HTML editors

I'm a notepad guy myself.

But a friend of mine has one called Arachnophilia, or something like that, it looked quite good. It coloured different types of tags and allowed you to view pages you've written with all the different browsers on your computer. I can't remember where he got it from. Has anyone else heard of it? I know it was free.

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You can get it here

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10084-100-1474656.html?tag=st.dl.10000_103_1.lst.titledetail

Personally, I use a plain text editor (on Unix, where I usually am, I use pico or vi). Frankly, in high school, they had us using some HTML editor that wasn't WYSIWYG, but it had so many options I ended up relying on it to set up tags correctly.

I find WYSIWYG editors very poor (for me), and I preferred to learn HTML by reading up on it and hand-typing it in a no-frills environment.

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Yes, well um....I use DidaPro and find it very very good. It loads quick and is a small file size (756 kb). I'd suggest you get it... http://www.faico.net/dida/
~Park~

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You know, I don't understand why someone would rather use notepad than an editor that makes the whole process a lot easier. But, it's your life, so, whatever... I do agree that some of those "text" editors go a little to far to make it easy for the newbie, but once you know the code why not speed things up a little?

I like to use a program called Webwerx. It has key commands for most common tags and allows you to set up your own (makes hand coding SO much faster). It also has a built in colour picker, different text display for script, HTML tags, URLs etc. and a whole bunch of other stuff. Unlike Hotdog and Arachnophilia, buttons for all the tags aren't displayed all over the screen (just in the traditional Windows menu) so it's not cluttered.

My personally favorite is Macromedia DreamWeaver. But I also use notepad, 1St Page 2000, and Home Site often.

1st Page 2000 is the best FREE HTML editor I’ve seen. The interface is much like Home Site, but all jazzed up.

Check it out at www.evrsoft.com

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Adam
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hi there

adam 1st page 2000 is great(but not the fastest on a 486 )
I will use it alot

I tried that araconphila thing but dident like it

Thankx Josh

Yes- 1st Page 2k is very good, but I don't use it. I use either notepad, and I'm also working on my own text based HTML editor which is designed for serious web developers and also is good for newbies...

Anyway- NOTEPAD ALL THE WAY!

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Different schools of thought on this one....
when I started, I coded a lot using just a plain text editor. It does force you to learn from the ground up...however, as Megs pointed out, why not use an editor that speeds the grunt work up... I use HTML Pro 5...It allows me to embed a lot of the standard objects and then switch to html source code view when I am ready to start doing the real work....

[This message has been edited by tazman (edited 09 January 2000).]

Hi,

GlobalScape's cuteHTML -- free, popups HTML tags & attributes, colors text according to browser sets (you know the set theory from high school 35 years ago?), allows you to run the code in the brower of your choice, allows you to save "code snips" in a directory and then paste them into your code...on and on and on. Best thing -- it doesn't freak at dHTML or CSS code; FrontPage Xpress (which I use for wysiswyging always chews up & throws out and code that follows a <div> tag.

Vinny http://members.aol.com/grassblad

I agree with tazman.
When you're new on HTML it's best to use notepad or stomething like that. Then you HAVE to learn the stuff.
After a while you now the code-basics and then I think the best way is to use more editors together.
I use :

• Allaire Homesite 4.0
  
• Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0
  
• Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0
  

• N O T E P A D
  

When using them together u can take your advantage by using only the +'s of each prog. It works for me!

Jack

[This message has been edited by Jack Michaelson (edited 10 January 2000).]

I use a combination of FP, 1st Page (very Homesite-ish) and notepad.

I hope to switch all over to Dreamwaver 3.0 sometime this year.

Adam - Is there an upgrade somewhere to 1st Page? In December when I brought it up I kept getting a window that said to download the latest version for Y2K compliance. As far as I know I have the latest version (and don't see any Y2K problems). Thanks.

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I also agree with tomworld, it's best to start with Notepad or equivalant. However, I have used FP 2000. It dose allow you to write the HTML, and it has a nace flow to it.

i go with homesite 4.0 too. i don't like these (or those? anyway) wysiwyg-editors like FP and so on...

but i learned it the other way round:
i started with FP and now that i'm more serious about it, i switched to HS...

I think there is a new release of Homesite, anyone know if it is any good?
JP

PS : this topic is now hot!

The latest version of HomeSite is now 4.5

If you like HS (and I do) you'll like 4.5 even more. It kept all the key features intact and added a bunch of new things. If you're one of those FrontPage people that don't like to do your own code, stay away from it.

It added a bunch of new features over 4.01, certainly enough to justify a .01 to .5 naming. Most are high-end, but then again, most people using HS are high end too. Added in 4.5:

Better support for XML, PHP3, etc
Better Style Sheet editing with TopStyle integrated.
Intergrated ImageMap editing
Integrated HTML Tidy
More customization options (though still not enough IMHO. 40Tude blows HS away in that area)
Collapsable code.

Hey guys:

I have been using Macromedia's Dreamweaver 2.01 since it came out and I love it!! I have been using Front page 2000 more and more, and getting use to it. I just got DW 3.0 and I love it!!! I'm a dreamweaver fan!! DW is a very expensive program but well worth it!!!! you shoudl try it for a demo!!! very good program!!!

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I use the one, the only, the simplest: Notepad. Personally, coding HTML (and some other languages as well..) are actually faster for me to do in Notepad than screwing with click... click... click... click... and then you finally have what you needed (maybe an IMG tag or something) when you could just type it out quickly and easily in Notepad... in addition, nothing is faster in speed than Notepad (since it's so simple) ... even on a 486.

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Then you should try Webwerx! Inserting the whole IMG SRC tag can be done with one simple control-P. This is the only editor I've come across so far that actually does this (more of them should IMO - makes it easier for the hard-core hand coders). I hear homesite has key commands too but I haven't actually been able to try it yet.

I forgot to mention Ultra Edit - its directory-wide search and replace function is just great (especially when you have to add 2000 to the copyright statement on all your pages!!!).

I tried first page - too much clutter (and not enough key commands) so it's not something I'll use regularly but I will use it for javascript editing.

I really wish somebody would make an editor that does all three of the above!

I'd say the absolute best is homesite 4.0