What tools do you use?

[Curren~Sea]

I manage a few small websites. So far the tools I’ve used are a text editor (Smultron) and a CMS system (Joomla!). I’m getting busier, however, and it’s quite possible that this hobby will turn out to be more than a side gig for me.

I used Dreamweaver several years ago and didn’t really like it because it just didn’t seem very intuitive. How is CS3 these days? I can get the Adobe Academic package for a pretty good deal (my wife is a professor) so I’m considering stepping up to the plate.

 

[Island Dog]

Well I do some sites on the side, and I do pretty much everything with RapidWeaver.

 

[tominated]

photoshop, textmate and sometimes rapidweaver

 

[angelwatt]

I use BBEdit for code and Gimp/Photoshop for graphics. My web server is local so don't need to FTP or anything.

I believe the stickies in this forum have some good info you'll want to read through for a lot more details.

 

[motherduce]

Coda
CSSEdit
Rapidweaver (for the quickies for family/friends)

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Textwrangler
Photoshop
MAMP (great for local testing!)
Fetch (any FTP will do though)

 

[macsig]

DreamWeaver CS3 (Layout) +
Pixelmetor (Images) +
TextMate (code) but I'm gonna try NetBeans 6.0 and I guess I'm gonna switch


DW CS3 has been improved: it is faster (on MacIntel) and provides all the features you need. Now Flex framework as well.




But if you look for something less "professional" Rapidweaver can be fine: I see a RW license. If you are interested on, just send me a PM

 

[Curren~Sea]

Thanks for the links. I downloaded demos of all the above. Coda looks the coolest to me so far. I may break down and go for the CS3 though, since I know I'll have to do some Flash modifications to sites that I have recently taken over. Alternatively, I could get rid of the Flash stuff and use something else, I guess.

 

[derandrew09]

Desktop Software: Coda, Photoshop
Website host: A Small Orange
Website software: Wordpress
And I do it all with: A Mac
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[rogersmj]

On any given day at work:

TextMate for Ruby/Rails, PHP, HTML, minor CSS, etc

CSSEdit for major CSS editing (awesome to use with huge stylesheets--makes finding what style sets are being applied to a certain element a cinch)

Illustrator/Photoshop/FireWorks for graphics work, depending on what is needed

Transmit to get it all up there
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And indirectly...

Adium to communicate with my team and my boss, and to make fun of the people in Marketing

PandoraBoy to listen to new music and keep me sane (better than listening to Pandora in a browser because this allows keyboard shortcuts for play/pause/next/thumbs up/down and Growl notifications)

Vienna to keep me in touch with what's happening on the Intertubes

Parallels for testing the necessary evil of IE 6 and 7

 

[Melrose]

I use Photoshop, but since my move to the Mac the company is buying me Creative Suite 3 - I can't wait till all them goodies are installed!

I use Photoshop CS3 for layout and Dreamweaver CS3 (code, or source, mode) for cut up and CSS.

Them two tools can handle just about everything I do, and Dreamweaver's FTP site thingie means Don't have to use a stand-alone FTP client to upload files to the test server, which saves time.

 

[MacSociology]

BBEdit for coding.
Scrivener and mellel for writing.
Joomla and Drupal as CMS.
Fireworks for webgraphics.
Site5.com for shared hosting until the site is big enough to be on a dedicated server.
SnapzProX for screenshots and screenrecording.
Yummy as ftp-client.