Requirements

A computer and internet access is essential. Any computer that is only a few years old is suitable. Broadband internet access is preferred.

A basic knowledge of how to manage/create/delete files and folders on a computer is essential.

Software

To keep costs down and to avoid costly upgrades, I use free software where possible.

Below is the list of software that can be used.

Operating System	Windows XP but Windows 98, 2000 or Vista could be used
Word Processor	OpenOffice.Org Writer (free) or Microsoft Office Word (using Office 2000 at present)
Graphics Manipulator	Irfanview (free) or Gimp (free) or Microsoft Photo Editor (in MS Office)
Web Editor	Amaya (free) or MS Front Page (part of Microsoft Office)
PDF Viewer	Foxit Reader (free) or Acrobat Reader (free)
PDF Creation	Inbuilt in OpenOffice.org Writer and recent versions of MS Word or PDFCreator (free) to create and merge pdf's
PDF utilities	PDFTools (free) to join/split pdf's
HTML checking	CSE HTML Validator lite (free) Xenu Link Sleuth (free)