There are many editors available which are suitable for authoring web pages. One good way to get started is to find a page you like, save it to a file (choose “Save As…” in your browser), then load it into the text editor of your choice, and start modifying it.

If you don't want to use a Unix editor such as emacs or vim, there are good text editors available on other platforms: on the Macintosh, BBEdit is a good choice, while on Windows PFE (Programmers File Editor) is an excellent editor.

If you don't like doing things this way, there are some fairly good WYSIWYG editors available. For Windows, you can use Macromedia's Dreamweaver (available as part of the faculty toolkit), or on Linux you could try KDE's Quanta.

Microsoft's Frontpage should be avoided, as it produces nonstandard output which may fail to display properly in many browsers.

You can edit images on Linux systems using gimp, a free, Photoshop-like package.

Files and documents which can't easily be reformatted as HTML are probably best converted to PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). You can do this using either the full version of Adobe's Acrobat (from the faculty toolkit), or on Unix/Linux using ghostscript.

Existing paper documents can easily be transferred to PDF files on the web using the multifunction printer/scanner in room 216 (TODO: link to the scanner page).

TeX documents can be converted to HTML (with some limitations) using the Unix program tth (TeX-to-HTML).