Web Design Software Reviews

Why Web Design Software?

When talking about creating web page, building website, web design, we will think of the tools and software that we can use. There are many and many software applications available for building and designing a website, including Web Design Software, HTML Editors, Text Editors and Online Web Builders. Web Design Software is the most popular one; some people may call it WYSIWYG Website Builder or WYSIWYG HTML Editor or WYSIWYG Web Design Software. What make it so popular? The answer is Ease and Speed. Let see in more detail:

What is WYSIWYG Web Builder / Web Design Software?

WYSIWYG is acronym of What You See Is What You Get. It simply means that the software provides an editing interface which resembles how the page will be displayed in a web browser. And it does not require any HTML knowledge or experience for creating a web page or site. This makes the program simple and easy to use, especially for average computer users. And the program makes web design process faster and easier than using text editor or HTML editor.

There are many WYSIWYG web design software program available on the market today. You can choose based on your needs and preference. From one to another package there are differences regarding to features, price and interface. Let me provide you some highlights: Adobe Dreamweaver is the most powerful web design software which provides endless features ranging from standard to advanced functions, but it is not a cheap one. The program costs you several hundred dollars for a license while many other web design software packages cost less than a hundred dollars.

What More?

All of the WYSIWYG web design provides easy to use drag and drop feature which allows user to add image, text, link and other web elements by using mouse clicks. The good program supports many web languages including HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET and AJAX. You can also find many useful tools within the program such as build-in FTP, templates, photo editors, HTML cleaner, HTML validate, spell check and more. This type of program offers complete web design solution for all types of web designer and web developer whether you are a novice or a seasoned designer, a hobbyist or professional designer.

To help you in choosing the program, I have created a rating and voting system to find out what are most popular and most favorite for other users (you can see it and get some ideas). And as an experience user, I encourage you to participate the both rating and voting. It is free.

Web Design Software Ratings

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using WYSIWYG web design software before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience, for the website design program which you never use please do not rate it.

Software Name	User Rating
Adobe Dreamweaver	(43 votes)  Loading ...
Microsoft Expression Web	(23 votes)  Loading ...
CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer	(30 votes)  Loading ...
Serif WebPlus	(20 votes)  Loading ...
WebEasy Professional	(11 votes)  Loading ...
NetObjects Fusion	(9 votes)  Loading ...
Namo WebEditor	(5 votes)  Loading ...
Evrsoft First Page	(3 votes)  Loading ...
HTML-Kit Tools	(4 votes)  Loading ...
WYSIWYG Web Builder	(12 votes)  Loading ...

Voting for Your Favorite WYSIWYG Web Builder / Web Design Software

These are the top web design software programs available on the market today.  And as an experienced user, what is your favorite WYSIWYG web design software? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing web design software by finding out which is the most popular and the best one. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

1. You can only vote for one time.
2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You also can see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
3. The voting result will continue showing and change based on number voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

WYSIWYG Website Design Software Reviews

You can read reviews on web design software as well as sharing your experiences with each program you have ever used in following:

Adobe Dreamweaver

(Windows, Mac)
Adobe Dreamweaver is the most powerful web design software program on the market today. It is a product of Adobe Systems Inc. You may hear many people say that it is also a popular WYSIWYG website creator and editor or it is a full feature web page design software package. Yes, it is true. It is the top choice for professional web designers and web developers. It provides endless features ranging from standard to advanced functions.

Microsoft Expression Web

(Windows)
Microsoft Expression Web is a WYSIWYG website creator and editor by Microsoft Corporation. It is one of most popular web design software solution on the market today. It provides all the tools you need including HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, visual diagnostics and CSS design capability to produce high-quality and standards-based websites. The package includes Expression Web + SuperPreview, Expression Design and Expression Encoder + IIS Smooth Streaming. Expression Design is a professional design tool for creating graphics content that can be used within Expression Web.

CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer

(Windows)
CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer is one of popular WYSIWYG website creator and editor on the market today. It is a product of CoffeeCup Software, Inc. The program is designed to help you to make web pages with ease and speed, and you can make a web page even you have no experience or HTML knowledge. The program provides drag and drop interface which you can simply drag and drop images or text on the page. It makes designing process quick and simple, you can adjust image or text until you got what you like. The software comes with 10 web page themes to start you off.

Serif WebPlus

(Windows)
Serif WebPlus is one of popular web design software packages on the market today. It is a WYSIWYG website creator and editor developed by Serif Ltd. The program is designed for all types of users whether you are a novice or a seasoned designer, a hobbyist or commercial designer. You can design and to create professional websites with no complicated code, programming or design experience required. With drag and drop feature, you can create a website with no need to learn HTML. You can add buttons, fonts, colors, table and other web element by using drag and drop with mouse. The keyboard shortcuts and the on-screen tools are customizable.

WebEasy Professional

(Windows)
WebEasy Professional is a web design software solution from Avanquest Software. It provides complete solution for web creation. There are two editions of WebEasy Professional, Standard and Platinum Edition. The Platinum edition has higher price and more advanced features such as Advanced E-Commerce Solutions for product, inventory and customer management. The program is included 1 year hosting plan or you can use your own if you prefer.

NetObjects Fusion

(Windows)
NetObjects Fusion is a professional WYSIWYG web design software program developed by NetObjects Inc. It is a paid version which has more advanced features than free edition, NetObjects Fusion Essentials. With new AJAX Integration, the program utilizes the powerful Ajax framework to combine XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML into a seamless drag-and-drop interface. The program allows you to design your website with drag and drop layouts, site management tools, e-commerce tool, rollover images, custom HTML and scripts, upload files with built-in FTP.

Namo WebEditor

(Windows)
Namo WebEditor is a WYSIWYG editor, web design software solution from SJ NAMO, Inc. This Web authoring application allows you to create, edit, publish and manage your websites. With its easy to use and Microsoft Office interface alike, make you familiar with the program. You can create site quickly using built-in templates and themes to suite your needs. There are various templates including personal, company, education, community, restaurant, hotel, and presentation site. It provides you all standard web design features.

Evrsoft First Page

(Windows)
First Page is a web design software program developed by Evrsoft. The program is designed for professional web development. This WYSIWYG editor provides various useful web design features and support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, JavaScript, CSS, SSI and Perl. But the program has not been updated since 2006.

HTML-Kit Tools

(Windows)
HTML-Kit Tools is a web design software program for web designer and developer. It is the new version of HTML-Kit (HTML-Kit is a free HTML editor which you can download and use for free). There are many new major features in HTML-Kit Tools such as intuitive user interface; projects with virtual and remote FTP folders; ability to take HTML-Kit Tools, settings, templates and plug-ins in portable USB devices; new HTML Tidy interface that can highlight suggested code improvements; document structure and functions view for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP and more.

WYSIWYG Web Builder

(Windows)
WYSIWYG Web Builder is a web design software program developed by Pablo Software Solutions. This Website Builder is designed to make it easy in creating a website. There is no HTML knowledge or experience required, you can make a web page or website using drag and drop user interface. You may found interface similar, if you have ever experienced using word processing program like Microsoft Word.

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