopaint version 7 and 9 (I somehow missed version 8). Took me a long time to learn though.
I no longer use it, since my installation disks became corrupted and it is too old to ask for a replacement. I especially miss CorelDraw.
Gimp, the Linux program ported into Windows.
It has become indispensable.
Metacreations Painter Classic with my Graphire Tablet.
This is great for painting; it has the feel of painting on paper with real paints. This program is no more, since Metacreations was acquired by Corel, but there are newer versions of Painter with different names.
I have used Reptile for some organic textures.
Irfanview for managing and converting images. Absolutely necessary!
Terragen for digital landscapes.
POV Ray for Windows for 3D images (from wallpapers to bullets).
Cursor dance was used to make animated cursors.
For image conversion between programs that are incompatible with each other, or the conversion takes a long time or has not so good results, there is a key on the keyboard called print screen (or alt+print screen for saving the active window). It saves the situation many times. The result can be pasted in almost any graphics program and cropped at will.

The HTML was started (a long time ago) with Microsoft Frontpage 98, when I knew nothing about HTML.
It was easy for a beginner to write HTML knowing nothing about it, but as I learned, I found that it added more code than was necessary (like giving font names and sizes in blank rows, adding empty table cells etc.) and some pages definitely did not look good with Netscape or other browsers.
Now I only use Notepad or 1st Page 2000 or KompoZer.
HTML-Kit is used whenever I want to check my HTML for errors.
Links are always checked with Xenu's Link Sleuth.
I have also used occasionally WebTV Viewer to check my pages' compatibility with Web TV.
FileZilla is used to upload the pages to my server.

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