speckytecky Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 My current experience of building web sites has been limited to online stuff like the Microsoft and Orange sitebuilding kit and a fairly old version of MS Front Page (2003?). I'm now looking at using the EduGeek Joomla package for the school - I can see that a lot of the work can be done online but some for testing if no other reason, will no doubt need to be done on a workstation and posted up to the site. Is there any good easy to use Free to Use software available or if not any rercommendation on a package to purchase please?
StewartKnight Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Dreamweaver, or the complete Studio package 1
bandgeekmafia78 Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Dreamweaver, or the complete Studio package what he said. 1
_Bat_ Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Dreamweaver, or the complete Studio package Incidently you get a 30 day free trial. Useful if you only need to do a couple of one off things using it. I used to find I only needed to use dreamweaver for a couple of hours once every so often, so just downloaded a trial version of it on whichever computer I happened to be using at the time. 1
Dodgex1 Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 WAMP or LAMP for setting up la server for ocal machine testing areas, XAMPP for setting a local server on a USB pen if you're using PHP/SQL etc. Visual Web Developer from Microsoft is free and quite good, http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/ Notepad++ etc I'll 4th Dreamweaver for WYSIWYG 1
Pashers Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Have a look at Dreamweaver | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com for open source alternatives for dreamweaver. 1
RichCowell Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I used FrontPage for years, until they stopped it and released Expression Web, now Expression Web 2... Great program really... I've dabbled with Dreamweaver, but never got into it... Also, you may be able to get Expression Web 2 (Actually the complete Expression Studio 2) for free via the Microsoft DreamSpark thing - that's how I've got it, saw a banner on one of these pages a while ago: https://www.dreamspark.com Quite a bit of other software for schools too... Well worth checking out... 1
speckytecky Posted June 15, 2009 Author Posted June 15, 2009 I used FrontPage for years, until they stopped it and released Expression Web, now Expression Web 2... Great program really... I've dabbled with Dreamweaver, but never got into it... Also, you may be able to get Expression Web 2 (Actually the complete Expression Studio 2) for free via the Microsoft DreamSpark thing - that's how I've got it, saw a banner on one of these pages a while ago: https://www.dreamspark.com Quite a bit of other software for schools too... Well worth checking out... That really is a Gem I hadn't seen before. TVM Rich.
gibbo_ap Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 due to lazyness i have not reinstalled dreamweaver on my station which i have used for web dev since my college days. so at present i am currently using notepad++ 1
rh91uk Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I use Dreamweaver 8 for most web dev stuff, but only use the code window But it is useful to have a WYSIWYG to see the page during coding. 1
mossj Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I've never really got into WYSISWG editing of templates, but use dreamweaver atm as a colorcoded notepad... In my uni days i used the (free) software Jpadpro & Jedit 1
CyberDrac Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I will also put my vote in for Dreamweaver if you want the complete control over your project, however for quick/dirty/goodlooking/actuallyquiteuseful sites I can heartily recommend "WebSiteX5 Evolution 8", it's wizard based, but for a quick solution it can't be beaten. 1
JonP Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I've found the Serif Web Plus very easy to teach. The kids love downloading the software for free, too. They don't seem to mind that it's not the newest edition. They tell me it's great value for money! 1
Guest leeneilson Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 EditPlus, though not sure if I should admit that
amvc Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 dreamweaver here too (MX at the mo, but very soon to be CS4 ) 1
AngryTechnician Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I used FrontPage for years, until they stopped it and released Expression Web, now Expression Web 2... Great program really... Although FrontPage is officially discontinued, SharePoint Designer is extremely similar as it inherited the FrontPage codebase, and unlike Expression, it's free. I also tend to use Visual Web Developer Express as has been previously mentioned. 1
ind1ekid Posted June 19, 2009 Posted June 19, 2009 Textpad for straight forward PHP stuff, and css, but Visual Studio 2008 for the big projects, or anything .NET related 1
JJonas Posted June 19, 2009 Posted June 19, 2009 Have Macromedia Studio 8 (Dreamweaver) here and Serif WebPlus X2 but the students mostly use Dreamweaver. 1
FABEnterprises Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 We use Visual Studio 2008 but as mentioned earlier is Visual Web Developer from Microsoft a slimmed down version of VS but still very powerful. There are also a whole heap of training videos and resources accessible from www.asp.net. 1
tsimons Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 I currently use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe Flash CS4 1
G-Jackson Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 At School I still use FrontPage 2000 at home 2003 We Installed Expression and I really should try and use it more but I found things were taking me ten times longer than I can do them in FP - I guess it's a preference thing really. When I worked for an large Financial Company down south back in 2000 I was in charge of the Corporate Intranet and was using FP2000, there were two guys doing the UK Corporate Web Site using Dreamwever - They were having real trouble producing some Forms and spent days trying to get them right - In the end I did them in FP in about 30 minutes so from then on they did all there Forms in FP. Thanks for the Info on Sharepoint Designer - I might take a look at that.
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now