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

I just get the plunge and subscribe for a year to Adobe Creative Cloud , $ 50 a month give me all the Adobe software. For now I'm playing with Muse, wow so easy. I have to get in illustrator and Photoshop as I need my own image to feed Muse or Dreamweaver.You can get Muse for $ 15 month, you even have 3 tabs to pass in mode, Desktop, Tablet and Phone, to see and adjust your website for those 3 devices, very cool. Give it a try for free for a month and do the online tutorial
 
I used to use note pad and photoshop for pretty much every aspect of my website and then I would use CuteFTP to upload it however I have recently discovered Coffee Cup HTML Editor which makes for easier code reading and has masses of tools for my disposal.

I use the same software to upload my site which makes minor changes to the site much quicker and allws me to quickly tweek sections untill im happy.
 
I am using WYSIWYG Web Builder from Pablo. The software is cheap and worderfull to work with for someone like me that dont do html coding. Also the community is great.
 
I use to design from scratch using dreamweaver but now I tweak free WordPress themes because it is faster.
 
I started out YEARS ago with FrontPage, quickly switched to Adobe Golive, and loved it. Then I saw the nightmare on the horizon where the good programs were going subscription based as in Adobe CC. I PANICKED and bought the entire Adobe CS6 Master Collection under a student license by using my college ID. AND it was a serious pain in the A-- to twist Adobe's arm to find a way to buy it. Every 2 min the sales guy on the phone was trying to force me to go with CC, so I just bought it off NewEgg for a price of....drum roll......$850.00 for the $7,000.00 dollar retail version!!! One purchase I will never regret. I will get a FREE boot strap template and build out from there. It was killing me to leave Golive but once I got into Dreamweaver CS6 I was hooked. I was always too afraid to jump into the steep learning curve of Dreamweaver until I found this guy on youtube. He had 3 videos totaling about 4 hours, very easy to watch and understand. It was all I needed to get moving.

Here is an example page I slapped together in half a day. I needed something for our techs to SEND IN CONSISTENT parts requests to our shop before they made me INSANE! So I built this tool to keep them organized for asking for parts and processing RMAs

Free template with about 3 hours of tweaking...
http://acsboca.com/
 
Choppie said:
I started out YEARS ago with FrontPage, quickly switched to Adobe Golive, and loved it. Then I saw the nightmare on the horizon where the good programs were going subscription based as in Adobe CC. I PANICKED and bought the entire Adobe CS6 Master Collection under a student license by using my college ID. AND it was a serious pain in the A-- to twist Adobe's arm to find a way to buy it. Every 2 min the sales guy on the phone was trying to force me to go with CC, so I just bought it off NewEgg for a price of....drum roll......$850.00 for the $7,000.00 dollar retail version!!! One purchase I will never regret. I will get a FREE boot strap template and build out from there. It was killing me to leave Golive but once I got into Dreamweaver CS6 I was hooked. I was always too afraid to jump into the steep learning curve of Dreamweaver until I found this guy on youtube. He had 3 videos totaling about 4 hours, very easy to watch and understand. It was all I needed to get moving.

Here is an example page I slapped together in half a day. I needed something for our techs to SEND IN CONSISTENT parts requests to our shop before they made me INSANE! So I built this tool to keep them organized for asking for parts and processing RMAs

Free template with about 3 hours of tweaking...
http://acsboca.com/
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$7,000????? It has always been about $2,500 when I have looked into it.
 
I'm pretty sure the price for the whole thing was around 65oo, but I could have been looking at a different pricing model. I Know it was a significant price cut for the student version. Okay, I just checked it out and 2500 is correct But I have a feeling it was a lot more before. 7K sounds a but much now that I think about it...but something I was looking at was that much, thats why that price stuck in my head....
 
I have been looking into learning web design, and have settled on inkscape, the gimp, and drupal. I have loved drupal, since I found it, around version 5 or so. My problem has always been the graphics side, and I can not even match clothes, so the colors I choose are horrid, and I am very poor at designing anything that looks good.
 
I use wordpress. For working with graphics/pics I use the gimp. If I am doing a video for a website I use Kdenlive. However, I am very poor at colors and design. My problem is - I create a site and then think its unprofessional and then go to make a change and then screw it all up. Then I start over. :(

The only reason my clothes match or is because I have a girlfriend.
 
I mock up the intial designs using photoshop/ illustrator cc. As for coding the site I used to use sublime text 3 but now use the adobe brackets editor since it integrates with photoshop nicely. The emmet plugin for brackets is like a gift from god once you learn all the shortcuts and will save you so much time.

http://emmet.io/
 
Jimdo for us. Super quick and easy and the SEO is great. We use photoshop and other adobe products for the images but Jimdo for the main platform. We use a free test account for mockups, then switch to the live account. We get sites up in a few hours this way once we have all the text. 1/2 day tops.
 
Wordpress is good except the issue comes with themes. Some themes are more advanced then others. I think the more advanced the more work is required. Although if easy it can be plain and not much customization.

I use "Local Business" theme. Free and easy to use. Works well for mobile as well.
 
IAMPC said:
I still use the good old FrontPage... Yes, I'm a dinosaur. :D
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o_O I forgot that even existed...

I tend to use notepad++ and write everything from scratch, I use SIA paint tool for any graphics work. Sometimes I may even use templates when i am feeling lazy
 
I normally use notepad++ and a bootstrap for pure html based site if it is something simple. If the customer wants something fairly flashy its normally more time/cost effective to buy a decent HTML template. When it comes to wordpress I prefer to buy a theme and customize it as needed.
 
Started with notepad (not plus) and coded from scratch. Then checked frontpage, hated it. Dreamweaver for a time. Then used Drupal for a few years. Now use WordPress and free / commercial themes. Illustrator, Photoshop, priemer for graphics, video. Notepad ++ for errors in code sometimes. I found WordPress to be cleaner than Drupal.
 
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