I personally feel that Dreamweaver is one heck of a great program. I wouldn''t want to build anything without it. It doesn''t create bloated code, and WYSIWYG is the way to go, as web pages are graphical in nature. And BTW if you want to the HTML is available for editing from the program, so no fuzz for the notepad freaks.

1st Page 2000 all the way!

I have been using 1st Page for some time now and I love it. I rarely use the HTML inserting buttons, but I love having a colour swatch available in my editor. Like I know what the Hex value is for Purple off the top of my head.

Anyways, 1st Page also does syntax highlighting for Java and Perl as well as HTML.

borngamer


Man was born to game, we only work to pay for our toys!

I still can''t believe people are actually recommending Notepad. That has got to be the most basic, featureless program out there. You can make a program exactly like notepad but defaults the saving and opening file extension to .htm (in otherwords, a better Notepad) in about 5 minutes in MFC.

Almost any other text editing program out there is better than Notepad. Heck, what reason could you possibly have to use Notepad over FrontPage''s text editor (no code bloat) other than cost? And if cost is a concern, there''s hundereds free text editors with syntax hilighting and stuff out there...

- Houdini

I love the simplicity of MS Notepad.

If MS could only increase the size of files it can load,
(it has a 64k limit?), and not touch anything else, then
I would love it even more.

And I don''t like using other higher forms of MS Notepad,
like MS Wordpad, because it always screws up my formatting.

Here is some advice...

Dong

If you save a file in the standard ascii text format in wordpad, everything looks as it does in notepad but you can load a file of any size. So, if you''re gonna use a text editor, go with that.

I personally like the WYSIWYG programs, but they do generate some bloated code. I haven''t seen DreamWeaver, but I do use Adobe GoLive! and that seems to generate some decent code. It''s not perfect, and no program is...but the time savings are worth it. Creating a professionally designed page in notepad would just seem to me to be rediculous because of how much time it would take unless you are a genious with html. But this was obviously someone who doesn''t know html, or knows very little. Even if you do use a WYSIWYG program, still learn html because those programs don''t always do what you want them to and so some knowledge of html is helpful.

I use two tools when I create web-pages. These are Emacs and DreamWeaver.

Emacs is an excellent editor. If you''re on a Unix/Linux-box chances are it''s installed already. If you''re on windows, you can get it here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

Dreamweaver is really the best WYSIWYG HTML-editor in existence. It''s fast, easy to use, and doesn''t generate bloated code. Most of the time, anyway. In any case, it''s miles ahead of any other WYSIWYG editor out there.

~Neophyte

- Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth. -

I''m surprised that so many of you are using simple text editors. But I guess this is normal on a board full of programmers

I worked with edit for about half a year, but as soon as I noticed the IDE of VC does syntax highlighting for html files as well as source files, I started using the VC IDE...
Works very well, especially that I can create project and add collect all htmls of a page just as I would do with source files in normal C/C++ projects.
Instead of having ''win32 debug'' and ''win32 release'' targets, I set up my projects to contain ''win32 ie'' and ''win32 netscape'', each one running the appropriate browser instead of compiling my project

-Markus-

quote: Original post by Cygon

I''m surprised that so many of you are using simple text editors. But I guess this is normal on a board full of programmers

No, programmers SHOULD be using the best tool for the job. I''m sure none of them use notepad to write their games/apps, but rather use products like Visual Studio to help make their jobs easier. So why would they use Notepad instead of a free, simple, html editor with syntax highlighting, and other goodies?

I've spent almost five years with HTML, so I'm pretty sure I've got it "mastered". Obviously, I find that writing the code out yourself to be the easiest method. On the other hand, I've never really used a program to make a website.
If you insist on making the page with a program, I've worked a little with FrontPage and HotDog.. they seem alright. I don't really have anything to compare those to.

I would strongly suggest learning HTML, because it's extremely easy. (I was making my own pages in a month or so after having hardly no programming experience).

Find yourself some easy tutorials to read, or ask some questions. I recommend ProgrammingTutorials.com or HTMLGoodies.com. HTML Goodies doesn't really have any tutorials, but is written by one man, who is very expierenced with web pages.

If you decide to learn HTML and have any questions in the future, go ahead and email me at ichimaera@hotmail.com.

Edited by - Chimaera on November 13, 2000 6:17:57 PM