HMTL: Editors?

Dear All

I am hoping to revamp the Post & Tymes shortly and was wondering if any could recommend any HTML Editors etc

many thanks

If you're poor, notepad
If you're rich, Dreamweaver.

For something in-between, I rather liked EmEditor - it's only text editting again, but it's rather nice for programming languages, html and so forth.

If you asked nicely, I'm sure some web design guru (or best offer) would make you a nice template that you could just edit for content and whatnot?

Funny, someone said I was cheap :P

Try CoffeeCup Free from Download.com (search for HTML Editor) or keep an eye on PC mag cover discs for freebies of one kind or another.

Dear All,

Thanks for your feedback Dreamweaver and Ilservian and I await more comments etc

Dreamweaver is indeed the best, as are all the Macromedia suite programs, but it has a y high learning curve to it, not for the faint hearted.

Try First Page - I swear by it, (or swore by it) when I used to have a site

Homesite is a v user friendly experience, used by most agencies and companies I've worked for, although Dreamweaver has better version control. Both are now macromedia products. As a coder, I prefer Homesite (although I believe they've recently bundled Homesite with Dreamweaver 8)

Many thanks to Coin_, Nightwalker and d3lf_uk for their suggestions.

Bah! Edit+ beats all hands down. Syntax highlighting and built in FTP what more could you want!

Dreamweaver, i've killed Designers after mutilating my code with this monstrosity. However the CD it comes on can be used as to put your mug of tea/coffee on while you are working. Not bad value for £230.

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Homesite is a v user friendly experience, used by most agencies and companies I've worked for, although Dreamweaver has better version control. Both are now macromedia products. As a coder, I prefer Homesite (although I believe they've recently bundled Homesite with Dreamweaver 8)

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Yep Homesite is (was?) great but I haven't used it in ages. Generally I just code sites directly. I'm using JEdit at the moment (you'll need a Java Runtime installed on your machine) mainly because I'm a JSP / Servlet programmer so I feel I have to support my language and because since it's Java I can use it on my Linux work PC and my Windoze home one.

I gave up on Dreamweaver ages ago as its easier to code by hand anyway and I'm used to using Stylesheets to control the layout of my site anyway so I don't really need WYSIWYG.

WYSIWYG lies a bit anyway...

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Dreamweaver, i've killed Designers after mutilating my code with this monstrosity

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First thing you need to do with Dreamweaver is turn off EVERYTHING that alters the code automatically - then it's great!

I use it daily, but in HomeSite mode. Have no idea what all the automated features are or what they do!

Notepad: the professional's choice

er, that site is a bit old btw ...

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stylesheets?

I just use the built in text editor of WinSCP for my site. Cheap as chips, well cheaper than chips actually as it's completely free

Red's back

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stylesheets?

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CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

They let you customise the appearance of elements within a page, you can also save them as a seperate file to your webpage and reference them within the HTML so the page's filesize is smaller, makes it good for search engine optimisation.

There's been a lot of hot air on this topic with little to show for it, but Notepad was always the weapon of choice for real webpage creation before Dreamweaver came along, it just depends on how versed you are with HTML. Dreamweaver will simplify a lot of it for you but as was already mentioned you have to spend time learning to use the package so there's a bit of a learning curve, if you know sufficient HTML to code it yourself you don't need to bother with a fancy editor just stick with the basics. If you're just after a quick revamp and aren't too familiar with HTML, you're probably better off using some entry level site generator instead of an actual editor. There are quite a few of those and you don't need to pay anything to use them, a lot are built in to the free webspace provider pages so their users can create homepages quickly.

Indeed. HTML is a structural language and should contain nothing that influences your design. All design should be external in a CSS file - http://www.w3schools.com is a great start if you want to learn, then head over to http://www.csszengarden.com and see what you can do with CSS!

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Indeed. HTML is a structural language and should contain nothing that influences your design. All design should be external in a CSS file - http://www.w3schools.com is a great start if you want to learn, then head over to http://www.csszengarden.com and see what you can do with CSS!

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The lady knows what she's talking about.

Zen Garden is a really great site, certainly an eye opener for people who never considered using CSS beforehand due to their not realising just how drastically it can affect the appearance of a page, only problem is that once you visit the page you generally waste a good few hours looking at all the templates they have on there because they're just that good.

Hehe, if you want to waste a few hours (and are interested in website design etc), go here - my very favourite link!

http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

So many links... *starts clicking*

PS: You suck.

Make sure you don't miss the sites that link to other sites - this one links to 195 others!

http://www.cbel.com/style_sheets/

Yes, yes... I'm quite sure I hate you now.

Then my job here is done

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Indeed. HTML is a structural language and should contain nothing that influences your design. All design should be external in a CSS file - http://www.w3schools.com is a great start if you want to learn, then head over to http://www.csszengarden.com and see what you can do with CSS!

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I use Zen Garden to convert people to the ways of CSS, most of them argue that if it can be done in HTML what is the point in learning something new. That always proves the point.

Oh and great links to those 2 sites full of links (that can't be good english can it). Not seen them before but i noticed some of my favourite resources listed on there

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most of them argue that if it can be done in HTML what is the point in learning something new

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I get this all the time. Very frustrating - the same people who insist on using Internet Explorer as a web design tool!