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Best Web Design Software / Tools

Through experience we find that the best web design tools are all Macromedia products, and we highly recommend everyone interested in web site development to use these tools. Here's a small introduction to these cool Macromedia products.

Macromedia Dreamweaver is the best web site development software/tool available today. If you are a professional web designer looking for a rapid application tool to design web sites, this is your best bet. We've been using Macromedia for a long time and highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in learning web site development. This tool generates HTML code for you, (so you don't have to be an expert HTML programmer to develop a web site!). Cool stuff possible using Dreamweaver includes rollovers, css styles, server side includes, templates and much more. Download the Free Trial Version of Dreamweaver MX

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We highly recommend using Macromedia Fireworks to design web sites. We use this tool to design web site layouts, logos, graphics etc. Fireworks is also great for optimizing images and exporting them in the gif or jpeg format. Cool features in Fireworks include making animated gifs, swap images, rollovers and other cool stuff.

Here's how we use Fireworks:

We design our sites in Fireworks to get an idea of what the finished site will look like. We then send these layouts to our clients in the form of gif and jpeg images. Once the client approves a particular layout we use Dreamweaver to convert these layouts to HTML. Download the Free Trial Version of Fireworks MX

Tips on Macromedia Fireworks

Macromedia Flash is the best software to use for web site animation. It has gained a lot of popularity and there seems to be a huge demand for Flash web sites. The reason Flash is so popular is because you can do fantastic animations while still keeping the file size low and so that sites can load fast. If you are interested in developing web animations Flash is without a doubt the best. There is also a huge online community of Flash developers so if you have questions or need resources like articles, tutorials, sound loops, flash files - it is all readily available on the Internet. Download the Free Trial Version of Flash MX.