Web design tools??

[Dan]

I know we have a few resident web designers here...

I was wondering what is considered to be the best tool for the development of big company websites these days.

Ta Dan

[judas]

Altogether now... Dreamweaver MX

[docevi1]

that is considered the best by many people, but I, and most programmers, prefer something like text/notepad and a browser.

[Liszt]

Depends what you mean by big companies.

The company I work for tends to now use .Net for clever stuff with the html bit done in the favourite text editor of the coder. A lot of the website management is controlled by databases and style sheets so changes to actual site code is minimal.

If you look at a sales based web site these really are Content management solutions, with normally a bought in CM backend solution.

The answer question I believe you are really asking is:
Dreamweaver MX and/ or Visual Interdev and/ or Visual Studio.NET