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Which program do you use to design your web page?

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Occasionally I start with FrontPage for gross page layout.

Then either Notepad or Visual Interdev to put in the server side scripting. Interdev rocks.

If you add server side code, never, EVER, let FrontPage open that file again. It'll screw the code up faster than you can say "backup copy."
 
randal thats a pretty damned nice homepage... much better than mine (which hasn't been updated since... last century, at least)

lets see...
back in the day i used frontpage 97. it made pretty good basic code, didn't have a ton of tables for everything like frontpage 98 did (you make a blank page with the word "hi" in the corner and it made a table of it!)

used dreamweaver 3 and flash 3 to encode the new part of my site (its hidden!)

sometime (when i feel like it) i'll put up a new site at a new domain (i can't believe my last name, lebold, has been registered by a frickin' domain squatter company :|) and i'll use DW4UD and flash 4 to work it.
 
For small, dumb pages, I use Notepad, but sometimes I also use CuteHTML for the colored tags 🙂

But for bigger pages, I usually use Dreamweaver 4 to design the site itself, and I use Notepad to touch up some code or to add some custom javascript or anything else. I haven't played much with Dreamweaver's advanced functions, so that's why I still have to use Notepad to edit some pieces of code... and that's also why I don't understand a thing about Ultradev 🙂 hehehe

For the graphics, I use PSP7. I've been using PSP since version 5. I have Photoshop 5 and 6 on CDs (backups... 🙂), but since I began doing webpages on a P200, it used too much memory so I got used to PSP, and it does pretty much anything I want. I'm not really into graphics.

And to transfer files, I use CuteFTP. I discovered FlashFXP, it has a NICE interface... but I'm too lazy to copy all my bookmarks one-by-one from CuteFTP to FlashFXP. I had LeapFTP in the past, and tried several others, but I always found myself coming back to CuteFTP.

my 2 cents
 
I lay out the tables in FrontPage Express 2000, and do the rest in Notepad. I create all my images in PhotoShop 5.0. I use LeechFTP to upload. Sometimes use CuteMAP for image maps and OJ Button for some J-Script. Web site is in my sig...
 
Just out of curiousity...can someone give me a rough idea what the differences are between the standard version of Dremweaver & the Ultra Dev. version is? I have been using the standard version since DW2 first came out, but I'm curious if I am missing anything major. I am using DW4 standard right now, but I will try & dig up the UD version if it is worthwhile.
 
NetObjects Fusion is a very good site authoring program if you don't want to use HTML. It actually doesn't let you see the HTML part of it. You can make a great looking site, especially if you develop you own site style, but you won't learn to code with it. I did alot of my early pages with the Netscape composer, it is easy to use and actually works quite well.
 
I used notepad back when I first started, I think it's important to develop an understanding of HTML code before you can truly build excellent webpages. Like I said I was a hardcoder using notepad.. until I realized that.. it took too darn LONG. 🙂 Every now and then I use it for certain things, to clean up code, to add special types of things, minor changes, etc. Primary I use Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 5(Great for quick buttons and what not), Photoshop 6(For more detailed images), and Flash5.
 
Dreamweaver UltraDev, Flash 5, Ulead Photoimpact (only use the text effects), Adobe Photoshop and HomeSite!

For all you notepad users, use homesite!!! The edit mode is far more powerful than notepad (no, really?) but it is still complete control over the coding. It changes the colors (not cheesy rainbow colors) of different tags so you know right away if you forgot to close it or made an error or something, and the different colors makes it easy to find different scripts and tags and it is easier on the eyes. It also has a built in preview mode. Homesite is the hard coder's ultimate tool. It is by far the most powerful hard coding utility I have ever used. It makes quick work of making tables and etc, it fills in closing tags can check your code for errors, it is an incredible piece of software. I have a hard time being weaned off of it towards WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver. I still use it as my external editor in Dreamweaver. Homesite is the best man.


At least download the demo and give it a try:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/trial/
 
Dreamweaver
BBEdit (Mac)
ColdFusion Studio (PC)
Fireworks

While Fireworks may be a graphics program, I consider it a primary tool in the development process. Even more so than Photoshop. I love Dreamweaver and absolutely loathe FrontPage. Heck, even MS has banned employees from using FrontPage on MS web sites. It creates terrible code, encourages lazy or even bad coding practices, immediately ruins programmatic web pages (ASP, ColdFusion, PHP...), and it opens web servers using FrontPage extensions to security risks.

Learning code is paramount to doing good web work. Dreamweaver is only a tool to assist, not a replacement.

Some sites:
Work homepage
My project (The interactive TV examples here are my work too, but the Newshour is a collaborative with PBS Newshour.)
Wisconsin Vote. Slow right now.
Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest
Creating Health


 
I am nearing completion of my first ecommerce site and the only tool I used was editplus. I wrote every single line of code by hand (php and html). I used to use Dreamweaver 3 and FrontPage 2000 but they screwed up tables whenever they got complicated, so I just dumped them altogether. EditPlus was totally worth the registration fee!

You can see a beta of that ecommerce site here.
 
Hahhahaa, yea, that cat picture is hilarious.

As for my homepage being kick ass, well, I don't know about that. The current incarnation isn't near as cool as I want it to be; I have *some* of what I want to have be the final product done at http://randominc.org/default.php ... even a poll! Hahaha ... it's not quite as administratable as the current one [yet], but it should be a more pleasant experience all around soon.

php guy in training,
randal
 
FP 2002 with a touch of Adobe PS....

btw anyone have any 'links' to dreamweaver, i want it back... PM, appreciated.
 


<< i use photoshop, dreamweaver and notepad. notepad less and less since dreamweaver has better html viewer now. >>

Same here, works like a charm 🙂
 
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