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Hello,
I'm new here and I have been thinking of getting
Dreamweaver for some time now. I have been using MS FrontPage and a
product that works off of it called FrontLook. I was told that MS
FrontPage put in a lot of extra code that wasn't needed and was
making the pages load slower. Also I had problems with what I made
up and how it would load up it would never be the same as I
designed. So I thought that Dreamweaver would be the way I should
go. Do I need to get all the extras like in the "Creative Suite 3"?
I do want my site to stand out and grab the attention of people
who come and visit but not a lot of stuff that would make it
childish. Oh I have also use “HotDog” by “Sausage
“Works” and was not happy as they do not have a good
support system there. I was also thinking of getting Photo Shop for
my use with the camera. Also hoping that Photo Shop has a good
graphic design program built into it!?! What should I get? Thanks
in advance, I know that there were a lot of questions here and I do
appreciate it. Tom

Answer 1

thomas34461usa wrote:
>
Hello David,
> Thank you for writting. I have been thinking for what I
need to do I should
> get the
"Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium" software. It has the
> PhotoShop and Dreamweaver in the selection. Plus other
that at this date I'm
> not familar with such as: Illustrator® CS3,
Contribute® CS3, Bridge CS3,
> Version Cue® CS3, and Device Central CS3.. Like you
I too got sick and tired of
> MS Frontpage and just couldn't see myself forking over
more money to a product
> I was no longer sold on. I know that all of this will be
exspensive, but well
> worth it in the long run. What do any of you know of
using the Creative Suite 3
> Web Premium and how it ties into Interakt Kollection
extensions? Or should I
> just not get the Interakt Kollection extension if the
CS3WP is enough? Thanks
> again.
>
Sorry; I'm not really familiar with Interakt. I guess you
could just
purchase CS3 and see if it does everything you need, then
purchase
Interakt or other software if you need something CS3 doesn't
offer.
I think Illustrator would be a great program, though I've
used it very
little, and that was years ago. I believe Illustrator is used
more for
simple illustrations, line drawings, etc., rather than for
touching up
photos. You can also use it to work with SVG images, which is
something
that interests me.
I haven't used any of the other programs you mentioned.
Contribute is a
program designed to let amateurs easily publish information
online, I
believe.
I'd also like to get Flash. I'm not a big fan, but they say
it can
actually be pretty cool if used properly. Also, I would
expect Adobe to
make some big improvements with it.
Another program that might interest me is Fireworks. It was
Macromedia's
answer to Photoshop; not as extravagant but more adapted to
creating
images for websites. I think I read where Adobe kept
Fireworks and
upgraded it along with the other programs. If so, it might
have some
nice features.
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