What would you think is a good web design program besides dreamweaver and frontpage?

golive but no need to look beyond dreamweaver.. But Dreamweaver is simply a html editor, for graphics the best software you can use is Photoshop..

photophoto? thats the best software? then how come i've never heard of it and a google search brought up nothing?

ok I misspelled photoshop sorry... Moderators could you kindly change the spelling for me. thank you.

GoLive or Dreamweaver.

Homesite. Best text editor available. Avoid the deprecated, inefficient markup produced by Dreamweaver, GoLive and FrontPage. Code faster with tag completion and real-time validation. Comes bundled with Topstyle Lite (for CSS), which you can also download for free.

NoteTab and TextPad are good as well. Dreamweaver has a very good code editor based on Homesite, but why pay 4x as much for inferior software? Do yoursaelf a favor and avoid WYSIWYG editors until you have a good understanding of HTML/CSS and how the Web works - there's no reason to teach yourself bad habits from the very start, especially when a good HTML/CSS tutorial can be found free, and text editors are cheap/free as well. Once you do know code, there's a reasonable chance you'll choose not to use these programs anyway. I have yet to see one compelling reason to use them, other than some people are comfortable with them and are willing to go through what can be a monsterous cleanup job after a site's been developed!

Ok dude... don´t try to some hard pro style.. u won´t get to the top with out using Photoshop, dreamweaver,fireworks, 3d max studio,flash MX and finaly 3d swift.
This are only programs should be used in design or anything ;) trust me i tryed 100 other programs none of the can be better then this ..

I'm a big fan of Fireworks myself, and Photoshops is a close second for Web work (and it comes in first overall if you count print work too). But 3d Studio Max? And Flash is strictly a peripheral technology (it's a plug-in, not even a regular browser component!). The same goes for Swift 3D. Start with the basics - learn Flash later. A simple graphic program like Fireworks is good to learn, and you should learn coding. It's not hard at all, it's inexpensive, and you'll avoid learning a whole lot of wrong things right from the start.

3d Studio Max? For a beginner?

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Photoshop, is really good

There is nothing else but DW ;)

SWProduction, Photoshop for html coding? hmmmm DW for coding, PS for gfx..

Notepad :D

I design in photoshop and then code it all by hand in notepad (php, html, css, etc)

HTML-KIT. And, add the plug-in for HTML-Tidy. ;-)

text-pad or DW for an editor and Photophoto (photoshop) , Imageready, and illustrator :) for graphics.

I use Photoshop and Dw.

Notepad is always the way to go. Learning how to code yourself, and being able to code something yourself is always very rewarding. Going straight in and buying a WYSIWYG can lead to trouble when it doesn't do what you want it to, and you have no idea how to fix it through code.

Plus, for web standards, WYSIWYGs are not the best thing to go for...

I still think that HTML-Kit is a good compromise between hard-core hand-coding and the ease of a WYSIWYG... you can code fairly quickly (just not automatically) and you can preview the results immediately. It also has good editing support (search and replace, find, etc.) and has plug-ins to help w/ the job.
Best of both worlds?

These topics come and go on a daily basis on every forum i post, it's simple everyone prefers something different there is no best way to go.

I always created my sites in notepad, now i use dreamweaver, some say dw produces **** code, but since i worked with notepad first i just clean up the file and now iam able to work a lot faster and as clean as in notepad. That was my way out of the zillion options you have, you just need to find out yourself what suits you best.

Dw has the edge in the 'industry standard' if iam correct though

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