Easy Web Design Software

Developing a successful website that you’re proud of is not as hard as you may think. Especially nowadays, because there is software available that takes on much of the work that used to be relegated to the webmaster (which is you!).

In the past, in order to build web pages from scratch, you had to know HTML, or “Hyper Text Markup Language.” And truth be told, you are still better off knowing at least the basics of HTML. Nevertheless, it’s not required. Especially if you find easy web design software that does the main work takes care of this for you. Now, every single HTML editor on the planet now features a “WYSIWYG” interface. (What You See Is What You Get.) So, theoretically, you shouldn’t have to know the first thing about HTML tags.

The truth is, however, not all HTML editors (or “web design software”) does WYSIWYG well. Little annoying problems tend to crop up. For example, say you typed the following sentence using your handy HTML editor:

“Discover the best places to SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands.” Say you want “best places” to be italicized and “Cayman Islands” to be bolded. Here’s what’s supposed to happen:

Behind the scenes, your HTML editor is supposed to ‘type’ the phrase as such: Discover the best places to SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands. (Extra spaces were added between the tags for this example, in order to keep the article publishing software from handling it like normal HTML.)

But instead, this is what you get: “Discover the best places to SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands.” Even though you highlighted the words “best places” and clicked the little graphical icon on your html editor’s toolbar that represented italics, your phrase comes out non-italicized. And your bolded words are not bolded.

Well, in this instance, you’d have to go to the “Source View” of your HTML editor and manually insert the above HTML tags to make these things happen. This is a very annoying problem with too many popular web design software titles nowadays.

Another problem that will have you pulling your hair out, is seeing a totally different result in the web browser than you see in your HTML editor window. For example, your formatting changes are (apparently) taking effect as you type–just as it should (remember it’s advertised as WYSIWYG)…

However, they don’t show up when you publish the page to the internet! I don’t know why, but this problem still plagues most web design software to this day.

Lucky for you, there are a few (very few) good software titles that work for cheap, while doing all the other things to make your site professional and (if you want) draw visitors by the hundreds.

Web Traffic Machines
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Web Traffic Machines

Web Design Studio 4

• Suite includes Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4, Flash 5, and FreeHand 10
• Dreamweaver 4 for creating and managing Web sites
• Fireworks 4 for creating and optimizing Web graphics
• Flash 5 for low-bandwidth Web sites, engaging graphics, and more
• Powerful productivity features for graphic designers with FreeHand 10

Price:

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Upgrade from CS4 [Mac]

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• Achieve painterly effects with lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and with expressive vector-painting tools in Illustrator, or easily create eye-catching 3D artwork with new Repousse in Photoshop CS5 Extended.
• Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image selection tools in Photoshop Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator, and intuitive object selection features in Adobe InDesign.
• Use new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 to transform Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content and navigation components for web pages and user interfaces without writing code.
• CS Live online services link your desktop design software to the Internet to boost efficiency in activities that support day-to-day design and production. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Upgrade from CS2/CS3 [Mac]

• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium combines Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Fireworks CS5, and Acrobat 9 Pro
• Achieve painterly effects with lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and with expressive vector-painting tools in Illustrator, or easily create eye-catching 3D artwork with new Repousse in Photoshop CS5 Extended.
• Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image selection tools in Photoshop Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator, and intuitive object selection features in Adobe InDesign.
• Use new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 to transform Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content and navigation components for web pages and user interfaces without writing code.
• CS Live online services link your desktop design software to the Internet to boost efficiency in activities that support day-to-day design and production. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.

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Question by slb936: Which is the Best/Easiest Web Design Software to use?
I am beginning in the web design business, Which software is the easiest and which one has the most creative designs? I am looking into Dreamweaver CS3 how is this to work with?
Also with web design software is there a place to link to you domain name (nameservers setting?)

thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by Cole
I’m not really sure if you’re a big business, but for small time stuff, you could go to webs or blog.com. If you want your own domain name though, (and you’re still a small business) you could use iWeb, which allows you to upload to your own server. These are both graphic design methods, so they’re not the most flexible.

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