What is the best web design software?

[av8erab]

What is considered the best software for someone that is going to start a web design business. I have been using FrontPage 2003. Any tips from the pros?

Thanks

[MatthewHSE]

EditPad Pro w/ WebDrive and a good graphics program.

Don't need anything beyond this! ;)

But if you're after a WYSIWYG editor, try asking in the WYSIWYG forum [webmasterworld.com]. You'll get better answers there.

Oh, and if nobody's done it yet, Welcome to Webmaster World!

[Corey Bryant]

You need to know HTML at least these days on designing a website. FP offers a lot of "extras" that unfortunately require FP extensions installed on the server to function.

-Corey

[henry0]

UltraEdit

[pmkpmk]

What is the only true religion? Who is the greatest rockstar ever?

Basically, I think the "WebObjects Authroing Server" was the best collaborative web-design and content management solution I ever saw. Unfortunately it was discontinued a few years ago, and it never received the dedication from the development team which it would have deserved.

What I prefer now is GoLive to quickly construct a prototype, then manually fine-tune the generated HTML and then use this as a template for a CMS (currently I prefer Typo3).

[katana_one]

I like to use Windows Notepad for most of my HTML and CSS design.

[mikec]

notepad will actually add in wierd characters sometimes that you won't even see. I never thought so until I had it happen and screw up the php on one of my pages. I finally solved the problem when i opened the file in EditPlus and saw the strange characters that weren't showing up in notepad.

[rocknbil]

^ ^ That is likely due to a binary transfer of a text file, or rich text is involved somewhere in the line. Windows and Linux see line returns differently.

Macromedia Homesite has all the tools to make hand coding as fast as WYSIWYG, including completely customizable quickkeys, tag autocompletion and contextual pop-ups, collapsable code, and several internal code validators set for any level of HTML spec (validate for HTML 3.0, 4.0 transitional, etc.) and tons more. If you get the MM StudioMX Suite, it comes bundled with Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver (WYSIWYG editor,) Fireworks, Bradbury TopStyle Lite (a CSS editor,) and Homesite. For $899 (all 6 apps) MX is a pretty good deal.

Homesite is $99.

[Reflection]

I'll second Homesite.

[cartone]

I use Textpad to write my html
ACDsee to view the pictures
Photoshop to edit the pictures
Lviewpro to bulk resize/optimize the pictures
Visual Source Safe to handle my versions

[txbakers]

Textpad is the best.

[Lipik]

I use Editpadpro for a long time, and I find it the best solution. And not expensive, good support..

[Iguana]

I've always used a mixture of Visual Studio (I'm a Microsoft programmer by day), and notepad. But I've recently been using Homesite for the indenting of the HTML and XML and also for it's built in HTML validation. It's very impressive and I'm going to buy a copy myself