What method/software do you use for web design??

[BadBoy House]

We don't do a great deal of web design - we get requests occasionally for simple 5 or 6 page websites - nothing complicated just an online presence.

We tend to create the site layout in Photoshop then once the client likes the design we export as HTML via Image Ready and craft the site in Dreamweaver.

I've been playing around with Adobe Fireworks recently creating the layout and then using Dreamweaver and crafting the site solely by coding in HTML and CSS. This is ok but it's not as easy as the Photoshop/Image Ready export to
Dreamweaver method.

I'm interested I what methods others use for developing straight forward websites. Wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything.

Cheers.

 

[mau64]

Wordpress is our favorite.

 

[nightkingdoms]

The mighty program I use to design entire web sites? gEdit. It's a text editor that does syntax highlighting. Well and Photoshop for image design. That's it. lol

 

[Eric@noware]

The mighty program I use to design entire web sites? gEdit. It's a text editor that does syntax highlighting. Well and Photoshop for image design. That's it. lol

gEdit and not Bluefish? C'mon man...

As to the OP's question; for the time being I'm using coffeecup (I know... I know...), but just picked up a copy of Dreamweaver CS6.

 

[TimJacobs]

gEdit and not Bluefish? C'mon man...

Oh come on..... Go old School and break out vi.....

On my windows box I have CS5 and notepad++ and on my Linux box I have bluefish and gedit.... For graphics I use inkscape and gimp on both windows and Linux.

 

[kwest]

I buy from template monster then tweak for them. Easy

 

[nightkingdoms]

gEdit and not Bluefish? C'mon man...

Oh come on..... Go old School and break out vi.....

Haha No vi for me, hated that thing. I switched to gEdit for the cobalt theme, love the reverse colors when staring at PHP or MySQL stuff for hours.

As far as templates, I do use them in some cases, but only bigger clients. Small clients I make them myself or grab a template monster. Larger clients I use Theme Forest only.

 

[1on1 Computer Services]

Microsoft Windows, brought you by the same people that brought you Edlin....

 

[krtechsolutions]

CMS made simple using templates to get started

Gimp and photoshop when needed

 

[Rosco]

dream weaver cs5... didnt see the point point of upgrading this year its money better spent elsewere. very happy with cs5.

 

[maclaptech]

I still use the good old FrontPage... Yes, I'm a dinosaur.

 

[nightkingdoms]

I still use the good old FrontPage... Yes, I'm a dinosaur.

Holy crap, do they still make that? lol

 

[rockhoptec]

Adobe Fireworks for graphics and Rapid PHP 2011 for everything else since it can handle everything from HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, ASP, XML, SQL and basically anything else. The cost is very reasonable as well.

 

[benh4889]

The one we use at my place is sublime text 2. Its a purely code based so theres no design view option like in dreamweaver, but its small, sleek and simple to use.

Its a free license, it just has a message that pops up every so often to which you just click cancel, its the best software iv found so far

 

[tminer]

For Web I use dreamweaver cs5 and have been using it for over 12 years back when it was macromedia ultradev. Sometimes I use notepad but rarely.

For Graphics I use fireworks cs5 it intergrates with dreamweaver, has easy batch processing, easily optimizes image quality and size (not as important as it used to be with slower internet). I also use photoshop when needed to do initial work on templatemonster or other psd templates.

I plan on upgrading to the creative cloud cs6 very soon. $50 a month and can install it on two computers.

 

[mau64]

To clarify a bit more, my business uses google developer to easily find files. We use that in conjunction with Coda 2 for Mac for actual coding. Coda has a search feature but google chrome developer makes it easy to find exactly what you are looking for.

 

[tarik]

microsoft expression web when needing to alter the small amounts of code that i do.

 

[Ctrl-z My PC]

I normally use Photoshop for graphics and mock ups, then Notepad++ to write the actual code. Notepad++ is free, has LOADS of plugins and features to make it easier to code (syntax highlighting, auto completion, etc).

Some handy web tools if you are worried about comparability across different browsers / screens is the IE tab plugin for chrome, Screenfly (screen fly allows you to test your website in tablet formats, and phone formats, useful if you are worried about responsiveness.

 

[nightkingdoms]

I think it's also important to note that I use toolkits for web design. Makes jobs a lot easier and standardized. The two I use the most are Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery Mobile.

Never liked Boilerplate because of the lack of elements and jQuery UI makes everything look like it was made in ASP or .NET. lol I usually use Bootstrap with customized themes and extra CSS to make it the way I want like bolded button text.

 

[goldmercury]

I hire some cheap workers on odesk.com do do my design then get them to implement it as a wordpress template.

Let the pros do it and it will awesome

Last one i did: www.laptopscreenrepair.co.uk

every part of this was outsourced

Site design: odesk.com $150
Logo design: fivver.com $5
Video: $300 - corporate video sharks