HTML editors

Don Soporno · 02-23-2004, 07:26 AM

I need a new editor, I use coffee cup now, what are some other good ones that are pretty easy to use?

wsjb78 · 02-23-2004, 10:34 AM

I normally use Dreamweave 4 to make the the initial layout and then use EditPlus (text editor) for fine tuning and integrating of PHP

Evil Chris · 02-23-2004, 11:44 AM

Yeah Dreamweaver is all I have used for about six years now.

Visualad · 02-23-2004, 12:00 PM

Dreamweaver MX

cyberxxx · 02-23-2004, 01:04 PM

The X-PAd editor - free, easy to use and no unnecessary features: http://www.maturedesign.com/freestuff.html

sexykitten · 02-23-2004, 01:11 PM

html editor? Lazy asses! use notepad and do it yourself!

okay, so if I had to use an html editor I'd use homesite...but honestly, all the programs that generate code tend to do so very sloppily and add too much unnecessary code. I'd rather do it myself and keep it cleaner.

cyberxxx · 02-23-2004, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by sexykitten
html editor? Lazy asses! use notepad and do it yourself!

okay, so if I had to use an html editor I'd use homesite...but honestly, all the programs that generate code tend to do so very sloppily and add too much unnecessary code. I'd rather do it myself and keep it cleaner.

This is why I recommend the X-Pad editor. It's just an advanced replacement for M$ notepad.exe

Mister X · 02-23-2004, 02:35 PM

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.

Don Soporno · 02-23-2004, 10:54 PM

Dreamweaver sounds like it might be what Im looking for. I have used notepad before but there are to many little things that I forget.

Black Dog · 02-24-2004, 01:46 PM

Frontpage is pretty simple but it works for me!

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Taass · 02-24-2004, 02:55 PM

Namo Webeditor does the job for me.. awesome editor and easy as hell to use

GoodChris · 02-25-2004, 11:28 AM

Use Dreamweaver for your initial layout... and then any text editor to trim the fat out of the code.