Designing website require software tools as well. The software itself we could found it out there, starting from the open source into software that worth of hundreds of dollars.

I’d like to try to discuss the basic software tools we could use to design website. Although the software I used might be difference with yours, but at least it got the same function. Lets start it one by one as below:

Graphic Design Software
If you’re asking senior web designer, they will suggest you to use popular graphic application for web designing. The reason is simple, the more popular the application, you’ll found bunch of tutorial along with designers community sharing about difficulties, errors, bugs, some skills and tips, etc. With it, problem solving became faster and easier with popular graphic application.
When you have no worried on handling your graphic design software, then gather your power focusing on creativity for the design. Some popular application are corel draw, adobe photoshop, etc.

Text Editor
Software in this category have function to process the HTML, CSS, PHP, or JavaScript that consists only of text. So really do not need complicated software that heavy loading and too much complicated. By default Notepad and wordpad actually could do the work, but use the application that is not made ??for web design editor of course there are drawbacks.

One of the popular web design editor is Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly known as Macromedia Dreamweaver). Web editors are also using the system WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). So web design that you see on the Adobe Dreamweaver’s what you’ll see in a browser. In addition to the features distinguishing color (syntax coloring) there are also various other facilities that help a web designer.

Web Servers
Web Application Server is needed if your website using programming languages ??other than HTML, as examples: PHP or ASP. The task of this application is to simulate our computer into a server local web site. So to test the look of the website / blog that we make do not need to use a real internet connection. The way is by accessing the default address your website / blog that is http://localhost/.

For blogs like WordPress CMS using PHP & MySQL language, there are so many web application servers. But the popular ones is XAMPP. Stability, appearance, and compatibility XAMPP is no doubt anymore. The obvious advantage to using a local web server is the cost of Internet connections that are not needed can be suppressed. And its easier to install it, rather then installing one by one.