Each is, in our experience, the best currently available product for it's intended purpose. Additionally, there are tons of shareware, freeware and trial versions of software that can be downloaded from a seemingly infinite number of sources. Both of these sites take great pride in providing safe, reliable downloads, so you needn't worry too much about the potential for getting a computer virus. Now if it would only do meta-tags for the search engines on the fly, it'd be just about perfect, and for that reason alone it still makes sense to hire a pro for commercial site development. The best JDK yet available, and one of the more expensive ones.
Interface is incredibly difficult to learn, but well worth the patience needed.
Using virtually any HTML editor, you can cut and paste to get a wide variety of interactive functions on to your site, from chat to online ordering and much more. It does require a good bit of sophistication, so this is not a good book for the web-writing newbie, but if you know what you are doing and you need to bring a project in quickly and under budget, this should be within arm's grasp of your computer desk. There's a running argument between our web designers over which is better - Corel or Adobe PhotoShop. Built in graphics compression tools are incredible. Current version is 6, but we're still using Version 5.