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Powerful freeware for web design

Discussion in 'Photoshop' started by glorybloodyhell, Sep 24, 2008.

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    Which software are the best and powerful enough for web designing?
    Let say that I want to make a website template for general business and personal.
    Thanks.
     
    glorybloodyhell, Sep 24, 2008 IP
  2. brouwer

    brouwer Peon

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    Adobe Photoshop definitely
     
    brouwer, Sep 24, 2008 IP
  3. scorpionagency

    scorpionagency Well-Known Member

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    #3
    as long as it's strictly for web design & not print (Logo, flier, embroidery, etc..) then I would point out:

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Fireworks
    Serif WebPlus
    Corel CorelDraw
    Corel PaintShop Pro

    all 5 of the above have a web ready slicing tool that will output your design in XHtml. "Serif WebPlus" will output your design in both XHtml & Css.

    For editing the code:

    Adobe dreamWeaver ---- Editor with code & design view
    kompozer ----- (Free opensource editor like dreamweaver with code & design view.)

    There are many other small softwares out their, I've just named the most popular. :)

    Good luck!
     
    scorpionagency, Sep 24, 2008 IP
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    yangyang Banned

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    Photoshop is definitely the choice.

    However for freeware, I doubt there's any that's powerful enough. =) If you are well coding oriented and have seen a great lot of websites, you might also be able to code a general busienss template from scratch that's not bad.
     
    yangyang, Sep 25, 2008 IP
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  6. scorpionagency

    scorpionagency Well-Known Member

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    Ok, I named mostly paid in my last post & missed the part where the thread starter only wanted free software's. So here's the top contenders from my personal list of FREE software's:

    Totally Free OpenSource Design Software's:

    (For Raster/Paint) GIMP Or GimpShop <<~~ This version is laid out like PhotoShop.
    (For Raster/Paint) Paint.Net
    (For Vector) InkScape
     (For FLASH) OSFlash
     (For 3D) Blender
    (For 3D Rendering) Ogre
    (For 3D Rendering) OpenSceneGraph
    (For 2D Animation) Synfig
    (For DeskTop Publishing) Scribus
    (For screenShots & Presentations) WINK
    (For Rendering) LuxRender
    (For Converting Batch Images) ImageMagick
    (For Diagrams) DIA
    (For Graph Plotting) Graph

    Totally FREE, but not opensource Design software's:

    (For Raster & image manipulating) Serif PhotoPlus 6
    (For DeskTop publishing) Serif PagPlus SE
    (For Vector & Paint ) Serif DrawPlus 4
    (For 3D) Serif 3DPlus 2
    (For WebSite design) Serif WebPlus SE

    Totally Free Opensource Code Editors:

    XEmacs (website)
    Kompozer - wysiwyg (website)
    NotePad++ (website)
    sciTE (website)
    Vim (website)
    BlueFish (website)
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    Hope those help, Enjoy!

    (P.s.: Don't forget to add to my Rep if you found the list helpful - Simply click the scales icon located above my join date & location in the top right of this post, Thanks) :)
     
    scorpionagency, Sep 26, 2008 IP
  7. navi

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    Thanks for the list. It is a good one.

    However Coda is not free.
     
    navi, Sep 26, 2008 IP
  8. scorpionagency

    scorpionagency Well-Known Member

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    I just checked it & you're right, they now only have the free limited version & the paid version :( so i removed it from the list :)
     
    scorpionagency, Sep 26, 2008 IP