Which software do you use to create websites?
I'm about to switch from the PC world back to the Mac world, after an absence of about 6 years. I currently use Fusion (PC) for website work. I'm told I can continue to use it with Virtual PC, but was wondering what program most Mac users were using? I'm not into html coding and am most interested in a WYSIWYG approach.
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You can't beat code coded by hand. You'll also feel unknown pride when you are done, not because you did something great, but because you learned something.
I have heard really good things about Freeway but I have never used it.
Originally posted by Belvadere
Are you guys using Dreamweaver and GoLive TOGETHER? If so, just curious about interfacing the two?
Personally I have GoLive installed, and only use it to create tables and forms (I'm to lazy to type in this informaton myself). But other than that I use BBEdit to create all my code. I usually program websites wiht JSP (preffered) or PHP.
When creating dynamic content, I find that its better to write the code yourself, rather than rely on some application to create it for you (more controll). Also, I find that WYSIWYG apps dont create code that validate against the W3c standard...
.:BoeManE:.
It's the only option.
wait....that's a bit old
Live updating of your webpage as you create it. Mmm!
Adobe Golive and BBEdit when the result needs to look sexy.
xemacs at school...
BBEdit is particularly nice when you have to write PHP pages, while xemacs often has a hard time with them.
With Golive, it's very easy to create nice-looking pages, but the output code often looks weird (sometimes totally ugly!), so you'd better edit the pages output by Golive...
If you were to take the step and learn some decent html, I would recommend Tumult Hyperedit that offers live previewing of code in a very elegant way, and that for a fraction of the price of Dreamweaver. (a bit comparable to Homesite, that used to be bundled with Fusion).
Golive for looks and easy editing.
Flash for the fancy stuff.
Photoshop for graphics ofcourse.
Illustrator for advanced graphics and consept sketches,
Omnigraffle for hierarchic structure.
all browsers...
VPC, for testing on even more browsers...
If you are coming from the PC side you should try Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver feels more like a PC application to me than GoLive does but then again all of Micromedia's applications seem to have a PC interface.
VanNostran
It is not as good as the big boys, but it is free.
OmniWeb also comes with a nice little editor with WebDAV support built in. I don't use it currently because I'm still dependent on FTP, and BBEdit has that built in.
BBEdit's template, #include and automation capabilities are incredibly powerful. They take time to learn, and time to set up, but once you've got them going site maintenance is almost pleasant.