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Web design softwares help design concepts take form. They are essentials that no web designer can do without. Here are some of the popular web design tools used by designers:

Adobe Photoshop – This very popular graphics editing tool is ideal for image creation and modification. A large number of image manipulation and enhancement features make Photoshop a popular commercial design tool.

Adobe Dreamweaver – This web development tool offers features that allow Photoshop integration and sharing of smart objects for updating and editing of images. Other features like smart code hinting, syntax highlighting and live view make project management effortless.

Adobe Fireworks – This graphics editor (vector and raster) makes web layout prototype creation easy and quick. Its notable ‘slices’ feature allow designers to slice and dice a design mockup into HTML/CSS. The design prototype is made available as a PDF with clickable links, buttons, images, etc enabling interactivity.

Firebug – This free open source in-browser web development tool allows on-the-fly CSS and HTML editing and modification. Specifically designed for the Firefox browser, the Firebug analyses and debugs HTML, CSS and JavaScript and its inspection tool (DOM) allows quick review of web page elements and how they relate to one another. 

Adobe Flash – This graphics and animation tool exploits vector technology to produce high-resolution designs and interactive web page elements.

Other web design tools worth mentioning are:

• Panic Coda
• Adobe Illustrator
• Aptana
• GIMP
• CSSEdit
• Notepad++
• PSPad
• Coffee
• Firefox extension Web Developer
• Visual Studio 2008 for XHTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Safari web page tools

 

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