what programs do web designers use to create professional looking web pages?
i am just a beginner with this whole web and graphic design thing and i went to a dreamweaver courses, but it was very basic and i didn’t learn how to design web pages.
Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#htmleditors
HTML Editor Reviews – http://www.wdvl.com/Reviews/HTML/
Free Online Editor Tool: http://htmledit.squarefree.com/
Free Flash Website Builder (Online): http://www.wix.com/
PageBreeze (Free visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes): http://www.pagebreeze.com/
Mac users might want to download BBedit Lite, a more powerful, and free mac text editor: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite.html
Dreamweaver for Macs and Kompozer for windows and linux
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Photoshop is the industry standard for graphic design.
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The best way to do it is to design the page yourself, without any program automating it for you. When you do it yourself, you have total control over the look and feel, rather than fighting against some program to make it behave how you want.
That said, lots of beginners tend to like Dreamweaver.
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flash, dreamweaver, html, javascript…
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Adobe Dreamweaver
You do realize Dreamweaver is available for PCs as well, right?
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Notepad++ (free) or Dreamweaver for creating HTML.
Photoshop or GIMP (free) for creating graphics.
Adobe Flash or http://osflash.org/ (free) for creating Flash.
Internet Explore or FireFox for viewing the website.
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Adobe Dream weaver
microsoft word
heck… you can make a web page using notepad if you know all the codes.
i know some people can create some very epic things using notepad.
and if you take a basic dream weaver course then go take a more advanced dream weaver course, because now you know the basics
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Dreamweaver is an excellent program, and for beginners can make some great sites, but you need to understand basic coding to use it to its full potential. There are many free alternatives online that can do basic sites. Youtube has many Dreamweaver tutorials available to help with site construction and design.
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Let me give you some professional advice:
1. Forget Dreamweaver, Frontpage or all those "instant web page creator" applications. Creating good web pages first requires knowledge of HTML. You should focus on XHTML (slightly different from HTML 4) and in the coming year or so, HTML 5, which is already supported by Firefox. Use an editor and learn to code by hand. If you use Windows, I would recommend using a programming editor, like Notepad++, which is free.
2. Learn Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS allows you to separate layout from content. HTML should nearly always be used just for putting *content* on the page (what information you want the visitor to see). CSS should be used for layout (how you want to page to look).
3. Learning some JavaScript is a good idea. You can write great pages without it, but it can be helpful if you want to so some client-side interactive stuff. There’s a part of web design called the Document Object Model (DOM) which is closely tied to the functionality of JavaScript and allows you to do some of the JS tricks quickly and easily. Nice to know.
4. If you want to design pages that are not static, you need to learn a server-side scripting language and some database functionality. I would recommend PHP because it’s designed for that purpose, it’s not hard to learn, and, well…I use it every day. You should also learn how PHP works with MySQL, the open source relational database. They are commonly used together on many web hosts, and understanding how they work together can help you build some great sites. There are a bunch of good books on PHP and MySQL (often in the same book), and you can set up a little development environment right on your own computer that allows you to build stuff locally before pushing it to a web hosting site.
You can do all of this without spending a dime (except maybe on some books, if you like). PHP, MySQL and the editor I mentioned above are all free and open source. There is a lot of great material on the web. I would recommend you start here:
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
While this isn’t the most detailed or comprehensive site, it covers the basics for a lot of material, and I recommend it as a starting point and a quick reference while you work.
Now, the most important thing you can do is write code and create pages. That’s the only way to get good.
One more thing: don’t confuse *web* design with *graphics* design. Graphics design is done by graphics artists. If you know how to create graphics, that’s great – you can combine the two skills. If you don’t, you can work with people who do graphics work. But remember that building pages is learning the programming and scripting.
Good luck.
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I use Dreamweaver and Photoshop as well as Fireworks (to add punch to the graphics). But I also know how to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You could create a website in notepad and code everything by hand if you were that way inclined, but you would still need an image editor to design nice graphics. The GIMP would do it.
Contrary to what many in the hand-coding community will tell you, Dreamweaver is a very good program. It’s useful for people who are not interested in hand coding. That said, you still need at least a basic understanding in HTML.
There’s always more than one way to skin a cat.
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Professional Designers use photoshop to develop their graphics.
Professional Developers use a plain text editor (Notepad++) to code the workings of the websites.
Some, on requests from clients, introduce some elements of Flash, but only the good ones provide alternative contents (for those users who do not want Flash (for many good reasons).
No professional will develop a "Flash only" website: it is a non-starter and a commercial suicide (but good enough for a blog that only a few users visit…)
On browsers, professionals use, AT LEAST: IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari to test their sites, and from 800 to 1660 resolution.
Edit: If you are an artist, you can learn to design pages in a few weeks, but to become a professional developer will take years of learning.
Unfortunately, new-to-web "designers" using Dreamweaver for a week THINK they are home and dry. Nothing is farther from the truth. The interactive web is a very complex field!
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Pro at http://www.web2coders.com
Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#htmleditors
HTML Editor Reviews – http://www.wdvl.com/Reviews/HTML/
Free Online Editor Tool: http://htmledit.squarefree.com/
Free Flash Website Builder (Online): http://www.wix.com/
PageBreeze (Free visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes): http://www.pagebreeze.com/
Mac users might want to download BBedit Lite, a more powerful, and free mac text editor: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite.html
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Make a Webpage:
Full Web Building Tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/
Beginner’s HTML Tutorial: http://www.htmlbasix.com/
How to Create a Webpage: http://www.make-a-web-site.com/
So You Want To Set Up Your First Site, Huh?: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/article.php/3479561
Web Site Blog: http://www.instant-web-site-tools.com/blog/
http://www.w3schools.com/site/default.asp
How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner’s A-Z Guide: http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml
So, you want to make a Web Page!: http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html
Getting started with HTML: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/
Ron