There are hundreds of different ways to be a web designer, and the hardware requirements mean that you can do it with just a simple laptop or even a netbook computer. But people do it with much more than that too.
Do you have specialized hardware that you use for your web design work? Multiple monitors? Color synchronization peripherals? Digital cameras? Share your web design setup with other About.com readers and read about what other designers use.
iMac and a MacBook Pro
RapidWeaver 4.4.2; and all the bundled Apple software that is standard in the iLife suite like iPhoto, etc. RapidWeaver includes a vast "Community" of over 30,000 members with over 100,000 post all h…
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Mac and PC
On the PC I use my PSP8. I still love this for graphic design. I also use animation shop and create web sets and graphics. I have permission to use artwork from 2 great artists and try to keep their …
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Tri-core AMD Windows Machine
OS: Vista 64 UltimateAdobe Mastersuite CS5Firefox, IE browserEasy Thumbnail creatorAdobe Reader 9Sonar Studio 7 ( music recording/editing )Sony photo editing software ( came with camera )Vegas Video …
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Linux PC
I use a combination of WYSIWYG and text editors to develop sites. I like to draft them in WYSIWYG, then fine tune them for validation with a text editor. Lately, I've been using the Kompozer WYSIWYG …
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15" MacBook Pro
Adobe CS5 - After Effects, Bridge, Contribute, Device Central, Dreamweaver, Encore, Extension Manager, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Media Encoder, Photoshop. Browsers: Safari, Firefox, an…
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iMac Core 2 Duo
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569) Safari: Version: 5.0 Gimp: Version: 2.6.8p1 - for graphic editing flashplayer: Version: 8.0 r22 iPhoto for sizing and organising photos Grab (for collecting s…
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27" iMac
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 - Site and page prototypingPhotoshop CS5 - Photo and image editing, format conversions.Aperture 3 - Image and photo library.InDesign CS5 - Page design and prototypingWord 2008 -…
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MacBook Pro
Dreamweaver CS5. I have always used Dreamweaver.Photoshop Elements 6.0. I'm more comfortable with this still than with the full Photoshop.Photoshop CS5Adobe Bridge CS4. For creating slide shows.Adobe…
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IBM Intel Pentium
CoffeeCup HTML editor, when I am using Windows XP, but mostly I write the HTML directly, in any editor (Block of notes). For Graphics: Pencil, traditional animation software developed by Pascal Naido…
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Ten year old Mac G4
Dreamweaver 8, Fireworks 8, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Indesign CS3, Acrobat Professional, Flash 8, Distiller CS3 Stylemaster, Cinema4D, Corel PainterX, Artrage3 Pro, Cheetah3D v5. I can't think…
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24" iMac
I really like Freeway Pro 5.5 - I know that will have people throw hands up in horror but it works well for me and the ability to use an interface that is similar to say InDesign seems to me the way…
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Mac Mini and Mac Powerbook
Adobe CS3 software: Industry Standard software.Illustrator for design and printPhotoshop for web and printInDesign for documents like magazine projectsFlash for web SWF moviesDreamweaver web design(a…
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13" MacBook Pro with Second Monitor
I code in Coda (lovely piece of software apart from lack of auto complete of variables defined earlier in scripts), FTP using CyberDuck when Coda isn't enough.Adobe Photoshop 4 for graphics, Google C…
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Dell Desktop
Notepad++, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, CE Software Quickeys (a necessity), CoffeeCup Web Site Color Schemer, Jasc Animation Shop, Soft Voile Clipdiary (another must have), Windows XP Professional, Nit…
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ASUS Eee-PC 1000HA
I am using Ubuntu Linux 10.4, web editor Bluefish 1.07, web editor Kompozer 0.8, text editor Gedit 2.30.3, photo editor GIMP 2.6.8, Google Chrome 6.0.4, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9, Simple Scan 1.03, vecto…
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Windows Computer with Open Source Software
I mostly use open source software, although some of my colleagues use the Adobe suite and/or Microsoft OfficeNetbeansGIMPSmartGITSmartSVNConsole2Filezilla FirefoxChromeGrindstone 2InkscapeWinRARXAMPP…
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Toshiba Satellite Running Linux
Currently, my computer has Linux 10.04 LTS but it will be updated next April of 2011. Kernel 2.6.32-24 generic with GNOME 2.30.2 as part of my Ubuntu package. Installed are all the available Linux dr…
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HP-Pavilion
Adobe Creative Suite 4 (including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Chrome, Safari, IE, Office 2010, (plus numerous other programs for organizing, notes, font management, email, etc.) ; Efficient Di…
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Homebuilt Computer
Window NT SP3 (only updated from NT4 about a year ago).HTML CSE Validator lite version 8 for updating HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP etc files (because version 9 changed some of the defaults from how I w…
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15-inch MacBook Pro
Mac OS X 10.6, BBEdit 9.5, Transmit 4, occasionally Dreamweaver CS3, Photoshop CS3, Safari 5, Chrome 6, Firefox 3.5, Parallels 5, Windows XP, IETester for testing IE versions, Firefox and Chrome on t…
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