Web design tools

I am often asked what tools I use/would recommend for church web masters. Well I guess most of us want tools that are not going to break the bank and yet are powerful enough  do whatever we want.

Komposer - FREE Web Editing Software. An excellent program for those who need to design and edit church websites. It brings a wealth of features but its not too complex that its tough to use. Great for those on a tight budget.

Picasa - FREE image software from Google. This is a good program to help with the basics of web image editing. You can resize images and optimise for the web.

Photoimpact - Top notch image creation and editing software for those on a budget. This is a very powerful piece of kit and offers a range of features only usually found in software much more expensive. I highly recommend this one. Update: Corel purchased this one and have chosen to discontinue it. This is typical for software, especially, it seems, the cheaper good stuff. One more excellent resource bites the dust.

Namo Web Editor - Good quality editor with lots of fancy features but ones that won't upset your html like some others do (I'm too polite to mention any names here). Update: This one has gone downhill in my opion and is not as good as once it was. However, you may still like it - it sports a new Office like menu system.

Topstyle - CSS editor. Very powerful and good quality lets you see what you are doing without having to keep refreshing the web site.

Ultra Edit - Excellent and powerful text editor for all those php and programming jobs you have to do.

Color Wheel Pro - a program that allows you to see color theory in action: you can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples. I haven't used it on this site yet but will for the redesign.