Cost - effective website design/development software

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I am trying to figure out which web design and development software is the best for practical small business site design. Adobe Dreamweaver 8 appears to be a good one, but is a bit pricey. Still, if it is a good package I will purchase it.

Anyone have a better recommendation? :shrug:
 
You're better off just hiring a contractor in most cases. A good one will provide you the ability to modify the parts of your page which will need regular modification without paying recurring costs. Dreamweaver is popular, but disgustingly awful in my opinion. Their methodology for templates makes code practically unmodifiable.
 
The best web solution for small business is to install Wordpress and buy a $40 theme off of Themeforest. Anything else is a waste of resources these days. You can PM me if you need help.
 
Stoniphi said:
I am trying to figure out which web design and development software is the best for practical small business site design. Adobe Dreamweaver 8 appears to be a good one, but is a bit pricey. Still, if it is a good package I will purchase it.

Anyone have a better recommendation? :shrug:
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Do you have any competency in server-side/client-side code languages?
 
I am adult and degreed, was a crack programmer in university AI a very many years ago. Now...not so much, though I am good with hardware. :eek: So the answer to your question is "no".

I am competent with stuff like Bryce, DAZ, Carrara and Photoshop CS5. I need to fire up several commercial sites, don't mind buying a package if it can deliver, even if there is a learning curve. I am hoping for WYSIWYG, hope to avoid extensive coding in an unfamiliar language/code.
 
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I am competent with stuff like Bryce, DAZ, Carrara and Photoshop CS5. I need to fire up several commercial sites, don't mind buying a package if it can deliver, even if there is a learning curve. I am hoping for WYSIWYG, hope to avoid extensive coding in an unfamiliar language/code.
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If you are considering an interactive commercial format (shopping carts/SQL/PHP etc), I strongly advise you to seek professional assistance.

If it will be primarily informational pages and you wish to tackle it yourself, get a WYSIWYG editor/browser that works with numerous coding languages (html/css/xml/js) and file extensions (image/Flash).

Sorry, but I can’t help you very much in this regard because I used to hand-code everything. Still do lol. Despite the handy editor tools available in the vB message response box, I always manually compose the BBCode. Habit.

PS... I always did like Bryce :)
 
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Stoniphi said:
I am adult and degreed, was a crack programmer in university AI a very many years ago. Now...not so much, though I am good with hardware. :eek: So the answer to your question is "no".

I am competent with stuff like Bryce, DAZ, Carrara and Photoshop CS5. I need to fire up several commercial sites, don't mind buying a package if it can deliver, even if there is a learning curve. I am hoping for WYSIWYG, hope to avoid extensive coding in an unfamiliar language/code.
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I've been doing sites for 10 years and will always use Wordpress from now on. I've had a few years in Bryce and many in PS, as well as you I can use pretty much every program out there. Still, wordpress will always win imo.
 
I have visited their page and bookmarked it for further examination, thanks. :)
 
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