Best Software and Tools for Web Design
Based on our experience we have found that the best web design tools are all Macromedia products, due to which we highly recommend to everyone interested in web site development to use these tools. Here's a small introduction to these cool Macromedia products and their respective features.
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Dreamweaver is the best web site development software/tool available today. We've been using Macromedia for a long time and highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in learning web site development. Here are some of its key features-
- It is a rapid application tool to design web sites hence benefiting most professional website developers.
- This tool generates HTML code for you, which means that even if you are not an expert HTML programmer, Macromedia Dreamweaver will help you develop a web site!
- A lot of cool stuff is possible using Dreamweaver such as rollovers, css styles, server side
- It includes templates and many more useful features
Tips on Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Fireworks
We highly recommend using Macromedia Fireworks to
- Design web site layouts, logos, graphics etc
- Optimize images and export them in the gif or jpeg format
- Make animated gifs, swap images, text effects and other cool stuff.
How to use fireworks?
- Design your sites in Fireworks to get an idea of what the finished site will look like.
- Send these layouts to your clients in the form of gif and jpeg images.
- Once the client approves a particular layout, use Dreamweaver to convert these layouts to HTML.
Macromedia Fireworks Tutorials
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia Flash is the best software for web site animation, and has gained a lot of popularity due to the huge demand for Flash web sites. The reason Flash is so popular is because you can do fantastic animations while still keeping the file size low enabling the site to load fast.
Note - There is a huge online community of Flash developers, so if you have questions or need resources like articles, tutorials, sound loops, flash files - it is all readily available on the Internet.
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