how do the pros make websites? surely they dont use weebly 
do they use notepad to make the website? please reply if you know, God Bless 
I use Netbeans =/
Dreamweaver is also very popular.
do those make you have like: www.example.[insert website name].com ?
There are as many ways to make websites as there are websites. I donāt really think thereās a standard approach to make one. What exactly do you mean by a āproā game website? Any examples?
Personally Iām not very experienced in web design or web development, but when I do engage in it I use Notepad++ for all the coding.
a pro game website like WoW (World of Warcraft)ā¦
www.worldofwarcraft.com
I have my own domain name. Itās just www.[my site name].com
The quality of the website depends on your web design skills.
For $100 I can make you a website?
im a young developer i cant use money 
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How young? I made $1000 between the ages of 11 and 12.
Wingedfox, you can purchase a domain name online. A lot of websites providing this service also provide e-mail domains. So for your World of Warcraft example the supprt@blizzard.net is an e-mail domain. Some also provide hosting, but I highly doubt that Blizzard have someone else hosting their website. As far as making the website goes then you can use any software you like.
This is a site Iāve used before:
http://www.domainexpress.co.uk/
Here, if you get the business package for Ā£90 or so every two years, they HOST the website as well as getting a FREE domain name, along with 100 e-mail accounts.
use a CMS like joomla or something.
They use good grammar. And html, probably. And their brains.
The grammar part is over rated, the other two are a must do ā¦
Coda + Photoshop + WordPress
Obviously no one here ACTUALLY makes (professional) websites, or else theyād have better answers than name-dropping programs.
Iād be interested to know how a AAA quality website like WoWās was done. Both the artwork, GUI, buttons, and code itself. Obviously it can be done with ANY program or code, but itās interesting to know what professionals prefer, and WHY they prefer it.
WoW probably has the best website, IMO, of any gameās website Iāve ever seen.
I absolutely HATE Guild War 2ās new website. When browsing various game websites, I wasnāt even able to access any of SOEās games because of the recent hacking.
They normally hire other āprosā to do them, unless the company has itās own webdesign/webdevelopment section.
text editor (for the client side- all html tools are poor), netbeans or eclipse (for server side, mostly eclipse these days). photoshop+illy+camera+ā¦ (visuals). local server and database; thats what we use.
why not use dreamweaver or some other html helper tool? well because none of them really work well with dynamic serverside code (in reality). if youād like to know the design process of building a site i could go over it, but iād expect the bad situation would get very dull.
and html is outdated, php is what you wantā¦
HTML isnāt outdated, itās just different - PHP and HTML are not mutually exclusive, PHP/ASP pages still make heavy use of HTML (in fact, the most common use of PHP, by far, is to execute server-side code and push dynamic HTML to the client).
Edit:
To actually answer the O.P., Iām with ant001 on this one. Most designers I know use Adobe products for art asset creation (Photoshop/Illustrator) and netbeans. You are not going to find any one-pipeline-fits-all approach though; the only really āstandardā tool is Adobe art products - and only because there really arenāt any good alternatives out there. For everything else there are tons of alternatives, and most of the code is done by hand - so it really comes down to personal preference.
As for CMS, something on the caliber of the WoW webpage uses an in-house solution for content management more often than not. If you want a CMS though, I suggest googling a comparison between all the popular ones - they all have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Thatās a bold assumption, iād hate to think iāve been supporting my family unprofessionally all these years 
A PHP application canāt actually exist without some form of HTML. The H actually stands for hypertext.
Then youāre being lazy with just the 1 + 2 + 3 post.
Not even an ounce of explanation as to why you use those, and what benefits they have (for you) over other applications of web design.