what is a best webdesign software?

[Geek-9pm]

Netfusion is a product of NetObjects
Version 5 is still very good for a starter.
http://netobjects.com/products/html/nf5.html

There are currently 3258
Web Sites in our Galleries
Created with NetObjects Fusion
http://www.fusiongalleries.com/

There is a learning curve with these kind of products. You have to forget about the details of HTML and all the low level stuff. Real people use this is kind of stuff because it works for them.

Also worthy of mention are PHP, Ruby on Rails, Pearl, Python and other tools that have a large library of things others have already done.

Oh. forgot ColdFusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Now a Adobe product and has a active community.

[reddevilggg]

Haven't yet decided if I want to fork out the bucks for Dreamweaver.  What do your friends like about Komposer?

quite user friendly and has a good text editor, it did everything we needed to do to complete our college course. I did all my assignments using Dreamweaver, as this is what the college uses,  but a few people used Komposer and got though all the coursework with no problems.

[kpac]

I have the complete Adobe CS4 Design Premium installed and I don't ever use Dreamweaver. Notepad++ is one of the best there is, IMO. I'd never use a WYSIWYG editor.

[soybean]

I agree that Notepad++ is a very nice tool for coding web pages.  Bluefish is another one.

[keyboardboy1]

what languages are you writing software in?

all kind of designing language i used.

[soybean]

all kind of designing language i used.

We love vague answers here. 

[reddevilggg]

We love vague answers here. 

Yeah............maybe!

[Thomas_Horscroft]

im for dreamweaver!!

[Zylstra]

I design websites as well. I actually use Microsoft Web Expressions and Kompozer. Web Expressions is just like DreamWeaver, I use it while I am working on Windows computers and making larger changes. Kompozer, I use when I am on my Linux laptop, and when making smaller changes that do not require changing the master template, or anything of that nature.

The main reason I use Web Expressions is because I got it free through the college MSDN.