What web design tools to use ? Recommendations ?

I've done some programming in the past, but never really tried designing and making a web site.

Now I'm thinking of making one (or two).

So I was wondering, can anyone recommend any web page design/creation tools and/or resources (books, web sites ..etc) ??

I use
- Photoshop for the overall design
- Illustrator for graphics (sometimes)
- Fireworks for slicing
- Dreamweaver for programming / uploading

Microsoft ® Notepad

Seriously though, I have to use Dreamweaver these days since my oldschool HTML is out-dated and only renders properly in Internet Explorer

Mike's pretty much summed it up, Rafal...

Yeah I do web design fulltime. If you need a hand with anything Raf, let me know

Don't forget about Adobe Flash and After Effects!

Two GREAT programs.

Perfect, thanks guys.

I use on windows:
-NotePad++, this for quick edits, or siuations where I dont want to load up dreamweaver or some other large suite. It is quick, light weight loads fast. Supports tabs, and syntax highlighting.


-Dreamweaver.. This for pretty much every thing creating the website.. except the graphics.

-Photoshop, For the graphics, a general UI idea etc.

-Fireworks, when I am lazy... Ties in with dream weaver much easier.. But sometimes produces some messy code.

-FlashFXP for FTP, uploading etc.

For flash graphics, I cant stand Adobe Flash(or what ever they call it now adays). It offers to much for what I need, and over complicates things. So I just use Swish. Great for simple flash animations things.


On my mac I pretty much use the same things, except Smultron instead of notpad++, and Transmission instead of flashFXP.

Also, depending on the site I use CuteNews for a content mangement system. It is not as advanced and feature rich as other things like Joomla.. But I like it because of it's simplicity.