Which is the best web development tool, dreamweaver, front page or......?

Dreamweaver over Front Page, ANY day

Which is the best web development tool, dreamweaver, front page or......?
Dreamweaver is probably about the best, but it has a difficult learning process. Front page is good for most people and is much easier to learn.





I would suggest you first get Front Page and learn that. Later, if you feel you need more, then get Dreamweaver and begin learning that. The experience you get from Front Page will help a lot in learning Dreamweaver.
Reply:Dreamweaver and it has better ability to work with other products from Macromedia (Now Acrobat)
Reply:Notepad (well, actually, something that does Syntax highlighting would be better)





You just don't have the necessary control with a program like Frontpage. Frontpage makes some of the most ugly, convoluted HTML I've ever seen. Tags that never get ended or closing tags with no opening (i.e. the %26lt;/whatever%26gt; tag without a %26lt;whatever%26gt;. Heck, I saw one page done in FP where every single line of text had about 300 characters of CSS code... and it was the same for every single line. You could have saved 40KB by making a couple lines in a CSS file. So, for this reason I really dislike Frontpage. I have no experience with Dreamweaver, so I cannot comment on it's output.
Reply:DreamWeaver rocks (especially for big websites). FrontPage isn't shipped anymore, the successors from Microsoft are SharePoint Designer (basics, included in MS Office 2007) and Expression Web (professional web design), I haven't used them, but FrontPage isn't the best choice definitely.


Someone has mentioned Notepad. If you need something lightweight and simple then google for 'Notepad++'. It has syntax highlighting for the most common languages and other useful features