Opinions on web design software?

[faolan]

Okay folks, here's another topic for debate!

Having just come back to the land of the intarwebs (to steal a popular usage), I had to find myself a new web design client. I've used notebook/wordpad before to code HTML in the raw, I even used to use the old SoftQuad HotMetal Pro.

I've personally always hated the Microsoft Frontpage software due to all the extras it throws in for no reason whatsoever. I've not really used many other clients, and have recently settled on the Amaya client that is put out by the W3 Consortium. Since I try to keep my pages W3 compliant, the fact that it does both WYSIWYG and source is of a benefit to me, plus it has the validator feature to it.

So, my question to everyone is as follows: What is your favorite web design client, and why?

 

[Veivei]

Macromedia Dreamweaver, coz it's what I need, it's powerful and the default tutorials is easy to follow for new user. It can handle most of web extensions including CSS and more.

 

[The_Magistrate]

Stick with Notepad and Wordpad. You'll always design the best sites that way.

 

[t2t2t]

Macromedia Dreamweaver, coz it's what I need, it's powerful and the default tutorials is easy to follow for new user. It can handle most of web extensions including CSS and more.

For all free users out there:

Last up for today, let's look at Macromedia's--correction, Adobe's Dreamweaver. Though Dreamweaver is the acknowledged leader in the field (besting Microsoft FrontPage), there have been full-featured Web development editors floating around since the early days of the Web. KompoZer, built on the NVU architecture, is a good free option that is beginning to approach the functionality of Dreamweaver.

cNet's replacement for adobe CS3

 

[intheclutch]

The only one I've used is Frontpage. I don't know how it is with the other software, but I really like that I don't need to know how to code to get the page to look more or less how I want. Then I can click on a tab and find out what the code is, so I can attempt to learn how it's done. The one thing I don't like that much is every time I hit enter it puts a <p></p> tag. I haven't been able to stop that, so I've been removing that in the code...now whenever I want to enter, I just go to the code and put in the <br> thing.

 

[legendphil]

hao!

i used front page when I first built my site some few months ago, now I use notepad++, then viewing it via browser... I haven't tried dreamweaver yet coz it costs a few bucks beyond my allowance, but I'm saving up to buy my own copy.

(notepad++ is somewhat notepad plus, plus... highlighting, collapse... somethings that beat confusion during coding process)

 

[Jan-Sope]

in my opinion is dreamwever cs3,

 

[oblivionguardiansaints]

The only two I know of that are WYSIWYG Editors, is Nvu, and Dreamweaver. But yeah, Dreamweaver is probably the most popular.

 

[*Face]

Stick with Notepad and Wordpad. You'll always design the best sites that way.

No you won't. Notepad is fast but unnecessarily featureless, while Wordpad has all the wrong features for web development.

I would go for something like Notepad++ or SciTE, the latter of which I currently use. Doesn't hog the memory, is much easier on the eyes, and has some extremely helpful efficiency boosters (such as code folding).

 

[yearzero]

Front Page is the most easy

 

[Slothie]

I use a combination of dreamweaver and notepad. The editor lets me roughly position stuff where i want them to be and I finetune with notepad