Best web design program

[namanimal]

Which would you guys consider is the easiest/best web design program? Frontpage or Dreamweaver or something else I havn't heard of.

 

[Clarity Pictures]

Dreamweaver 8 is awesome. Simple to use, expecially if you dont know coding etc. You can download a free 30 day fully functional trial at www.macromedia.com

 

[firestorm]

Dreamweaver is setting the standards for now. For free ones, I would suggested NVU and Amaya and GIMP as an alternative to photoshop.

 

[namanimal]

I bought dreamweaver a few years ago, but I never used it. Even an old version is still good right?

 

[Epic]

NVU is a great free web editor if you don't want to spend any money to start out. After that I'd go with Dreamweaver or do it by hand

 

[VI5]

On ease of use DW is awful, use frontpage is it really matters.

Being honest I can hand code faster than using dreamweaver (and now I only hand code due to it being tableless).

 

[namanimal]

I bought a 500 page book on web design back in 1998 or something before all these easy programs came out. After I learned, and found these programs, it pissed me off a lot for wasting so much time learning to code when now its drag and drop

 

[TGN_Merchant]

I guess dreamweaver is the best. Programs like this are great and all but it pisses me off that know newbs and can make websites. Using dreamweaver requires use to have the ability to operate a mouse..

 

[peter phillips]

Frontpage is suitable for beginners when they have the basic formatting knowledge like in MS Word. Dreamweaver, it's much more professional and flexible and the code it produces is much cleaner.

Another advantage of Dreamweaver is that it gives less errors in general browsers.

 

[LeetPCUser]

Frontpage is atrocious. If you are goning to go with any programs use Dreamweaver. Then I would say look at the code and learn what it does. You can learn in Dreamweaver because you can view both the code and see the visual.

 

[kevinmoran]

what about golive???

is everyone forgetting about golive? i use to use dreamweaver but i found that golive was allot better for updating files within the site. why does everyone think that dreamweaver is the better web design program??

 

[vipbc]

front page 2003, You can see the image(webpage) and code at the same time as well.
Split screen format.

 

[snareklutz]

Golive - excellent for CSS2 and CSS1.

 

[smub]

Dreamweaver is the best out of all

it is a big program to start if you have low ram .... but anything above 512 is good

it is easy to use and have alot more options

 

[brewmonkey]

I would say Dreamweaver is the best but FP2003 would be #1 for ease of use right out of the box.

The problem I have with FP is like others pointed out, too many errors when viewed in browsers other then IE.

 

[The_Ryan]

dreamweaver and flash 8 are the best to code in IMO.

 

[leviathon]

Photoshop/ImageReady Slicings are most preferred by me. Afterwards I often use DreamWeaver 8 to finish the parts up. Frontpage is great for newbie web designers, as its CSS, Php and Asp etc. components aren't as nifty as DreamWeaver

 

[webtopia]

How to "polish-up" CS2/ImageReady sliced websites?

I'm a newbie! Buit a web site using Photoshop CS2 and Imageready. It works, but it loads kind of funny because it loads each individual slice--is there a quick fix for this effect using Dreamweaver?

Also, I need to insert a CGI-bin script from Paypal to accept donations for our non-profit, but when I past the script into the code it looks great in Firefox, but completely destroys the layout in IE--anyone else experience this and have some advice??

Many thanks!

Webtopia

 

[thomaslgates]

Dreamweaver for me.!

 

[slaughterbeck]

I’m a dumb blonde but even I can build a have decent website from scratch with Dreamweaver. It’s almost completely idiot proof.