Macromedia Dreamweaver

I use this exclusively to make my websites. I've been using this for a long time. Like all old webmasters I started manually coding and using the built in editor of Netscape before a product called Internet Explorer even existed. From there I used a series of mom & pop programs making manual coding easier and duplicatable (I know it's not a word but just patronize me a little here). Then the software god, MS, came along with FrontPage. FrontPage (FP) was doomed from the start since its concept was based on the entire web using MS operating system computers. They eventually had to bite the bullet and make a UNIX solution. This "fix" was termed "Front Page Extensions." More or less you doubled the space it would have normally taken on the web server. It was very inefficient and bloated. However, I like many more, followed the FP movement in hopes that it would someday be fixed like its cousin, MS Word. The "gotcha" happened with one particular version of FP. For beginners and casual w... Read more

Rating 4.6 ::you can make some really cool websites with this and it has alot of options! I have not yet discovered all of them! The key things I found interesting were: CSS (cascadoing style sheet sets)/DHTML/Java/Frames/ASP/Coldfusion/ASP.net apps/JSP/PHP and more! you can do all this within dreamweaver! I find that to be good one stop website app.The only gripe is that it can be RAM/CPU cycle hungry. I recommend running win2000/XP (or on linux with most of the vutual machine/win-Lin environments aval.) with more than 128MB RAM/ 750+MHZ PIII/AMD duron/atlon Processor and 16MB Video memory for graphic intensive websites.

Can't get much better if you want a WYSIWYG web editor. I use it for most of my webpages because it doesn't put in worthless codes and is so easy to use.