HTML Editor Recomendations

[NullUnit2000]

I need a little help here. I'm getting ready to put together an online portfolio and I need an easy to use, inexpensive HTML editor.

I basically have NO experience making web pages so something user friendly would be best.

Thanks!

[DarkFury]

Text editor maybe? :D






Hey... don't look at me like that... it's what I use. :D (NoteTab is the Mother of all Text editors. :D )

[Molinak Sun]

the most user friendly editor i know is microsofts frontpage.

[DaFunkyUnit]

Text editor maybe? :D






Hey... don't look at me like that... it's what I use. :D (NoteTab is the Mother of all Text editors. :D )


myself, i'm a fan of TextPad (also lets you code/compile/run Java, if you have the JDK installed!)

[mcs328]

VI EDITOR!!!!! I'm kidding don't use that. I use notepad myself and that's assuming you know how to write html. Frontpage and I think some others one will give you a wizard to create a web page if you don't know html.

[mechmike0034]

http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

Free, don't know anything about it, though

[Maarchk]

Text editor maybe? :D

Hey... don't look at me like that... it's what I use. :D (NoteTab is the Mother of all Text editors. :D )

I didn't realize how many people use text editor and think nothing about it. I do it all the time and everyone i see is like, wow you do that too? Maybe one day we can put adobe and front page out of business on the strength of the almight Text Pad.

[DarkFury]

I didn't realize how many people use text editor and think nothing about it. I do it all the time and everyone i see is like, wow you do that too? Maybe one day we can put adobe and front page out of business on the strength of the almight Text Pad.
Exactly...

Learn to code folks... Microsoft Frontpage SUCKS @ss... and more or less it messes with (i.e. restructures) previous coding on HTML pages which is why I hate it with a passion. :2far:

BTW... if you are used to using a text editor, give Notetab Lite a try.. (http://www.notetab.com/), this little freeware program is one of the most powerful and flexible text editors out there. I absolutely LOVE it. :D

[Kevster]

Exactly...

BTW... if you are used to using a text editor, give Notetab Lite a try.. (http://www.notetab.com/), this little freeware program is one of the most powerful and flexible text editors out there. I absolutely LOVE it. :D

I absolutely LOVE this program too! My whole engineering group uses it now since we're always doing command line stuff.

[Maarchk]

Exactly...

Learn to code folks... Microsoft Frontpage SUCKS @ss... and more or less it messes with (i.e. restructures) previous coding on HTML pages which is why I hate it with a passion. :2far:

BTW... if you are used to using a text editor, give Notetab Lite a try.. (http://www.notetab.com/), this little freeware program is one of the most powerful and flexible text editors out there. I absolutely LOVE it. :D

I'll give it a try. Thanks guys :) :thumbup:

[Burzhui]

Ehh i used to use notepad... then i switched to homesite, then i went to frontpage and hated it, then went to dreamweaver... so now i use dreamweaver mx and if i need to fine tune something i just go in through the design view and type in whatever i need to type in. But learning the code is essential, cause all of those web building software will try to do things you don't want them to do, just because whoever built the parses specified it to be so

[hapoo]

I started out using notepad, then i saw it took too long to do the same ish over and over again. Now what i do is start off in frontpage, and do my initial layout. Then i take that and open it in notepad and optimize/edit it to my liking. It significantly cuts down on the time it takes me to make a site.
Just cause i know html doesn't mean i have to act all 1337 and use a text editor when there are tools out there to make my life easier.

[dRu168]

frontpage = teh suck

dreamweaver = industry standard can't go wrong

if u can't afford it/don't want an illegial copy, then look on tucows for free html editors, there are a lot of them and some are actually really good if you aren't doing anything complicated. =)

[DarkFury]

I started out using notepad, then i saw it took too long to do the same ish over and over again. Now what i do is start off in frontpage, and do my initial layout. Then i take that and open it in notepad and optimize/edit it to my liking. It significantly cuts down on the time it takes me to make a site.
Just cause i know html doesn't mean i have to act all 1337 and use a text editor when there are tools out there to make my life easier.
Most of us who use text editors already have basic "templates" out that takes out most of the work...

Notepad does in fact suck... however with NoteTab... I love how you can open up multiple pages at a time and then do global copy/paste functions. It also has all kinds of HTML "helplers" (if you need those) and if you buy the Pro version you get a few more tools including the spellchecker...

Nobody is saying that you have to act l337 if you use a text editor... it just says that you like having full control over what you are doing.... whereas folks who don't know how to code depend on the tool to do it for them. Plus... where I work, we have to observe "Americans with Disability" (i.e. Section 508) standards which are not automatically built into those commerical HTML editors... so in the end you need to know some coding to make everything compliant.

More or less... most good text editors are FREE while you generally have to purchase the good HTML editors (i.e. Dreamweaver is the only one I'd personally recommend)

[sho.gun]

dreamweaver

[dsuds]

I used to use Homesite before they got bought out by Macromedia. Still use it for some layout work. Very clean code. Doesn't fsck up everything like FrontPage. If you don't want a straight text editor, how about Mozilla Composer? It looks to do about the same as Homesite. Plus it comes free with a great browser. :)

Not sure if DF is using CSS or not for his "templates" but I would definitely spend some time working with those. You can make a very nice style sheet and basically dump straight text into it for your content. IMO they are the best way to make 508 compliant pages.