Which Website Design Software Is The Best?

[Ryan Fitton]

I use Microsoft Front page 2003 for designing and manging my website. but i heared that in 2006 microsoft discontinued it and made two new products called Web expression and Share point server. I know how good Macromedia dreamweaver is and i was wondering wether i should buy Microsoft web expression or Macromedia Dreamweaver?

[thetestingsite]

My opinion isn't in the poll. Notepad (or Notepad ++) is; at least I find, the best for website design/programming. Then again, I'm old school and don't like to use WYSIWYG editors.

Sorry.

[Twey]

WYSIWYG editors are flawed in concept, and usually introduce so many errors into code that it takes a good knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript to fix them anyway. Factor in the amount of time and effort spent doing so, and you're better off having never used the WYSIWYG editor in the first place.

Stick with a text editor. Most of them are free, too.

[jscheuer1]

If I have to choose an application by a big name software company it would be:

Notepad

[djr33]

Dreamweaver is the best of those, and arguably of the WYSIWYG editors.
However, few people who do use WYSIWYG editors know enough about the code to fix it when the WYSIWYG editor causes problems, so it ends up being more trouble than help.

Front page is just terrible for compatibility.

Anyway, the answer is HTML.

These programs, and even notepad, just let you generate (by hand or automatically) html.... so... whatever helps you get the right html is fine. As long as it IS right, and frequently, WYSIWYG editors work you into a corner with oddly invalid html that is more of a pain to fix than it would be to just write by hand.

[BLiZZaRD]

Notepad here too

These programs, and even notepad, just let you generate (by hand or automatically) html.... so... whatever helps you get the right html is fine. As long as it IS right, and frequently, WYSIWYG editors work you into a corner with oddly invalid html that is more of a pain to fix than it would be to just write by hand.

So are you saying I can't produce php or JS or C++ in notepad? Bah!

[djr33]

well.... saying "text" wouldn't make much sense.
But.... let HTML represent all things like it... use DHTML+ if you'd like... css, JS, php, and... yes, if you'd like... C++.
Perhaps I should have said code.

But the OP is clearly interested in html, so that's why I responded specifically about that.

[BLiZZaRD]

Okay, so your statement was a broad category, not a specific one. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Shotgun Ninja]

Notepad.