Anyone out there have a good recommendation for either a software program or a website that is useful for creating primers? Any input would be much appreciated!

The IDT website has a good integrated oligo designer and they make good oligos

http://www.idtdna.com/SciTools/SciTools.aspx

Also there are oligo features and links to oligo sites built into the Vector NTI suite which is now freely available from invitrogen.

https://catalog.invitrogen.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=userGroup.home

primer3

http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/cgi-bin/primer3/primer3_www.cgi

It has a lot of features , but most are optional. Very good and efficient.

i have used the one from the IDT website many times, and it is very good.