Poll: What do you think of when you think of a Web editor?
Thursday November 27, 2008
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I use bluefish.
Coda all the way baby.
I use EditPlus which is a good text editor with HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript capability.
It will also preview your file in your choice of browser in one click.
I am spoiled by its excellent color-coding, really helps catch errors.
I don’t use all the features available, mainly the text editing. It can handle massive SQL files, etc. If the file is changed, by ftp for example, it prompts to reload it.
It is free to try, I keep meaning to register it, I am on day 262 of the 30 day trial period, the only nag is a popup when it starts.
I also have CoffeeCup and PSPad and Eclipse - but mostly I use EditPlus.
I tend to think “Dreamweaver” when I hear “Web Editor”, but I hard-code using Notepadd++
phpDesigner 2008
gedit
I’ve gotten quite attached to Notepad++, but I couldn’t very well call it a Web editor since I use it for pretty much everything programming-related.
Scite..try it out…plain simple rocks..
I use Bluefish as a multipurpose editor.
First Page by Evrsoft has been my primary editor for several years. First the free version then the inexpensive one. I have Dreamweaver which I use some. I wind up using Notepad frequently.
I use TextEdit (on a mac), Bluefish (in a Linux environment), and Notepad (in Windows). I think that typing out the code gives you greater control of how the page looks.
I use Dreamweaver for speed of markup and then the quick jump into Code view for special coding exceptions. But, it’s the site management tool that makes it my Web-editor-of-choice.
I use HTML Tidy with CSE HTML Validator and notepad. What is notepad++?
When I first started doing webs I would have thought of Frontpage. Now however I think of any plain text editor. I do most of my work using HTML-Kit or notepad.
I used to always code in Notepad but then I bought Dreamweaver…played around in the “design tab” for a little while but I didn’t like it and I went back to coding (in the “code tab” now). I don’t like the fact that almost everyone can call himself a webdesigner only because he/she knows how to design websites with WYSIWYG editors. For me that is not real webdesign. Webdesign is coding
I use coffeecup.
It has a free version and you can do more than just design a web page, it allows for simple coding and de-bugging.
I also use Notepad for some of the behind th escenes pages.
Crimson Editor
@Millie: Notepadd++ is a free source code editor for multiple languages such as HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, etc. It’s a “basic” text editor with numerous capabilities. It has a small learning curve, but it’s great to use once you get the hang of it — if you’re used to hand-coding.
I have used HTML Kit for several years. Not a wysiwyg, but have some very good plug ins for coding.
Hi,
I use HTML Kit also. I have used it for many years and find it much more useable that Dreamweaver or other Wisiwyg’s I have tried.
HTML Kit has many plug-ins that compliment the program, many of which I find useful.
For a quick look-see or a quick fix I usually use Notepad.
I’ve been using HTML-Kit for many years now, and have found it to be up to anything I ask of it. I’m not to happy that the latest version has a price tag on it, which puts it out of my reach. So I’ll continue to use Build 292 (the free version) till I find a good Open-Source replacement.
I have been using pspad for a year. Its free, open source and very useful.