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Web design?????

Hi peeps,
Getting back into web design, but it appears
Dreamweaver is old hat. Got my head around
Web2 but what are developers using to build them?

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Permalink Reply by Iskander Cathal Mellakh on September 16, 2010 at 14:24

I still use dreamweaver, but I also use flash, and notepad++. I use php, mysql, html, and a little jquery. Photoshop, gimp for images.

Quite a lot of websites are done in wordpress, and tumblr too.

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Permalink Reply by Jez Timms on September 16, 2010 at 15:51

Depends if you hand code or not. I always have done and never relied on IDE's - so use Textmate to code the markup and CSS - then Adobe tools for graphic design elements of the site.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Sales on September 16, 2010 at 17:59

Sounds like I need to get my head around language...
Wordpress looked interesting this site was well built
http://www.bungobox.com/
I use flash but everyone seems to be avoiding it.
I am building a site soon so experimentation is in order.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Müller on October 19, 2010 at 18:03

hand coding is the only way forward - create leaner sites that load faster and produce compliant code (as long as you know it) :D

Dreamweaver is okay, but I prefer Expresso/Coda or mostly TextWrangler...

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Permalink Reply by George Hammerton on June 28, 2011 at 11:36

Coda gets my vote, beautiful and powerful app.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Müller on June 28, 2011 at 11:48

Good man!

I have settled exclusively on Coda nowadays - and also monodevelop for my c# app development ;) take a look at Honeyrun HD - itunes or market and let me know your thoughts :D

I know you are intrigued now... don't be shy :)

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Permalink Reply by David Marsh on October 20, 2010 at 10:37

It does not matter what you use so long as the end result is a site that has the right W3C and Google approved code. Dreamweaver offers a great way of building good sites. Hand code can be better as Dreamweaver has some strange ways of displaying certain code. Flash has the usuall problems of donwload times, anti-virus does not always like it and Apple tends to avoid it so things like iPhone, IPad & itouch cannot see your applications.

Dave