What is currently the best software for web design and graphic design and why?
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Photoshop is the grand daddy of image editing, with Illustrator being the top graphical art design tool. However, there are many images editors out there for free, as well as HTML editors. It's all in how much do you want control over your web page code.
The Adobe product line is expensive, but community support is huge. Seek out sites like SixRevisions.com for articles and reviews of great web design tools.
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When working with the web, I much prefer to look at the hard code than a bloated interface filled with many buttons and options. Seeing how things work through the actual language than through a WYSIWYG is a great learning experience and gives you a better understanding of how a page is constructed. When you adopt less presentational web languages (i.e., not HTML), text editing is inescapable. Notepad++ is a great text editor that supports regular expressions search, syntax highlighting for many languages, multiple document tabs, split views, macros, and more. Because of features like these, web programming (and text editing in general) is a lot more comfortable. Best of all: it's free!
Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
These two programs are industry standards and complement each other nicely. Photoshop specializes in raster authoring (i.e., photographs, bitmaps) and Illustrator specializes in vector authoring (i.e., clipart, print). The GUIs are similar to each other, so learning a few things in one aids in getting familiar with the other. The only downsides are their price tags.
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Webdesign:
Visual Studio 2008
Notepad
Flash
i mainy write all of my html and css from scratch, i find it makes more sense that way and i have ultimate control.
Graphics:
Photoshop
Illustrator
Fireworks
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For Graphic Designing :Adobe products like photoshop, image ready,after effects..
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If you do not know HTML you will have to learn it or use the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) - Design View in Dreamweaver but I don't recomed it, because you will have to make the graphics in Photoshop or other graphic editing software the you have to insert them in you website and you cant do this to well in the Desgin View, you will have to use table layouts wich are not so used anymore.
If you have Photoshop and know how to use it to make website layouts then slice them there are o few plugins to help you make the conversion to HTML or Wordpress:
- Divine - easy to use and free plugin to make a Wordpress theme from a Psd file.
- Site Grinder - not free but very powerfull Psd to Html plugin.
There are a few coding tutorials as well:
Here is a list for some of the best IDEs for coding:
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It is great for handling java AND javascripting, as well as html, template development and more. Support is huge (as is with most open source software) and you can expand capabilities easily enough with plugins for perl, php and more. There is a bit of a learning curve, but there are awesome tutorials both online and built into the IDE for you to learn with.
For graphic design, you can stick with the Adobe suites (still the leader), but you may also want to look into up and coming open source software like Gimp (www.gimp.org) which is what I tell people who cannot afford Adobe to use. Interface is very much like Photoshop - and it has some more (and better imo) filters. Also can plug in a plethora of other plugins, or even create your own!
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The industry standard is Adobe. There can be no arguments about that. Adobe provides us with very powerful tools. However, it does have a huge learning curve because of its power.
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