FREE Website Design Software

Image and Drawing Software

Photo Plus - Great Image editing program which has layers, effects and image
optimization features

Draw Plus - This is a really cool drawing program with lots of features.

Paint - An improved program similar to the Windows Paint Program..

PDF Creator

Open Office - If you’re looking for an Alternative to Office this software
program might be for you. One of the best features on offer is the save to
PDF file option when creating documents.

PDF Creator - FREE PDF Creator software. PDF creator works by printing
your document to the PDF Creator driver.
Works really well with lots of security features.

Website Building Related

NVU - FREE WYSIWYG Webpage Making Software.

Top Style Lite - FREE Cascading Style Sheet Maker

Office Alternatives

Open Office - If you’re looking for an Alternative to Office this software
program might be for you. One of the best features on offer is the save
to PDF file option when creating documents.

Audio

Audacity - A free, full-featured audio recording and editing program.

Flash Tutorials

Wink - Awesome program to create Flash based tutorials for website’s.

Powerbullet - This small, simple program is great for creating presentations
in the Flash™ format. You should have minimal start uptime in getting your
first presentation together if you’re familiar with using a basic word processor.

Most commonly-used operations are available with a button click or two,and
there are handy keyboard shortcuts for most
operations. For instance, using the up and down arrow keys - in conjunction with
the Control and Shift key -dynamically increases or decreases the font size, giving
you instant feedback.

Other Stuff

Clipyard - a excellent inexpensive tool for composting multiple SWFs into a single file.
Works well with Powerbullet.

Source - Free Website Design Software