What site-building software is vital to you?

[WallaceCleaver]

What software is invaluable to you when building a site? For my I would have to say it's:

Notepad
Illustrator
Paint Shop Pro

 

[BeauCreative]

Photoshop & Dreamweaver hands down... and sometimes throwing in FlashFXP

I never really got efficient with Illustrator, so I usually have to outsource that type of work.

 

[Dave]

Photoshop definitely. I don't need dreamweaver, but it makes it a lot easier to code/program.

 

[$5 Submissions]

I focus mostly on text content and traffic generation so my most important tools are:

Firefox browser
Open Office Writer
Text editor

 

[WallaceCleaver]

After I learned what I was doing with HTML I couldn't stand to work with the WYSIWYG programs like Dreamweaver. I would spend too much time trying to clean-up the html. So much so, in fact, that I found that it was just simpler to build in Notepad.

 

[Nathan]

Homesite, TopStyle and Photoshop

 

[Stanley]

Notepad++
Photoshop CS2
Firefox and all 2,000,000 of the extensions that I have installed.

 

[revlimiter]

Dreamweaver 8, Photoshop CS2, Notepad, SmartFTP, Firefox +Web Developer Extension, and (sadly) Internet Explorer (80% of the population still uses this junky browser)

 

[V12Kid]

DW, PS and FLASHFXP

 

[MisterX]

Photoshop
Crimson Editor

 

[Charlie]

notepad, a ftp client and paintshoppro

 

[peach]

Photoshop
firefox+web developer plugin

 

[DruSam]

notepad, photoshop, frontpage, smartFTP, firefox + extensions, and Winamp for a little trance music motivation

 

[Julez]

Dreamweaver + Fireworks + xsite pro for quick sites

 

[pig2cat]

photoshop
notepad
and dreamweaver if i want to change fonts, lol

 

[Zygoot-]

Notepad
Dreamweaver
Internet Explorer/Firefox
Paint Shop Pro 7 (it's old but it starts up really fast, it's great to do some quick editing) and Photoshop
FlashFXP

 

[WallaceCleaver]

Paint Shop Pro 7 (it's old but it starts up really fast, it's great to do some quick editing)

I'm still using 6. I tried 8, I think, but it just wasn't as user-friendly.

 

[J-Tag]

Photoshop. Everything else is expendable.

 

[BeauCreative]

After I learned what I was doing with HTML I couldn't stand to work with the WYSIWYG programs like Dreamweaver. I would spend too much time trying to clean-up the html. So much so, in fact, that I found that it was just simpler to build in Notepad.

I use dreamweaver for the site management / upload features. It makes it very easy to download, open, edit, save, and upload remote files. It is also nice to have to have the automatic code suggestions. I haven't yet found another software package with these same features... but I am sure there are some out there.

I never even use the "design view" or any of their code management / insertion features. I agree with you about having to always clean up the html.