which soft ware is best to design a website?

Notepad++ and Photoshop!

For Graphic design:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Fireworks
Gimp

For coding and testing website in local network:
PHP Eclipse ( support for most of the web languages, great support for xhtml/css templates with aptana plugin )
Xampp

I would NEVER advise You to start with:
Dreamweaver
Any kind of program that is WYSIWG ( What You See Is What You Get )

Hello,

I work with: WYSIWYG Web Builder 7.

I am very satisfied.
You can really anything with them.
You can even create your own templates.
Uploading is easy if you're using the free program: FileZilla FTP.

Very pleased and I recommend it to everyone.

I hope you can do something with this?

Greetings,
Internet Marketeer.

Just about everyone that answers this will give you a different answer!

The reason that there are sooooo many different web design programs out there to choose from, is because we are all different and what suits one person does not suit another or the business model they have set up.

There is no definitive answer because we don't know your budget or whether you want to make a website for yourself or commercially.

If you want to make ONE website then Dreamweaver is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

My recommendation is to use Photoshop to design and layout the website. Then you can slice it and create the HTML / CSS with NVU.

NVU is a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver but it is Open Source (free to download).

Yes, NVU and Dreamweaver are really 'heavy' on the features. But once you design your own website, you'll get 'hooked' and want to start designing more and more websites. So learn how to use programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Learn how to use the software with websites like W3C Schools and Lynda [dot] com.

I hope this helps!

As they have said, it depends on your level of experience, whether you will ever want to make another one, or change your mind on the design at some later date. The reason so many people use CMS like Wordpress is because we all like to change the design at some later date. If you have no experience, it is very easy to use a program called Artisteer to create templates for Wordpress, as well as Blogger blog sites, Joomla and more. If you want to spend time, effort, and learn a lot, go with some of the other software packages mentioned.

I really like the Adobe suite... Dreamweaver was a bit tricky to master when i first started playing around with it but i followed a tutorial that was thewizard.com or something and followed step by step and soon found that it was pretty easy as long as u know how to start!

for beginners deamweaver.

Dream weaver is best for designing of a site.
it have lots of modern function.

Photoshop, Flash, Front Page, Dream waver these are tools are require to design a website

I can't believe nobody has said EditPlus yet. Even for those that prefer Dreamweaver (which imho puts too much bulky code where it's not needed) it's always a huge benefit to have a simple text editor with syntax highlighting .

But to answer the question properly: photoshop (or gimp), edit plus and a bottle of aspirin.

I use Adobe Dream Weaver CS4 and advice you the same.

Hail ADOBE!

I recommend WebPlus x4 it's the best I have tried. Easy to use & no HTML knowledge needed.

I use Note Tab Pro and Artisteer for the most part, and a variety of graphics software. Once you have learned some good coding skills you can use a number a tools together and really design some good custom work.

Hi

I agree with Pointer today there are so many software available...so its depands on you which software suits you,and you are comfertable with that..
Here's the best web design software available in the market today. We highly recommend using these web design tools to develop professional and attractive websites.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Adobe Flash CS4

Adobe Creative Suite 4

For me, it doesn't really matter what software one is using, may it be paid or open source. The bottomline here is for a web designer to produce quality graphics and site lay-out.

I go for Dreamweaver and photoshop.

Coda.

Enough said.

Dreamweaver is the lazy man's way of doing a website I personally don't like WYSIWYG programs... but that's just me. I like to do and see the code myself. Coda is a very nice application. It includes a FTP, text editor, css editor, terminal, and preview site tab.

I think as PURE text editor and css editor nobody here will argue with bbedit and cssedit. They are normally seen as the leading applications.

Also, if you don't know much about coding or anything of the such, and want to get an entire website up, you would be VERY smart to use a CMS. Wordpress is the easiest, then Joomla, then Drupal.

In our company, the usual tools visible on our desktops are Adobe Dreamweaver, Corel Draw, GIMP, Photoshop, Notepad++, Adobe Fireworks, and much more. We usually need tons of softwares to keep us running.

combination of adobe photoshop and dereamweaver for better design results

as everybody had said. it depends on your level of experience.. on my experience, it is somehow easy to use MyPHP and MySQL as its database.

I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Fireworks. I think they useful and good. They are not also difficult !!!

If you want the best, get Dreamweaver. If costs quite a bit of money, but it is a great program. If you want free, then download NVU. If you don't want to spend a lot of money, but still want something good, I suggest Microsoft's FrontPage. I have never used it, but I have heard that it is a fairly good product.

Photoshop is Must-have
And you should use dreamweaver to design your site

Adobe Dreamweaver (ani version) is Best to designing the Websites. We can edit images/design layout with the help of Photoshop and creating the animations using Flash.

Dreamweaver is the best to design a website from my point of view. Because it has some essential features and also it is simple to use. The toolbars on it are left floating - when designing pages this is simply the best way to do it. Features of the web page, such as the behaviours or timeline can be edited in a much more organised and faster way in Dreamweaver.

I don't know how to use Website design software, but i heard that many people use Photoshop and Dreamweaver

just use wordpress dude, its free and has tons of free themes to download. if you use rapidshare or any file sharing service you're laughing.

Well it depends, if you want to do it yourself from scratch you can use Dreamweaver and Photoshop, NVU is more to the open source side, but most of the time I would get a Joomla cms or Wordpress cms and then search for a template, www [dot] rockettheme [dot] com is well worth it

All these softwares are good for designing a website. The foremost thing required is the creativity. Once you have the idea, you can make it in photoshop and then import it in dreamweaver to make the final page. This is just a start...

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is the best web site development software / tool available today. If you are a professional web designer looking for a tool for rapid application design, web sites, this is the best option. This tool generates HTML code for you, Cool stuff you can use Dreamweaver includes rollovers, css styles, SSI, templates and much more.

Its got to be Adobe CS5 Dreamweaver.. it performs well

I think it depends what you are trying to do and what your budget is

Wordpress is ideal for a basic site and is free with some good templates around, xsitepro is around $200 and is great for sales sites and affiliate pages or adsense sites etc and does some of the SEO for you

if you are looking at the higher end more protfessional website then you are looking Dreamweaver etc

I use xheader and gimp for my graphics both which are free although I also have Fireworks

As i said depends on what you are trying to do, what your budget is etc

Del

a pencil and paper.

Hi,
instead of buying a software with high cost i prefer to go on with Opensource CMS which is now being used to build professional websites

Nice sharing friend, I think Dreamweaver is best option for you attractive web designing. I am using this, and i am really happy from it. Its provide me so much useful information. I suggest you to try Dreamweaver. Thanks for sharing this.

Dreamweaver is the best but it may be a little overwhelming at first for the beginner. Once you start using it and grasp it, it becomes easier to use. I recommend getting the book: "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS5 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP". This book will show you step by step how to setup your own local testing environment and how to use a lot of DW's features as well as developing websites.

CoffeeCup is another alternative to Dreamweaver.

I used MS Expression Web 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 (for the design), Illustrator CS4 (for vector images).

I use Xsitepro for 8 months works great, much easier than anything else I tried, good support, easy FTP panel, you can install it on 2 PC, I sell websites 300-700$ that take me 4-10 hrs at most..A great investment..
By the way can anyone help me find mobile website buider that I can buy and that is up to date with the latest technologies (not one I have to pay monthly fees)
Thanks

I'd stick with free software, as it appears you're quite new to be asking such questions?

Best not to waste money until you've got some experience of what you like/need/etc

But even then... you're like to find open source satisfies all your needs!

Pick an open source content management system (CMS). I'd recommend Wordpress, alternatively Drupal or Joomla.

Then for any extra fiddling you need to do use:

Notepad++
GIMP
Firefox (and fireftp)

I have tried most everything over the past 10 years..

I am now using word press along with snagit for quick graphic work

things are SO much easier now than they used to be

Don't buy CS5 Dreamweaver, it's way too topheavy, try Composer [Kompozer] open sourced and light weight.

In my point of view these are best softwares for web designing:

• Adobe Photoshop CS4
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Flash CS4
• Aodbe Creative Suite 4

Use Adobe photoshop for designing, Dreamweaver for creating web templates and Flash for creating Flash objects.

I like the Wordpress site and you can us OptimizePress to create your product landing pages. Hope this helps!

I use Frontpage. Quite easy and straightforward to use, plus publishing your webpages is very easy with this. Recommended.

dreameweaver

"NetObjects Fusion" - True WYSIWYG Website Design Software. Built on a Drag-and-Drop interface. Add database functionality with ease. Databind any object on the page to any XML or RSS feed.

To make a design for the website Adobe Photoshop CS 2,3,4 are best. To code that design in HTML Adobe Dreamweaver CS 2,3,4 software is good

You can get a plenty of software in one search.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
I hope this will help you in creating professional and attractive websites.

Hello...........

First of all you have not mention here which kind of website you want to design......if you are a beginner for this job then i would suggest you HTML ...because it is basic and best for beginners.

I Think .Net is One Of The Best Software To Design a Website.In That Software,You have to Just Drag-Drop the Object as Per Your Requirement.It's a Product of Microsoft.It Provide some facility Like Services,Authentication, CSS and so on.It is one Of The Best Software Which i have really Used.

all the listed software for designing are good but it is not for the dummies. i know for such joomla software is the best and easy to understand.

I use NVU - free website builder. It's really an awesome tool...

It really depends on your level of experience... but with that being said. I created a course called beginlearningdrupal.com
Helps total newbies build websites.

RD

hello


if you know any CMS then use wordpress or joomla. otherwise dreamweaver is the best to design a website.

Thanks

Pencil and paper, then Adobe Fireworks for me

The biggest trend nowadays is to base the site around a popular opensource CMS like WordPress or Joomla and then customise it using Photoshop for your graphics and Dreamweaver for playing with your code!

I really like the Adobe suite ... Dreamweaver is a bit 'difficult to manage, when I started to play with, but I followed the tutorial, which was thewizard.com or something, and then gradually, and soon I realized it was pretty easy until u know how to get started!

I use Adobe photoshop and than Dreamwaver. THis is the way how i work

For me, it really does not matter what the software is helpful and can be paid or open source. The fund is there for a web designer to produce quality graphics and site design.

In the USA the normal programs that are taught to a graphic designer at university level, are the adobe products. Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver.

It may not be the same in other countries. Of course they teach you to hand code also, but then move you onto a program that speeds up the process Dreamweaver. I personally do not use it lots, but as I do slowly start to use it, I like it.

I'm not sure what the universities teach with if you are just a webdesign major, but I am pretty sure that it is Dreamweaver all the way, which is the same the Graphic Design degrees require.

I think that you could get away with Photoshop and Notepad++ if you knew css very well. But having a program like Dreamweaver lets you see a split view as you go, which is handy.

Since I like to hand code and am endeavoring to switch to Dreamweaver more often, I try to think of Dreamweaver as an advanced Notepad++, the main problem is that Notepad++ helps to find the open and closed tags. But for some strange reason Dreamweaver is not set up to do that? At least not CS3 which is all I have.

My Toolbox:

-CS5 Dreamweaver (Web Design and Programming)
-CS5 Flash (Interactive web)
-CS5 Firework (Layouts)
-CS5 Photoshop (Graphics)
-CS5 After Effects (For video squezee pages and video marketing)
-Microsoft Web Expression 3 (Alternative... Useless sometimes... )
-Notepad (Yak...)
-GIMP (Sometimes...)

There are numerous software available out there that are best and easy to use such as TemplateToaster, Dreamweaver. Both are good at, its own and easy to use, TemplateToaster is more advanced than Dreamweaver as it allows you to design themes (or templates) for all the major CMSs, you can easily design fully responsive themes, automatic code generation, multi browser and device compatibility, page layout option in WordPress and many more latest features what is TemplateToaster -TemplateToaster. These features make this tool different from other softwares.

Dreamweaver should be for your first website if you are tying to create a simple html website

for codding sublime and for the graphics surely Photoshop and illustrator .....there are also others but mainly these are used by major developers and designers ....also you can easily find tutorials for it ....

I love to say dreamweaver, photoshop and for mock up balasmi mockup

For beginners, Dreamweaver is great! However, as you gain more and more experience, you'll see that you'll be able to write the code yourself and Notepad++ (or something similar) will be enough. As for the graphic design part, I'd say Photoshop, but there are numerous other options (free or paid).

Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

Choosing a software to design a website depends on the experience of web designer. Mostly designers choose Notepad/Dreamweaver and PhotoShop.
Notepad- If he has good programming skills.
Dreamweaver- Good for beginners.
PS - For graphic design.

Micromedia dreamwaver, webpage maker & etc are best.

Web Easy Professional 9
WebSite X5 Evolution 11
Adobe ColdFusion 9 Standard
iLife 09 for Mac OS X
This are the best software to built website.

Nobody mentioned Webflow or Pinegrow

I am recommending wordpress or joomla in addition because of the available templates extensions and plugins.

No software learn to code without the help. It will be better in the long run.

Hi,

I have tried one of best graphic design software name is boxshotking. It is easy to use and gives you quick method to design attractive and creative design in just two minute.