Which web design software do you use?

[shocksyde]

Anyone have any web design software recommendations? Price isn't really a problem because my work would be paying for it anyways.

I do have a (self-taught) bakcground in HTML and a little CSS, but I would like a program that does most of the work for me.

Any suggestions?

 

[pontifex]

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[George P Burdell]

Won't Photoshop + any decent text editor do? I use Textpad for most of my work, except for Rails, which I code on Eclipse.

 

[steppinthrax]

Dreamweaver. Its the only one.

 

[jjones]

Don't know how it works in Vista but I'd recommend Dreamweaver.

 

[pcnerd37]

I recommend Dreamweaver as well.

 

[shocksyde]

Ok, I'll give dreamweaver a go... thanks!

I don't know what the hell is wrong with Quark in Vista... It lets me work just fine, but when it comes time to export to an .html file or save, it just dies...robble robble.

 

[mugs]

Quark is web design software now?

I just use a text editor. I've never been happy with the quality of HTML outputted by WYSIWYG editors, including DreamWeaver.

 

[ThePresence]

Quark is normally used for layout.
InDesign is more popular nowdays.

 

[SpongeBob]

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[Drakkon]

The newest version of Dreamweaver + all the adobe tools works great on Vista. Get Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and you get justabout everything imaginable (photoshop, illustrator, flash, dreamweaver, fireworks, acrobat)

 

[mooglekit]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Won't Photoshop + any decent text editor do? I use Textpad for most of my work

Seconded, but I use notepad...call me old school, but you know exactly what code you're putting in if you put every character there yourself

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: mugs
Quark is web design software now?

I just use a text editor. I've never been happy with the quality of HTML outputted by WYSIWYG editors, including DreamWeaver.

Same. I just end up switching to code view and changing around what the WYSIWYG editor does for me anyway.

 

[TravisT]

Dreamweaver is really good. It will help you speed up your coding, but it won't actually do the work for you. Those that do probably result in poor code jobs.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: mugs
Quark is web design software now?

I just use a text editor. I've never been happy with the quality of HTML outputted by WYSIWYG editors, including DreamWeaver.

I don't either, but then I don't use the design view at all; I use DW only in code view.

That being said, I've heard that DW's design view output isn't that bad at all compared to others.

 

[necine]

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium

 

[Beau]

Aptana

 

[911paramedic]

Dreamweaver.

I came across this recently but have yet to try it, great concept though. It's for editing css across browsers in real time. I think it may only be for editing your css (if that's what you are using) and not starting from scratch though.

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