Quite a lot depends on what you mean by "
defign".
Even more depends of exactly what you want, or need, to do. Plus your knowledge level, and willingness to learn.
Do you want to know how to create web pages. Learn the bottom line, and use Notepad or any other text editor. The botton line here is that (unless you are going use ASP, or other advanced stuff) it is ALL HTML.
Dreamweaver puts an excellent face on - it is very good for those you want to pretend they know what is happening with web pages. However, I have looked at it actual crap that has to be parsed - sorry, while not as ridiculously bad a DrontPage...it is still bad.
FrontPage is much much worse. Terrible. Again, if you never look at what it is actually doing (and don't care) then, sure go ahead, but what it does behind the scenes Mircrosoft should be ashamed of. It is bloated code at the height of craziness.
Photoshop and ImageReady are great for creating images. Unless you are going to create web pages consisting of ONE sliced up graphic after another, they are not sufficient.
Do you mean a editor, for the TEXTUAL aspect of writing web page content. Then that is a different question.
GoLive? Whew, what can I say? MORE than you will ever likely to need, huge learning curve, and yes, it certainly can do "design".
However, design is a concept, and comes from the space between your ears. You can have, and play with all the software in the world, but if that space churns out poor design...the software is not going to help.
Photoshop - for design? Nah.
Gerry
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