What is the best software for a web designer?

Answer 1

Excluding all the budget ranges you are left with:

Dreamweaver - not cheap, but very good. The whole range integrates reasonably well too - with the CS3 Web Premium Suite being tasty. Circa $399 for the basic Dreamweaver or $1,599 (or about £1,399 - $2,800+ if you buy it in Europe - B****y rip-off !!!) for the suite.
http://www.adobe.com/web/

Also by Adobe is GoLive. Never used it myself, but only ever heard good things about it. (Circa $399)
http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/golive/

Microsoft Expression Web : seems OK
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/

Forget Frontpage - the code it churn is utter junk!

If you want to know what most experienced web designers use - it's a notepad!. I favour Textpad myself but most older web developers can't stand the poor code that design packages churn out and have their own favourite text editors.

Answer 2

I code all my pages from scratch........ well, kinda.......
Four years of creating my own unique CSS Templates.
I can snap up a complete website with five or more
pages, Drop Down Menus and very kewl graphics, all
because I took the time to learn how to do this - in less
than an hour.

WYSIWYG Editors will NOT teach you HTML, and if
you get stuck and can't make something work, you are
a dead duck. Take the time to learn basic HTML. Here's
how I started 5 years ago at the Newbie Club's "Page
Tutor". It's free to learn.
http://pagetutor.com

Here's a quote from Joe Barta who teaches this Online
Tutorial.
"You should USE A TEXT EDITOR (or text based editor). Forget about Front Page, Dreamweaver, MSWord or Fredo's Monster Page Masher. Some time in the future if you really want to use one of those programs, you can wrestle with them then. For now, use a text editor!"

Here's his recommendation, (and mine as well)
NoteTab Lite at: http://fookes.com

Learn Web Design the Right Way - With Style...

All the Best
ClaireP

Answer 3

If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a "homepage" which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. And if you use the Netscape browser, the built-in Composer feature is a superior HTML authoring tool. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage. Nevertheless, the "homepage" URL is likely to be "http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name" and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., "mydomain.com" which allows you to link any registered domain name to "mask" another website. For example, should you type in "domainname.com", you will be immediately transported to the homepage and the hompage URL of http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name will be masked by the domainname.com. And the charge for the redirection service [even at godaddy.com] is normally FREE. Here's a demonstration: Type in the URL window: "www.pizzanextdoor.com" which will bring up their pizza website. Take note of the domain name. Then type in the URL window: "http://home.pacbell.net/vten/1a/pizzamen... and you will see that this is the original homepage which is unmasked without the domain name!

Good luck!

Answer 4

Dreamweaver is an excellent software, I use it in my web design in school. However, it costs $400. I would suggest checking ebay.com for it.

Answer 5

Adobe Dreamweaver.

Answer 6

Dreamweaver. It's the best of the drag and drop web page builders on the market.

Answer 7

layout: Photoshop, Corel Draw (much less used) progression: text fabric editor, which includes Notepad++, and a variety of of different adventure. Dreamweaver CS4 is stable, and you're able to be able to save on with this link to verify a thank you to apply Dreamweaver CS6, that's much greater advantageous. version 4 is stable for many stuff, besides the incontrovertible fact that it doesn’t somewhat understand HTML5.

Answer 8

well it depends how good you are with web designing
if you are a beginner then this is good and readymade software
www.bluevoda.com
and for professional web designing
dreamweaver8 is best software

Answer 9

im just a kid but the two easiest ones i have used are microsoft frontpage and dreamweaver....to me frontpage is easier [and u can use rollover images and marquees--those are always fun haha] but on dreamweaver you can do page transitions which make your page funner for the viewer. in my class at school we had both so we could switch between the two.

Answer 10

I user Microsoft Pulisher for rought design and NotePad++ to tweak it.
It is also very good for C++, XML, Java,...