which software you guys are using to design your website

I use plain Notepad, Gimp, ImageForge and IrfanView, all free programs. I never liked the way Dreamweaver creates websites, and Photoshop is too costly.

 

Photoshop for designing and Dreamweaver/Notepad ++ for developing.

 

I have to agree that photoshop and dreamweaver are a perfect duo in building and designing your website

 

I use Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, Notepad and Fireworks (rarely)

 

I started my coding with Notepad. But for now Dream Weaver is my best friend it help me to reduce a time for development firebug is a very useful for CSS debug as well. My graphic tools are Photoshop and Illustrator.

 

I've been involved in the online marketing industry for 7 years and through the years I've realized that the look of a site is completely dependent of the end user, I've seen sites I absolutely hated the look of become massive and sites that were a killer in usability that didn't succeed. So I have to agree with innovati People are the one and only deciding factor if a site makes it or breaks it.

 

I prefer dreamweaver and fireworks =/ but it might just be a personal preference

 

When I'm coding a web design I'm using dreamweaver and for other stuff like PHP coding I use jEdit.

 

I use Joomla; powerful, beautiful, and always advancing. Kind of like a Porsche or a Ferrari.

Start here :

http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners

 

you can't use joomla to design a site you can only use to run it

 

This is somewhat true for those who do not have css capabilities. You can customize the default templates of Joomla and have your own custom design. Technically, you are right.



If I could design my own Joomla template I would be much happier, though.
I am not a graphics person, and that wont be happening soon.

 

dreamweaver is always best but its expensive

 

I use Dreamweaver, you can use it if you are expert or not. it has may extra functionality like markup validation.
you can make any kind of script or style sheet from it.