Hi everyone!! I am a web developer and doing development for last 2 years. Now I am moving towards web designing so want some recommendations and suggestions about web designing tools and ideas to be a better web designer.

 

 

Thank You

 

Most of the web designers use Dreamweaver, notepad++ as their main Tools.

Most of the web designers use Dreamweaver, notepad++ as their main Tools.

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Most of the web designers use Dreamweaver, notepad++ as their main Tools.

 

Used Dreamweaver and notepad++ for development purposes and here I am asking tools for designing. Well thanks for the answer.

 

Used Dreamweaver and notepad++ for development purposes and here I am asking tools for designing. Well thanks for the answer.

 

You shouldn't be using either for development. There are far better tools out there for the job.

 

For design: the browser, a whiteboard and a pen and paper can't be beaten. Many use photoshop / Illustrator but the big places (Those who are most forwards thinking) will get designers pairing with the developers to design in the browser - component by component. No big design up front.

Edited March 29, 20179 yr by rbrtsmith

You can try canva. It is an online graphic design platform. Non-designers can easily create graphic designs and layouts with drag-and-drop features. Design with free stock photos, icons, and shapes. Create menus, banners, social media graphics, and more.

Thank you so much all for sharing your views.

Most of the web designers use Dreamweaver, notepad++ as their main Tools.

I'm not a web designer or developer, but as a hobbyist I use Adobe Creative Cloud.

 

I mostly use Dreamweaver and Fireworks, and I watch video tutorials, and scavenge advice from this forum when I can.

Most of the web designers use Dreamweaver, notepad++ as their main Tools.

 

Why are you repeating the same drivel as Ashleyben? Very few professions use these as web dev tools.

 

Very few people in the industry use either Dreamweaver or Fireworks these days.

 

I would recommend trying some other editors. Whether rightly or wrongly, people who use Dreamweaver are judged by their peers in the industry. In one place I used to work a few years ago, anybody who said they used Dreamweaver on their CV was instantly discarded as a potential employee. Same with people who used aol email addresses - their CVs were just rejected for that reason. May sound unfair but it's something you should probably take into account.

 

Hi Paul,

 

That's very interesting to hear, although I can understand that as far as Fireworks is concerned because its development stopped. I must admit I do tend to live in the past when it comes to quite a few things nowadays, as one can tell from my site. When I said hobbyist I mean working only on my own hobby site - I don't offer to work for others in this field.

 

What are the reasons that Dreamweaver use is not so respected nowadays? Is it because it does too much of the work, or it does it less efficiently or something? I'm certainly curious about that and thanks.

I'm a graphic designer at a company and i use fireworks daily! and photoshop, illustrator, and sublime text 3. admittedly many don't use fireworks mostly because a) it's no longer being developed (though that doesn't stop it being well suited to web graphics) many use photoshop without ever trying fireworks. If you're on mac then have a look at sketch. fireworks also produces 8-bit pngs with alpha transparency which photoshop can't do ) at least up to CS6)

 

I find photoshop painful at making mockups for web layouts and use indesign instead or if it's simple enough for me then i might even start designing straight in the browser (once i have a rough wireframe—literally—pencilled). styles and elements are usually mocked up in codepen because it's easier to show components, colours and typography to the developers staright there.

 

I make svgs in illustrator and then optimise in the excellent https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/. i also use the free RIOT http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/ (radical image optimisation tool) to squeeze a lot of extra kilobytes out of images.

 

dreamweaver is excellent tool to use when you have a base in coding but if you want to move into things professionally then you won't find anyone using it in a serious environment. I haven't used it for a few years now since moving to sublime 3 and i'm a designer who can code rather than a developer

 

Very few people in the industry use either Dreamweaver or Fireworks these days.

 

I would recommend trying some other editors. Whether rightly or wrongly, people who use Dreamweaver are judged by their peers in the industry. In one place I used to work a few years ago, anybody who said they used Dreamweaver on their CV was instantly discarded as a potential employee. Same with people who used aol email addresses - their CVs were just rejected for that reason. May sound unfair but it's something you should probably take into account.

 

I have seen weird reaction of our Project Manager when I was downloading 'Dreamweaver' for development, but now am using Sublime Text 3.

 

Well thanks for sharing it

i am a beginner and i am using Sublime Text 3 and photoshop

I think canva is not a tool for professional designers. It's simply a resource for not skilled people to have fun and try their hand in kinda design. Customers won't pay money for something done with this tool at least because he/she can do it for free.

I think canva is not a tool for professional designers. It's simply a resource for not skilled people to have fun and try their hand in kinda design. Customers won't pay money for something done with this tool at least because he/she can do it for free.

 

I think it depends on how skilled you are (it's like saying a photographer is only as good as his/her camera which is far from the truth), but I agree that it's not a professional tool nor intended for professionals.

 

The Adobe Creative Suite is very reasonably priced these days, and there's a free trial anyway I think.

 

I think it depends on how skilled you are (it's like saying a photographer is only as good as his/her camera which is far from the truth), but I agree that it's not a professional tool nor intended for professionals.

As somebody who enjoys photography that statement has quite a lot of truth to it. I've seen some great photos by professionals taken with mobile phones for example, but the lack of creativity you can have with a shot is severely limited.

 

You have little to no control over

• Shutter speed
• ISO sensitivity
• Aperture
• Focal range
• Focus target (I believe some new phones have made improvements here)

Not to mention being severely limited by how much light a tiny lens receives, this is especially noticeable in low light situations or those with contrast extremes. The auto settings that phones come with at best try to take a guess of the photo you are taking.

 

With regards to Adobe they have have the Creative Cloud service which charges you for usage so it's a good option for sporadic users.

Edited April 24, 20179 yr by rbrtsmith

I use Dreamweaver 8 and Corel PaintshopPro.

 

Do you code in Cobol too?

As somebody who enjoys photography that statement has quite a lot of truth to it. I've seen some great photos by professionals taken with mobile phones for example, but the lack of creativity you can have with a shot is severely limited.

 

You have little to no control over

 

• Shutter speed
• ISO sensitivity
• Aperture
• Focal range
• Focus target (I believe some new phones have made improvements here)

Not to mention being severely limited by how much light a tiny lens receives, this is especially noticeable in low light situations or those with contrast extremes. The auto settings that phones come with at best try to take a guess of the photo you are taking.

With regards to Adobe they have have the Creative Cloud service which charges you for usage so it's a good option for sporadic users.

 

It there not an issue with noise, colour depth and normal colour contrast (not extremes, I mean subtle changes for vibrancy, shadows etc) , even specifically tungsten lighting (no or poor colour correction ability) too? A good quality image can and does most the time mean the difference between selling a product/service or not.

It there not an issue with noise, colour depth and normal colour contrast (not extremes, I mean subtle changes for vibrancy, shadows etc) , even specifically tungsten lighting (no or poor colour correction ability) too? A good quality image can and does most the time mean the difference between selling a product/service or not.

 

There's a huge amount of issues, including those you listed I was focusing on some of the most apparent creativity limiting issues. You can take many totally different photos of exactly the same scene by playing around with the settings I mentioned, such as traffic at night with a long shutter timer where you get the effect of stretched lights - simply not possible on a phone.

 

e.g.

 

All that said I didn't take my SLR up Mont Blanc when I climbed last summer as I was trying to keep weight to a minimum so had to make do with my phone for photographs and they turned out alright...

 

Sorry, this thread is heading off course. Maybe we should have a separate photography thread

Edited April 24, 20179 yr by rbrtsmith

There's a huge amount of issues, including those you listed I was focusing on some of the most apparent creativity limiting issues. You can take many totally different photos of exactly the same scene by playing around with the settings I mentioned, such as traffic at night with a long shutter timer where you get the effect of stretched lights - simply not possible on a phone.

e.g.

All that said I didn't take my SLR up Mont Blanc when I climbed last summer as I was trying to keep weight to a minimum so had to make do with my phone for photographs and they turned out alright...

Sorry, this thread is heading off course. Maybe we should have a separate photography thread

Ahh, was I just assuming this was in the context of photographs for a private website or a gallery? There are obviously exceptions to why it would be ok to use lower quality images but I was being specific to professional business websites and those images being used as part of the design and not a gallery

For creating web pages you require to use HTML and CSS, because without HTML and CSS, you cannot design the web pages. However to create unique GUI designs, you also need to use a Graphic designing software. You can use Photoshop or coral draw software for creating different design elements.

However to create unique GUI designs, you also need to use a Graphic designing software.

No you don't. There are plenty of ways to develop a layout without using graphic designing software.

No you don't. There are plenty of ways to develop a layout without using graphic designing software.

 

 

The browser does a great job of this... like my other post, get your designers and developers to pair and don't have them working in silos!

2 hours ago, Digi Mark said:

Dreamweaver and Firefox developer

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

This was a joke I hope...