Powerful freeware for web design

Which software are the best and powerful enough for web designing?
Let say that I want to make a website template for general business and personal.
Thanks.

 

Adobe Photoshop definitely

 

as long as it's strictly for web design & not print (Logo, flier, embroidery, etc..) then I would point out:

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Fireworks
Serif WebPlus
Corel CorelDraw
Corel PaintShop Pro

all 5 of the above have a web ready slicing tool that will output your design in XHtml. "Serif WebPlus" will output your design in both XHtml & Css.

For editing the code:

Adobe dreamWeaver ---- Editor with code & design view
kompozer ----- (Free opensource editor like dreamweaver with code & design view.)

There are many other small softwares out their, I've just named the most popular.

Good luck!

 

Photoshop is definitely the choice.

However for freeware, I doubt there's any that's powerful enough. =) If you are well coding oriented and have seen a great lot of websites, you might also be able to code a general busienss template from scratch that's not bad.

 

GIMP is a free alternative to Photoshop.

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

 

Ok, I named mostly paid in my last post & missed the part where the thread starter only wanted free software's. So here's the top contenders from my personal list of FREE software's:

Totally Free OpenSource Design Software's:

(For Raster/Paint) GIMP Or GimpShop <<~~ This version is laid out like PhotoShop.
(For Raster/Paint) Paint.Net
(For Vector) InkScape
(For FLASH) OSFlash
(For 3D) Blender
(For 3D Rendering) Ogre
(For 3D Rendering) OpenSceneGraph
(For 2D Animation) Synfig
(For DeskTop Publishing) Scribus
(For screenShots & Presentations) WINK
(For Rendering) LuxRender
(For Converting Batch Images) ImageMagick
(For Diagrams) DIA
(For Graph Plotting) Graph

Totally FREE, but not opensource Design software's:

(For Raster & image manipulating) Serif PhotoPlus 6
(For DeskTop publishing) Serif PagPlus SE
(For Vector & Paint ) Serif DrawPlus 4
(For 3D) Serif 3DPlus 2
(For WebSite design) Serif WebPlus SE

Totally Free Opensource Code Editors:

XEmacs (website)
Kompozer - wysiwyg (website)
NotePad++ (website)
sciTE (website)
Vim (website)
BlueFish (website)
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Thanks for the list. It is a good one.

However Coda is not free.

 

I just checked it & you're right, they now only have the free limited version & the paid version so i removed it from the list