Poll: Which Web editor do you use?
Personally, I prefer Homesite, but I've recently switched to a Mac for most of my work, and Homesite isn't available for Mac. So now I use several different editors, depending upon the site I'm working on and the content. I use Dreamweaver, Komodo IDE, and TextWrangler. The majority of my work I do in Dreamweaver.
I didn't include Flash because while it's possible to use it to build a complete website, I don't think that's a really good idea. If that is the only Web editor that you use, please mark the "other" option and post a comment.
One thing to keep in mind is that just because one editor is more popular than another doesn't necessarily make it the best. I have reviewed hundreds of different editors, and I've only found one that I couldn't recommend in any circumstances. If you're looking for a new editor, I have a a questionnaire that can help.
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I use a bunch of ‘em depending on which I think is right for a particular project (and free).
1st Page 2000–general use
Arachnophilia 4.0–can make up an infinite variety of custom toolbars for repetitive work (though this isn’t user friendly)
Notepad++–for quick revisions
FrontPage Xpress–for forms wizard
Kompozer–for quick and dirty visual page creation.
33% (so far) say they use “Something Else”. What, “Else”?
I answered NoteTab or Notepad++, but I actually use Notepad2. Those were the closest options… I think…
On Windoze I use CSE Html validator, which is a great editor, as well as validator.
On linux i use gedit with lots of plugins.
I use Eclipse with the Flex plugin.
Coffee Cup HTML Editor - although it leaves some things to be desired with respect to CSS I like the ‘tidy’ implementation and the preview option. I NEVER use the WYSIWYG option. ” Cadre WebWorks=”">
I have used EditPlus for about 7 or 8 years.
I tried a lot of editors, including Homesite, Notepad++ maybe I am just used to EditPlus it is powerful and simple.
I do use kindasorta WYSIWYG rich text editors in Drupal (TinyMCE and FCKeditor mostly) but I end up editing the source a lot, sometimes just to clean it up or to achieve a format the editor can’t seem to get.
I loathe Dreamweaver - I have to fix up these sites with crazy tables and all the css styles are numbered (what the heck does style77 mean?) the only good thing in Dreamweaver is the automatic upload of saved edits but so what?
I have tried the free version of CoffeeCup if I used WYSIWYG I might use that.
Again, I think it comes down to 1) the right tool for the job and 2) what you’re used to
I use a program called WeBuilder. Can be found at http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/ integrates a ton of very useful items, tidy, good CSS editor, ect. Can be used for just about every web language you can think of. Enjoy!
Personally I generally use CoffeeCup HTML Editor for a vast majority of my work (they do a free editor with some features disabled). I agree with Gerry (6) above with regard to “visual editor”. I’ve often found that visual editors regardless of who supplies them bloat code with tags.
I also use good ol’ notepad for a quickie.
I still use Hippie97!
on windows: rj textedit.
on kubuntu: quanta.
they are the best.
I use vi, Gedit and Netbeans.
HTMLPad has worked great for me.
I use quanta.
I use either Notepad or Mozilla Composer usually.
I used to use FrontPage until my ISP stopped accepting uploads from it. Now I use Dreamweaver. Good color coding and validation is top notch. I use FTP Commander to upload, which FrontPage forced me to use toward the end.
I use vi mostly. Although the features are cool in dreamweaver I just never got used to it. After vi, wordpad or notepad are my next highest.
I’ve tried just about every commercial package that has hit the market in the past 10+ years and “cleaned up” sites from all those and more (like FrontPage).
For me, BBEdit is on top and nothing else has come close to knocking it off.
I know it’s Mac-Only, but it’s worth it.
Even though Homesite is “moribund”, I continue to use it, even after trying to switch to Dreamweaver 3 times. If you’re a code-type designer, try it. I can almost say it is the best computer program of any type that I have ever used. Yes, it could use a couple fixes, but overall with all the features and ability to work on a whole site at one time, I haven’t been able to stop using it. I just wish Adobe would bring it back to life.
I use Dreamweaver mostly, but I have an old version, so I’ve been using Notepad++ increasingly to edit CSS and XML, which my version of Dreamweaver doesn’t handle well. Frankly I haven’t seen any tool that handles CSS intuitively, so I’d rather work with the raw code.
I use dreamweaver for design and aptana for programing.
Namo Web Editor …. does what I need, and if I ever learned it, could do so much more!!
I use HomeSite for coding and editing. I am trying to learn Dreamweaver, but it takes lots of time and work to learn the functions. Sometimes, I use Dreamweaver for inserting images and for other functions does not handle well.
i use EditPlus
I use Notepad++ for Windows and gedit for Linux. My school no longer gives students Dreamweaver for free, so now I use KompoZer for WYSIWYG environments. And, since it’s free, I’ve also installed and learned to use Visual Studio’s Visual Web Designer. Because I teach professional writing/writing (and not web design or development or whatever) it’s as important to me to anticipate what students might use and how they use it as it is to be able to perform the task.
Browser extensions are also important editing tools - Web Developer, Greasemonkey, and Stylish have been essential for me.
I don’t use an editor. My website builder which is free is a HTML generator. It offers unlimited amount of usage. It is the most versatile website builder in the WORLD! If you are interested in seeing all the features go here
I believe the days of the editor is limited. New technology makes if very easy to insert images, videos, php etc… All the tools you would want to use is just a click away.
Aptana more and more and Dreamweaver not as much, even though I just popped for the upgrade to CS3 (I got Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. as part of the deal.)
I’ve always liked Dreamweaver, but the more I use Aptana the more I appreciate its power. And I’m just using the free version.
I like DW as a WYSIWYG editor, although I don’t really like WYSIWYG editors too much by themselves. Most often I use DW for laying out a page’s content, then clean up the code via lots of search/replace, grep, etc; and finally go into the raw sources to finnish off the page. I use Notepad++ as my “default” for source editing, but I’m quite comfortable with any text editor, as long as it has a decent syntax highlighting and doesn’t mess up my code without my permission (for example, did you know that DW MX used upper-case by default for XHTML tags and attributes? that’s the kind of stuff I do not want in an editor).