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Reviewing the Best Design Software available today!
With our vast experience in Web Design we can confidently recommend the use of the following Software Tools, Applications and/or Programs for top-quality results in web design and programming. The software tools we are going to elaborate on this page are Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash - They are so easy to use, beware, you could get hooked on to them :-) Don't forget to read on to our next page for more on Best Software for Web Design.
Fireworks CS 5.5
Fireworks is a rapid web design software tool specifically built for web designers. We highly recommend using Adobe's Fireworks CS5.5 for the creation of well designed and optimized web sites. We use this tool to design web site layouts, logos, banners, e-cards, print and graphic designing. Fireworks is great for optimizing images and exporting them to GIF or JPEG format for the web, as it lets you balance maximum image quality and minimum compression size with precise control. Features that stand out include:
- Exporting website prototypes to Dreamweaver CS5.5 & directly pasting Fireworks objects into it.
- Creating pop-up menus that can be saved as CSS and HTML.
- Exporting Fireworks (PNG) files directly to Flash Professional CS5.5 while maintaining vectors, bitmaps, animations, and multistates.
- Fireworks core features of: Creating animated GIFs, swap images, rollovers, horizontal and vertical drop-down menus or flyouts, auto shapes and many other cool stuff.
Read more about other interesting Fireworks features.
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- Included in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium and
- Read our Fireworks Tutorials for website design
Dreamweaver CS 5.5
We recognize Adobe Dreamweaver as the best web development software tool available today. If you are looking for an easy-to-use rapid web development software to design, program, manage, update and publish cutting edge professional web sites with ease and consistency, look no further Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 is all this and more!
Dreamweaver generates valid HTML/XHTML code for you, so you don't have to be an expert programmer to develop a web site. This tool also generates code for web programming like dynamic forms and to link up to a database using almost all popular technologies like PHP, ASP, XHTML and .NET. Dreamweaver inbuilt extensions and downloadable extensions (functions created by other developers) are also supported; great when needed in a hurry or you cannot afford to build the functionality from scratch.
Cool web design effects possible using Dreamweaver include creating button rollovers, table and table-less CSS design with style sheets, seamless use of server side includes, dreamweaver templates and much more.
Tip: To buy Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 it's best to buy it as part of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium or Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium
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- Read our Dreamweaver Tutorials for website design
Photoshop CS 5.5
Adobe's Photoshop CS5.5 is a top-quality professional photo editing tool that creates fantastic effects! This design software is ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and seasoned web designers. Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 software includes automated tools that slash the time needed for selecting and compositing and live filters that boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset of Photoshop. Additionally a streamlined interface and timesaving tools make your work flow faster. The advanced version of Photoshop CS5.5 is the Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 Extended software that additionally enables you to introduce 3D effects into your 2D composites, making it the ideal design software choice for film, video, and multimedia professionals. Photographers can efficiently manage thousands of images by using together with Photoshop CS5.5.
Tip: To buy Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 it's best to buy it as part of any Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (recommended: Web Premium or Design Premium)
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Flash Professional CS 5.5
Thousands of web developers worldwide would agree with us that Flash Professional is the single most popular design software for web site animation. Flash is very popular in web designing because you can do fantastic animations while still keeping the file size low and so that sites can load fast. There is also a huge online community of Flash developers so if you have questions or need resources like articles, tutorials, sound loops, flash files - it is all readily available on the Internet. The immensely advanced features of Flash Actionscript has given an absolutely new angle to web animation.
Note: Adobe Flash Professional was initially introduced as for advanced ActionScript programmers and there was a seperate simplified version called Adobe Flash for those who didn't do heavy programming - this version is not supported anymore. With the introduction of Flash Catalyst its much easier to work with Flash.
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All four software reviewed above are included in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium and
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