Whats the best program for web design?

[Seldimis]

Well will somebody tell me, we are talking about web design tools, web developing tools, editors, server languages, what ??? :confused4:

 

[Sharon White]

Perl is a powerful script language not designers tool.

You are right, my 'needs' does tend to be rather different and my reasoning goes astray.

If it makes any sense, I recently used perl to generate website 'designed' for search engine to crawl through.

The meaning of the word 'design' has slightly shifted in meaning in my head.

Sorry.

 

[webhostec]

heh everyone can have different oppinion about everything

 

[Meksilon]

Nothing is greater than Notepad. Do you really want to learn a WYSIWYG editor instead of HTML?

 

[webhostec]

WYSIWYG has it is function ... for example you need to make a page like this and every post has a different color. Ok you'll copy/paste the tables and diffs but to change properties on everything is a hard work with notepad. It is far more easy to do it with point & click in WYSIWYG editor.

 

[Meksilon]

You can do it with CSS very easily.

 

[GregT]

Nothing beats VIM and Gimp, my tools of choice.

 

[kaliboy2g]

I use DreamWeaver for editing
Photoshop for images (rarely use)
Smart FTP to upload. ( or just go to ftp.mysite.com and cut and paste)

 

[jmiller]

Nothing beats VIM and Gimp, my tools of choice.

Agreed, VIM and Gimp all the way.

 

[webhostec]

Agreed, VIM and Gimp all the way.

Yeah!

 

[cowax]

Ive been using 1st page 2000 and photoshop for years(god I'm getting old) now. Makes a great combo for me

 

[jmiller]

Ive been using 1st page 2000 and photoshop for years(god I'm getting old) now. Makes a great combo for me

I used 1st Page 2000 from around September 1999, up until September 2003.

I used to swear by it, however since I am no longer running Windows it isn't an option.

 

[kaliboy2g]

Front Page. For some reason that is bothering me. I still use it now sometimes but i got dreamweaver and i like it more

 

[jmiller]

Front Page. For some reason that is bothering me. I still use it now sometimes but i got dreamweaver and i like it more

I personally cannot bare WYSIWYG editors, but to each their own.

So long as I have syntax highlighting I am happy.

 

[kaliboy2g]

I need to use WYSIWYG editors. I am not that good at professional designing a site. I just download a premade template and customize it to my needs

 

[GregT]

That's not designing at all.
That's called editing.

 

[jmiller]

That's not designing at all.
That's called editing.

Yup. I agree fully.

Designing is usually from scratch, not by modifying an existing file.

 

[Robert]

Back in the days I use to use notepad. Now I use Dreamweaver to make tables, but mostly notepad to make modifications

 

[hostbreak]

i use Dreamweaver, Flash MX, AdobePhoto Shop, Front Page, last but not the least Dreamweaver UltraDev and offcourse Notepad the Great and CuteFTP for uploading aswell

 

[kaliboy2g]

Yup. I agree fully.

Designing is usually from scratch, not by modifying an existing file.

Techniqually you are right. I have designed some sites from scratch, my current one is compeletly from scratch www.freeneeds.com so i do design sites