We used Trellian Web Page to design our two websites, but it has a few bugs. Which free design program do you recommend? Some of you will no doubt say that we should buy a program rather than use a free one. In that case, which do you recommend? Any advice will be gratefully received!
Expression web 3 is brilliant! I have used Microsoft products since front page 03. Expression web can also edit php, css, xhtml and a few others as well. Very handy software.
Thank you very much for the tip. I downloaded Expression 3 recently as a free trial but haven't read all the instructions yet. I will give it a try.
Notepad++ - I used to use dreamweaver but found they had so many shortcuts whilst coding I found that to make me more lazy. So i use Notepad++ now
Ok, mistake 1. That would be mistake 2 The answer yourthemes gave mimicks my own - but given what you are currently using that answer is just going to annoy you. Why? Because it's a plain text editor. I like crimson editor, yourthemes likes notepad++, there's editplus, gedit, the list is endless and they all are little more than overglorified versions of NOTEPAD. In fact, you could use notepad. Given what you said for software, you are used to what is called a WYSIWYG, which, well - see my signature. Dreamweaver, Microsoft Web Expression (aka the artist formerly known as frontpage), and all the other WYSIWYG interfaces are complete and utter trash. Anything that lets you work with designing the page using 'visual' drag and drop type **** is going to generate complete rubbish code with non-semantic markup, no separation of presentation from content, piss poor accessibility, and a dozen other shortcomings that make anything built in them such a miserable /FAIL/ that when it does time to get it done properly it all has to be thrown out and rewritten - EVEN the content. Using something like Notepad++, EditPlus or Crimson editor means you will need to KNOW HTML and CSS and put a lot more WORK into it. But that's why it's called work and not happy happy fun time - and is the difference between your people getting $20 a pop for trash templates that aren't even worth money, and professionals who can charge $100 a pop just to code a theme (that's not even including DESIGNING it)