Web design software

[ChocolateBunny]

I'm putting together a new website using frontpage and photoshop for images. What do you think of flash? should i use that or java to make it look better?

CB

[Chris]

I personally think that flash makes a website clunky and slow to download. Javascripts are ok as long as they aren't over used. A good language to use is PHP - its old and clunky, but it gets the job done and it is a lot harder for hackers to see the code because it gets processed on the server. Javascript gets downloaded and processed on the user's computer.

Macromedia's Dreamweaver is a better program than frontpage (or expressionweb as it is now known) simply because he doesn't insist on putting in so many extra unneccessary lines of code!

Hope that helps!

[RecT]

Well it also depends on what type of website you're trying to make. Flash is good if its for an online game or something.

What site are you after?

[Benji]

Java, Flash takes to long to download and it just gets irritating when you sit there watching it go from 1 to 100% etc... do something minimal and up to date.