Website Building Tools
There are numerous tools available for developing websites. Some of them are free and open source, while others are proprietary. Each tool has their own unique features to help you accomplish your goal of building a website.
Website Coding Tools
I use Dreamweaver for all my website designing and coding. I have been using it for about five years now. The interface is extremely easy to use and is very powerful. It will support development on just about any type of file used on the web. Syntax highlighting is very helpful for the many types of scripting languages available for the web.
HTML Kit is an open source development platform for website files. I have used HTML Kit for the development of websites where Dreamweaver was not available to me. The menu system can be a bit overwhelming until you get to know how to use it, but it’s well organized and very useful.
Graphic Design Tools
For graphic design work on websites, I prefer Adobe Fireworks. The interface is very similar to Dreamweaver and is very easy to navigate. Fireworks is not as powerful as Adobe Photoshop, but it should be able to do everything you need to for the web.
Paint.NET is an open source graphic design platform which is powerful and easy to use. It was originally intended to replace Microsoft Paint. The best part about this program is it’s free.
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