what do web designers use?

Question

adobe photoshop or macromedia fireworks ? dreamweaver ? Is Excel good? let CSS do the whole control? macromedia flash good?

Answer 1

I hand-code web pages in Adobe Dreamweaver. Its code view helpfully colour co-ordinates the html and css code so I can read it much more easily; and if I forget a css attribute DW helps me figure it out. Dreamweaver is also really handy for big websites when you need to do a lot of 'find and replace' and need site-wide reports, and for publishing the site using FTP. Only problem is the cost, it's not cheap.



Adobe Fireworks is a good web graphics tool although not as fully-featured as Photoshop for general graphics work.



I've heard mixed reports of NVU which is a free and open source web design product: simpler than Dreamweaver but perhaps better for the hobbyist or someone with just one website to run, than the professional.



Don't use Microsoft Front Page: it creates ghastly code.



Microsoft Web Expression sounds like a much improved version of Front Page but if you work with PHP code, bad news, it doesn't support it.



And what about the owners of the website? How will they update it?



Adobe Contribute is easy to learn and relatively inexpensive web content editing software and will work with static web pages created by any other software.



WordPress is a free and open source content management system that can be installed on the client's webspace. Or there's Joomla, Mambe, and many more.

Answer 2

Most web developers, will use Photoshop for the basic site design, and slice it up to the pieces they need,

from there they hard code everything, programs like dreamweaver are HORRIBLE as they have many useless divs and such that makes it hard to work on the file later.



Using any of the Microsoft Office products for web development is a horrible idea, most of your sites would not work on non Microsoft web browsers, therefore closing the door to many users.



You should use CSS to do most of your styling, that way all browsers will look at the data and design the same way, since you've explicitly defined what you want each piece to be

Answer 3

It usually depends on the company that you are working for. Some companies may require experience in different tools even that these tools do the same thing but they are from different software companies.



Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash are some of the requirements that a web designer needs to know to work.



Try to at least get a basic of each of them and then you decide which one is the best for what will you do.

Answer 4

It depends on the theme of the web site. If it is commercial purpose then we should go for animations softwares. If it is educational purpose use dreamweaver for better designing. Whatever It may be we should apply our own creativity to web site designing. Then only we get clear idea.



According to my point of view dreamweaver is best for web designing. If you want to create more interactive web site, then you should go for flash for animations and all.



Without flash we can give more interactive web site by means of CSS. Try to use the following web sites for these purposes

http://www.dynamicdrive.com

Answer 5

for designing the sites they use photoshop.and if u want to add some interactive kind of thing use flash,or some time dreamweaver that is bases on user (designer). using css and html and javascript for some small kind of interactive.

if u want any qs then ask me.me a designer and devolper,

Answer 6

All those stuff that you've mentioned are being used by a newbie and experts web designers, except Excel.