What programs do professional web site designers use?

**EricRE** · 08-24-2010, 07:43 AM

What programs do professional web designers use when building websites?

Are there a whole slew of programs they use side-by-side?

**EricRE** · 09-23-2010, 12:52 PM

Great, thanks for your straight to the point, yet detailed responce

Have heard of approx. 75% of those and have actually used a good portion of that percentage. Will look up the others and try to connect the peices, thanks for your responce!

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**stubbs** · 10-29-2010, 08:19 PM

Professionals typically use the Adobe suite and do the majority of coding by hand via a text editor. Some of the semi-pros tend to slice their pages up via Photoshop or Fireworks.

The best advise would be to learn a programming language if you plan on making your own content management system (such as PHP, ASP, etc). The advantage of learning over hiring a guy is that you can save a lot of money. Regardless of what language you are coding in, you should have a based knowledge of HTML.

In regards to the design portion, a good working understand of Photoshop, Flash, etc-- can get you started-- but you do not necessarily need to know flash. But having a strong grasp of Photoshop or Fireworks is a plus. Once again, the advantage is that this can save you a lot of money...

Of course, having a good eye for design is required to really be strong as a web designer. It's far easier to learn the logic of programming, read up on security tips/methods, etc.. Then it is to learn how to make something pretty-- Some people just do not have the natural ability or the patience.. While some have the natural gift and would have never known it.

My suggestion... Practice practice learn read... practice practice learn read... If you on a deadline or someone else's money-- hire a professional until you are comfortable doing it yourself.

**akash007** · 12-01-2010, 12:58 PM

I use the following, in order of their use:
Notepad
AceFTP (FTP program)
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Fireworks (graphic design program)
Visual Studio 2005 Professional
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Putty (for telnetting into Linux servers)
Remote Desktop (for interacting with Windows servers)

**KevinAlthaus** · 12-01-2010, 06:18 PM

Remember - even someone with the best design tools can make bad websites. I have seen great websites that RANK WELL made with basic web editors.

**boundlessmartin** · 03-18-2011, 10:25 PM

Dreamweaver and adobe photoshop.

**wjgoodman** · 03-22-2011, 07:41 AM

I use Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver... however, the software doesn't make the design. The designer does. You can use notepad and a free image editor and get the same results.