From the article: How to Set Up Your Web Designer Office
There are lots of different tools available for Web designers to use in their freelancing business. I've only scratched the surface. What are your favorite tools and equipment? What software or hardware could you not live without as a freelance Web designer? What's the Best Tool
Dreamweaver is the answer....
- I'm not sure how anyone can live without DW, it has become the quintessential software program for web designers. Image manipulation through Photoshop within DW is a snap, hotspot tools are simple, inserting scripts, and checking browser compatibility is a snap by simply hittin' F-12, and you can set up all the browsers you want to check and assign hotkeys!
- —Guest Scott S.
Dreamweaver & Photoshop...
- Dreamweaver & Photoshop take care of most of my work. Of course having multiple browsers (one not mentioned above is Safari, I like to know what my Mac users might see & it's also key for testing mobile apps) installed for testing, I even have virtual machines setup with alternate versions of IE installed. This is key since most of my users are still on Windows XP but some with Windows 7.
- —Guest HD
Image manipulation at its simplist
- paint.net - an amazingly friendly program. LOVE IT!- www.getpaint.net Cheers - alex www.alexhigh.co.uk
- —Guest Alex High
Browsers
- I find it to be absolutely necessary to test all of my web pages in IE, Firefox, and Netscape, the 3 leading browsers being used today. I am always surprised at how differently a web page will render in IE than it does in Firefox, and sometimes must spend a great deal of times with the HTML getting them to render the same.
- —B.Williams
Have to have it, can't live without it!
- An Intel Mac w/ VMware Fusion to run Win XP for checking MS IE, TextMate editor, Transmit FTP, CSSEdit, and something to edit graphics. I prefer Photoshop, but could get by with Gimp.
- —Guest Dave M
