Out of curiosity, I was wondering what tools you use to design, and what ones you think are the best to use.

Personally, I use Notepad ++ for all of my coding.. because it keeps it nice and clean, and I use Photoshop for my graphics, just because it's the best image program out there.

Tools such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage seem useless to me, but I'm sure some of you use them.

So, what ones do you use, and why?

I primarily use my brain and my left and right hands. Notepad++ gives me some beautiful coloring, though. I use Dreamweaver, however, I do NOT use the WSIWYG editor. It writes horrible, ugly code. Dreamweaver just has auto-complete features, as well as built-in FTP and site management, which is awesome.

Edit: Oh, I use Fireworks for my images. It works great for these little web images you see all over the site.

True that. I really don't like things like it, though. Just personal preference.

I use both Notepad++ and Dreamweaver. However I don`t use WYSWYG part of dreamweaver, i just use it because of the intellisense feature(auto-complete).
For designing a layout, i use photoshop cs2. The best tool so far!
And for uploading, i have installed FilleZilla..

Photoshop CS2 is the best for designing, hands down.

I use SmartFTP as my FTP client, by the way.

FileZilla for the win! Dreamweaver has built-in FTP, just in case you didn't know... but I like having mine separate for some things.

Tools i use are

Photoshop CS at home
Photoshop CS3 at work
FileZilla
Notepad++
Dreamweaver (as others i use it for the auto complete, but having a memory like a sieve i also use it to remind me of code :P)

I also have the full AdobeCS3 (Macromedia) suite at work , but dont know the other programs.

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You should play around with Fireworks. It is great for web graphics, I think. Sometimes being bigger doesn't mean better...

I tried to play around with it earlier today.. and I really didn't like it. The tools weren't working for some reason, so I just gave up. I couldn't even get the eyedropper to work.

On my Mac I use: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Color Schemer Studio, and Transmit.

Brant, do you have any SEO tools you use?

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I use Dreamweaver 4 and TextPad. Dreamweaver for it's WYSIWYG feature and common UI and integration with Fireworks and Flash. I don't like some of the proprietary technology which FrontPage uses and the zillion little files it leaves on your server. I also like Dreamweaver's "split screen" view of the code and the page for quick edits. Dreamweaver doesn't change my code like FrontPage does. I even used it to modify dozens of the vBulletin templates you are using.

TextPad is great for little snippets of HTML code and has some features that a bulky HTML editor does not. My favorites: join lines, a zillion documents open at the same time in a single window, line numbers, a fast search and replace, and compare files. I also use this tool to edit scripts.
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Hello, and welcome newage123.

I, personally, don't like any WYSIWYG editors, because it seems to not code things as nicely as I would by hand, if you know what I mean. They are decent if you're doing just a quick job and plan to fix the code later on, if you know what I mean. Dreamweaver is a good tool, though. Some of it its autofill options seem to be very helpful at times, and I use it if I have it on the computer that I am on. If I don't, I will usually download Notepad++. If I feel like I am in a lazy mood, I will skip the download process and just use good ol' Notepad.

Notepad not ++, Paint.NET for graphics, and SmartFTP for file transfer.