website development software

[Pharaoh]

I am looking for information/suggestions as I am getting ready to buy software for developing and managing a website. Thank you.

[moser]

I would recommend Dreamweaver for the development of your site. The couple of times that I have used the program, I have found it to be fairly easy to get a quick website built.

[dparm]

Dreamweaver for sure. Relatively inexpensive, very powerful, and has a huge user base behind it.

[picch]

If you're going to be coding in PHP, Zend Studio is by far the best program I've ever used for PHP development. As much as I love Dreamweaver, it doesn't compare to Zend Studio.

You can also stick to eclipse too, it's open source, and free. It's designed for Java programming, however has numerous plugins for web based programing languages and SQL databases.

If you do purchase Dreamweaver hold off for a month or so because the newest version is going to be released I think in mid June (Dreamweaver CS3)

Or if you're really brave, you can use notepad for everything programming related like my friend Andrew does....:|

[dcv]

Actually, Dreamweaver CS3 is already out and part of Adobe CS3 (Design Premium and both Web Standard and Web Premium) - but as far as I can tell, no big changes from Dreamweaver 2008 besides UI changes (I'm not exactly a hardcore webdev or anything, but unlike Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Flash CS3, I have yet to even discover a single new useful feature of Dreamwaver CS3 in my normal workflow). Unless you have an Intel Mac, there's no shame in going with Dreamweaver 2008 over CS3.

[emurphy1]

If you're going to be coding in PHP, Zend Studio is by far the best program I've ever used for PHP development. As much as I love Dreamweaver, it doesn't compare to Zend Studio.

You can also stick to eclipse too, it's open source, and free. It's designed for Java programming, however has numerous plugins for web based programing languages and SQL databases.|

OSCR's Web&Dev Team has standardized on Zend Studio (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_studio?hpb=4) for our PHP Development. It is a good tool, with handy features like Subversion and database access integrated. My favorite feature of Zend Studio is the debugger, it's great for setting a breakpoint and then stepping through your code to see what's going on. We even have it configured so we can debug code remotely (code that is on a server not the local workstation). Keep in mind, Zend Studio is not free. We pay $99/year for a student license and $299/year for a professional license.

That plug for ZDE aside, Zend is moving away from that product. They are putting all their IDE development efforts into the Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tool) Project (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/). Right now the PDT project is v0.7 RC3. The initial release of v1.0 is scheduled for September 2007. I just installed the RC3 release today. So far so good, but I haven't used it alot yet. Like all Eclipse plug-ins the PDT Project is free.

I have never used it but I know of many professional PHP developers who really like the Komodo IDE (http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/). Komodo is not free.

I expect that we (the Web&Dev Team) will move to using the Eclipse PDT Project as our standard PHP development environment by the end of the year. Most student programmers are already familiar with Eclipse so using the PDT Project would lower the learning curve for the tool and allow new programmers to get down to the business of cranking out code sooner.

[Unregistered--JW]

Hi there,

Share 2 found problems.

1. I found Adobe has a package program, shopping cart, to go with dreamwaver CS3. Would you recommand that?

2. Our company just bought CS3, which increasing many detail functions. However, the CSS plate may need a book to configure. Do you have any recommend book for this purpose?

JW