A Web design program is a computer program used to create, edit, and update web pages and websites. The purpose of such a program is to make it easier for the designer to work with page and site elements through a graphical user interface that displays the desired results, typically in a WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...

 manner, while removing the need for the designer to have to work with the actual code that produces those results (which includes HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 or XHTML

XHTML

XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....

, CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...

, JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

, and others). Examples of a web design program are Adobe Dreamweaver and NetObjects Fusion

NetObjects Fusion

NetObjects Fusion is a web design tool, from 1996 - 2001 developed and distributed by NetObjects, Inc., marketed from 2001 until 2009 by Web.com , which acquired the application in 2001, and from July 2009 on distributed again by the re-established NetObjects, Inc.NetObjects Fusion has a graphical...

 which are commercial programs, and Amaya

Amaya (web browser)

Amaya is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at the INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium . Amaya is used as a testbed for web standards and replaced the Arena...

, which is an open source program.