With the likes of http://www.squarespace.com/ and http://www.net-genie.co.uk/ and others offering increasingly good online web building applications, is the era of designing web sites on your own machine locally about to end?
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I have not looked at these in depth, but can you build a web site without a persistent internet connection when you use them? I would imagine there are a lot of people who do some of their work in locations where they do not have a connection, and then upload the site when they do.
Can you create/update the site without actually affecting the live site? Having the site on a local machine first allows previewing and approval if needed before committing the change.
Do these tools allow you to create effects and image manipulation like you can in Freeway?
There are a lot of things you can do within the confines of a web browser nowadays, but there are also things you probably cannot. But I also think innovation and competition is a good thing.
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Experience tells me that using a web browser to do anything - web sites, word processing, look after databases, etc., is such a laboured process that after a while, you really yearn for the speed immediacy of a desktop application.
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