Nothing is as reliable as hand coded HTML.

I agree. I started off with Notepad and complete everything by hard coding.

However, Dreamweaver gives you the edge on mistakes, ftp transfer and the most important feature for me is the FIND AND REPLACE. you can update your entire website with the touch of a couple of buttons.

mine has to be dreamweaver but i still only learning

I use both notepad and FrontPage. (admittedly, i use paint for my graphics.)


Mik

For those of you who have used Dreamweaver MX and FrontPage 2003, you know that FrontPage can not be beaten.

FrontPage 2003 beats 2002 or any other version by a long shot.

Why..

Split Mode-
Allows you to view WYSIWYG while coding. Not a feature of previous versions including 2002.

Database Intergration-
Yes. It is possible to intergrate databases (such as Oracle) into websites using 2003. NOT POSSIBLE IN 2002

No More FrontPage Extensions!-
FrontPage 2003 DOES NOT require that you have FrontPage extensions intalled!

Basicly weather your starting out in web design, or are an experianced web designer FrontPage 2003 is where it's at!

Dreamweaver - as a timesaver. I prefer tables over CSS for layout, and hand-coding tables can be a time consuming pain in the @ss. The syntax coloring and debugging tools are also pretty sweet. I don't like how finicky it can be about HTML though - I say if I want to use one font tag for 3 paragraphs, that's my business dag nabbit! *shaking fist*
A close second is TextPad. It's a lot more cost effective than DW, still has some syntax coloring, and actually works with my screen reader.

I like Front Page. I have been using Front Page 2002 for some months and i like it, because i am very lazy.

I actually learned hard coded HTML before I heard about WYSIWYG. However, I sucked at designing and picking colors, so I used mozilla composer for the longest time before learning tables and CSS, and moving back to hard coding. I use metapad, a slightly-glorified version of notepad.

**** is every one stuck in windows!

I use ZEND coding and html. Oh i also use my shell (vi), gedit, kate etc. But mostly ZEND.

Ibbo

ibbo,

Windows really isn't all that bad! However, I have to admit that I will always have a place in my heart for vi -- the editor on which I first learned to code. If I could cast a second vote, I would have to cast it for vi. There is something elegant in its simplicity -- and its complexity!

MICROSOFT IS GOOOOOD! <<-- Kyrnt under the Redmond mind control.

Vim is good but I preffer nano among the linux editors...

I preffer Dreamweaver though. I use it in code view and only ever switch to design view to check how things are coming along. I also only use it mainly for php. The one thing about it I love most is the fact that I can set up my ftp connection and edit directly on the server. It saves me time in uploading constantly to see changes and I don't have to run a webserver on my local machine eating up resources.

What I do is simple:

I write my own code in Notepad. If I run into a problem, then I go-to a website that looks like it has what I want and then I look at their source code to find the problems with my site.

In this manner I have learned HTML all on my own, but I admit there have been times when I have resorted to dreamweaver to learn some code.

I use HTML-Kit myself.

Wordpad.

Dreamweaver all the way. Occasionally I will make a few a changes in notepad for the sake of nastolgia and to remind myself how much fun writing html can be...

I am madly in love with dreamweaver MX and can not imagine another ( IM LOYAL )

DREAMWEAVER MX 2004!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is nothing else. Before DW I used to use HTML-Kit. Before that, wordpad. My first was FrontPage 98.

BTW, if you don't know HTML to begin with and you use a WYSIWIG, please don't call yourself a 'developer' or 'designer'. I have a masters cert in HTML and CF.

Tiggy is where I'm at... hand coding with Text Pad, a really versatile editor which also allows you to start your browser on the file currently being edited. When I first started using View Source to see how a page had been developed, my operating system launched Notepad automatically. Later, I discovered that I could set my browser's default editor to Text Pad. For these and other reasons, I prefer Text Pad and the browser I am coding for as my "coding and design tool" over WYSISYG programs. Many "bloat" the code, over-manage functions, can't implement others and prevent changes to an existing file with an FTP program.

If I had dozens of websites to develop in a short period of time, Dreamweaver is probably a good way to go. Not only because it would be faster than hand coding, but also because it gives you the ability to implement features that would otherwise require expert knowledge of everything from javascript to asp and perl. But it's expensive, and my one-time experience with a "free" copy gave me the impression that the learning curve was pretty steep.

By the way, I'm not trying to start a debate about who or what is a coder or designer. I just tend to think of dragging and dropping with a WYSIWYG editor as designing, not coding, whereas cycling between an editor and a browser is both coding and designing. Just my way of looking at it -- your mileage may vary...

If you are an accomplished developer who can code HTML with your eyes shut, like me, a WYSIWYG speeds through the boring markup by laying out a structure that you go back to in code view to customize. Dreamweaver is the fastest I've ever found because of the built in FTP that can check for changed files if more than one person from more than one location works on the project. I work on projects from two different computers myself and I have to keep the files in sync. It doesn't bloat the code at all and does it exactly how you tell it, unlike FP. The intergration with FW, and FL is pretty cool to. Best of all is the CSS capabilities. For newbies who want to do database integration, DW has an ewxcellent automated database page query maker thingy. I have way to much customizations and advanced queries to use it myself, but it can help out beginners.

When I went from pure code development to DW's WYSIWYG it cut down my development time in half. It's well worth it.

Thats exactly the point I have been trying to make for over a year now.

Originally Posted by DaveMo~

Anyone used NoteTab or NoteTab Pro?

I use EditPad a lot... it's pretty much just an MDI version of Notepad, with a few added features such as minimizing to the system tray rather than the taskbar and having customized word wrapping options.

Text editors are the way to go, though, in my opinion. I've never been able to have the full content control with Frontpage or Dreamweaver that I get when hard-coding my sites.