advice: best tool for html desiners for asp.net apps

[gwu]

Our programmers use VS.NET 2003 to build and compile asp apps. What is a good tool for our designers to use. VS seems overkill for someone not needing to compile or write c#. All they need to do is put in css tags , images, etc. into the aspx/ascx pages.

In addition our programmers can compile and run trhe asp apps on there local machine because IIS is installed. What about the designers? Should IIS be on their machiines? They wont be able to compile the cs files into the dlls.

Can you give some good options?

Thanks

 

[ca8msm]

You can just give the designers the aspx page and they can use whatever design package they wish (DreamWeaver for example). They will not need to have IIS installed unless they actually want to compile the project and execute the page.

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[jhyde81]

I prefer Dreamweaver MX 2004 or the older MX as an alternative to VS. It works well with asp.net pages and allowing you to easily manipulate tables, images, css, etc., without all the bloat. Even if you have only standard/dynamic html content in the page, if you use the .aspx extension, the web server will compile the page anyway, before sending it out to improve performance.