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Good Website Developer Software?

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I am looking for some good website developer software. I have been given the task of maintaining a pre-existing website, unfortunately, I have never made/developed a website before. The site was originally made using Yahoo Site Builder, but even lacking experience that software seems a bit too simplistic to me. For a homesite i guess it is fine, but it seems to lack that professional look that I would like.

I am looking for something that can accomodate the learning curve I will need and yet be powerful enough so that when it comes time to re-design the website, I am not limited to pre-determined templates. Is NetObjects Fusion 10 a good solution, or is there something better? Thanks
 
Dreamweaver easy to use when needed but very powerful, industry standard more or less.
 
Agreed, Dreamweaver is the way to go. Although, if you're really looking to learn and do a great job, fire up notepad (or notepad2) and take some tutorials. :D
 
Another Dreamweaver recommendation. The WSIWYG editor becomes practically useless when the complexity starts building (it's in dire need of updating), but the code editor is fantastic, the site manager function is great (although inexplicably not working for me anymore), and it has a fantastic cross-browser CSS checker that will give you advice on how to hack up your style sheets so your documents "work" in Internet Explorer.

Well worth the price tag, but make sure you grab a few books too. Dreamweaver is only a tool.
 
Thanks for the advice guys. I will go with Dreamweaver. Does it have the software needed to manipulate/create images or will I need external software for that? On that same topic, is there any additional software I will need to purchase with Dreamweaver CS3?
 
Dreamweaver has no image-editing capabilities. You can associate files to be opened by other applications, but that's about it. You can check out the lesser-grade versions of Photoshop, or go ahead and check out a program called GIMP, which is a free GPL Photoshop "clone".

You won't need to buy anything else with Dreamweaver unless you're dealing with Microsoft SQL databases, ColdFusion or stuff like that.
 
Personally, I like the simplicity of vim in Linux and npd++ in Windows. After spending the time to get comfortable with PS, I can't work with Gimp. If you don't have experience with either, Gimp isn't a bad place to start. And you can't complain about free :D
 
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