HTML editors

[Mister X]

Dreamweaver MX and Homesite make a pretty good combo. MX 2004 has much improved stylesheet support that makes it a worthwhile upgrade. Personally I can't see how using a text editor and saving and switching back and forth to a browser window every 30 seconds can be very productive. Especially if you are using css or dhtml and trying to fine tune things. The code view in Dreamweaver is just as good as using notepad and in fact immeasurably better with the Find and Replace functions, etc. For sure there are always going to be times when you have to go into the source code to adjust things but wysiwyg is really a timesaver. And if you have more than one site and you actually manage them rather than just designing for someone else it is a definite must to have a full featured program like Dreamweaver. Frontpage is a much improved editor but it STILL suffers from a ton of code bloat and incompatibility problems. There are a couple of good extensions for Dreamweaver to remove redundant/nested tags, etc. also. And there are integrated browser check functions that will tell you if something is going to fail in a particular browser BEFORE you code the whole page and try it.