Favourite html editors...

[virtualadz]

2 very different groups of devlopers are making those votes. Goes to show some of us are visually and creatively inclined while others of us are more procedural and text based.

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right.

I fall into the latter.

i go with notepad, not becoause it's good or other things but i have never used dreamweaver in my 2 yrs of webdesign learning

[boen_robot]

Right now, they are equal again as usual (with 38 votes each). I use Dreamwaver 8, but despite that, I use it's hand coding abilities, which in version 8 are really well though. I hate WYSIWYG editors for reasons we all know.

[The Praetorian]

2 very different groups of devlopers are making those votes. Goes to show some of us are visually and creatively inclined while others of us are more procedural and text based.

Well, technically speaking, with the exception of image editing, anything that can be done from Dreamweaver can be done with a plain-text editor. It's just a matter of if you know the codes or not. From what I understand of it Dreamweaver just does the coding for you.I personally consider myself creatively inclined and visual, yet I still choose to use notepad2 and do everything by hand, rather than let a program do it, because I prefer to know exactly what goes into the design of my website. Also, if anything ever happens to the program, or if for any reason it becomes unaccessable, I'm not left stranded with no way to edit my website.Not that that would happen to anyone here. Most of the people around here seem to have a good handle on both. Long story short, I prefer to be hands on, even if it takes longer.And frankly speaking, I prefer that it takes longer because.. well.. i have no life. heh.

[aspnetguy]

some days I wish I had no life, man I have to much to do!

[Little Goat]

because I prefer to know exactly what goes into the design of my website.

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exactly right.

[Daemoen]

You guys disappoint me.VIM is available in *all* environments (both cli version and the G version), supports *any* ascii filetype there is, as well having the most syntax highlighting files of any editor out there currently.For those of you who love text editing, but want pure power, get GVIM, and run through the tutorial, read up on the scheme's option... give it 1 week... if you dont love it, youre nuts!http://www.vim.orgSeriously, more of you need to check programs out before you try to judge them, I have literally tried almost every one of the programs on this list. As far as the full blows IDE's go, Ill stick with DW8 for general web development. If I want to have more control over things, more power on search/replace, etc I will definately stick with my VIM.DOWN WITH NOTEPAD!!!!!!!

[chinni26]

Why does DREAMWEAVER cost so much much?!!

[justsomeguy]

Because it's made by a for-profit corporation who thinks that it is worth that much. People buy it. The same reason Photoshop is so much.

[aleksanteri]

I changed my editor from NP2 to NP++... I like the way you can create your own syntax highlightings.

[aspnetguy]

I have been using np2 and like its simplicity (still like notepad) but has the added text highlighting.

[chinni26]

Because it's made by a for-profit corporation who thinks that it is worth that much.  People buy it.  The same reason Photoshop is so much.

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I never tryed Dreamweaver thats why I asked that question.

[Sniffy]

I like notepad the best. No skills required to use, just right down your code and go to your ftp manager after saving the file in the format you want.

[Cronthenoob]

yeah that back text and white BG is kind of dull . I got the UltraEdit-32 text editor, I've already got attachted to it.

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UltraEdit-32 is amazing

[Oleszka]

I've used Dreamweaver for long time because I was bad at html but now I try to use notepad just to learn html tags and understand them and their atributes

[joecoolaug]

I'd like to try out Dreamweaver8... but it's a little expensive for my needs . I stick with the good ol' Notepad. Pure. Text.

[aspnetguy]

try Notepad2...it is just like Notepad except with line numbers and code highlighting.

[justsomeguy]

Try ConTEXT...it is just like Notepad2 except it makes women HAWT!

[joecoolaug]

Wow. I'm going to use Notepad2 for all my programming from now on. They even have Java and Pascal Source Code schemes!As far as I can see, the only downside is that they don't have Linux Line Endings, --because I have a Linux-- but that's okay, because I don't even know what line endings are . Unix is close enough, right?

[justsomeguy]

There aren't "Linux" line endings. Linux uses Unix-style endings.

[joecoolaug]

The link for dreamweaver8 doesn't work! It comes up "Error: Page not found!"

[justsomeguy]

It looks like the link got truncated and ... got put in the middle of it. You can always browse the Adobe site yourself though, it shouldn't be hard to find.

[aquatsr]

Don't know if it's the same as Notepad2, but Notepad++?

[Paraiya]

I'm completely new to HTML and all the crazy coding but I just use Windows Notepad.

[danm68]

Please don't rot your mind with an editor!!!! :)You learn so much more by using notepad and hand coding. You develop much stronger coding skills. Even with .Net I use Notepad at home...I only us VS.net at work because I have to.Just my opinion though.

Agreed! Notepad IMHO is quite good...its simple easy to understand if you set out your code correctly but sometimes gets confusing if not set out...or otherwise i just get confused by lots and lots of tags in small places...so notepad2 does highlightng? hmm...is there an editor very similiar to notepad which is just easier to read (somtimes..) or coloring the words or whatnot..also..who uses dreamweaver? i feel like having a rant..nothing professional..just to say i dont like it:P it gets annoying how it always trys to fill in the attributes your writing..even though they may not be associated with that tag..so if you could turn that off that would be nice, and...that about all really...nothng serious but i just dont like it..lol..ok i just rememberd why i dont like it..because i prefer to do coding by hand..as aspnetguy says..you probbly do develop better coding skills..coz im better then my mate..(hes like a hack at it..lol) and he has dreamweaver... and yes you learn more! good things in DM...the highlighting (it does highlight right? i only used once at friends place..) and the split screen is ok..but still im comfy with notepad... k Finished!

[aspnetguy]

notepad 2 is exactly like notepad except it shows line numbers and does code highlighting...if it had tabbed documents it would be perfect (and yes I know conTEXT does have that )