text: website design? in what program is written (or how is built) a site like yahoo! or hotmail? i mean, i am interested on the part of it that deals with opening an email account...selecting and username and password, and creating the personal data. how is this done (software name, technology)? well, 1st of all, for designing a web-portal (e.g. yahoo! google, msn) we must design the template using adobe photoshp or any other one! then, we make the pre-codes of the site using html and css language with the help of some web designer software like macromedia dreamweavor now, we've got the basis of our site! we need to make it work! so, we use some programming languages and scripts which r available on the net like php and asp, on the other side, vbscript and javascript etc... we can connect these kinda languages to mysql or sql in order to have a good database... anyways! there's a long long process in order to make a good site!...