Web Development: Tools

Before selecting web development tools, consider the following questions:

• Is the web development tool well supported? Quality software is frequently updated to address bugs as well as changes in operating systems.
• Is proprietary code embedded that can cause potential problems with some browsers? Dreamweaver generates clean code, while software such as Microsoft Frontpage embeds Microsoft specific code.
• Are the tools flexible enough so that changes can easily be made at the code level? Dreamweaver provides an option to view the pages as code, split or design. In addition, CSS files can be edited directly. Although Nvu provides a utility for creating CSS files, they can't be easily edited.