Selecting Software

When selecting software you need to choose what you believe or hope will work best for what you need to do.

If,for example, you intended to do a lot of website design for customers and get paid well then you might need to buy the best, which is probably Dreamweaver. On the other hand if you just want to make the odd website for yourself then the cost of Dreamweaver would be an unnecessary expense.

There are a lot of powerful free programs about but certainly for the large ones you would still have to pay a premium in time spent learning how to use them.

For some applications there are a myriad of programs out there some free, others for which you have to pay. An example of this is the many plug-ins available for WordPress. You obviously have to be very choosy about which you use or you will end up in a mess.

Usually when you buy a piece of equipment such as a camera or a printer it has a CD that needs to be run to add drivers to run the equipment. But in many cases the CD also loads other programs onto your hard drive which may interfere or compete with programs that you already have on your computer.

In all the cases above you have to make a selection of what software you need. It's very easy to clutter your hard drive with programs that you seldom use It's easy to buy programs or download free programs on a whim but when you see that "must have" new program just make sure that it's exactly what you need.