HTML Editors

[robbiehall]

Does anyone have a favourite editor? I would use FrontPage but am not sure if the server supports them (how do you tell?) and Word does this stupid Microsoft Archive thing when you save a page.
Any ideas guys and gals?

Cheers
Rob

[LWA]

I'd have to say Notepad2.

Completely free and has syntax highlighting for many languages. Also you don't have to install it, it works as a standalone executeable so you carry on a pen drive for example.

[this_is_gav]

For WYSIWYG, I can only recommend Dreamweaver. It's all down to budget though, and Dreamweaver is anything but cheap (can get good deals as a student though, IIRC).

[EvilWeevil]

Max's HTML Beauty

I've used this for a while, and it does all the usual syntax highlighting for html, css etc, but if you're feeling lazy it's got tag designers for pretty much anything

[McClane]

I second Notepad2 unless you want a WYSIWYG editor. Word is the last thing you want to be using for HTML.

[kopite]

I use context which i think is pretty cool.

[torched_geek]

I would recommend Coffeecup
http://www.coffeecup.com/

However you have to pay for it (Although there is a trial version, which is what I normally have )

[directhex]

any text editor with syntax highlighting

you don't want wysiwyg.

[Mattus]

Frontpage isn't the same as Frontpage extensions. You can write a web page in Frontpage and it'll output standard HTML like any other editor.

You don't want to, though... I think 'standard HTML' may be pushing it a bit far. It produces appalling code. If you want to go for a graphical editor, I'd suggest Dreamweaver, but you'll produce a better site and learn a lot more by coding it by hand in Notepad2 or PSPad.

[torched_geek]

If you have the time to learn, I'd recommend the use of XHTML (eXtended Hyper Text Mark Up Language, or so I believe), alongside CSS(Cascade Styling Sheets) and Javascript.

XHTML is a much stricter version of HTML, and isn't too hard to learn if you're already knowledgeable about HTML, the main differences are that all tags must be in a lower case format and it contains a different way of closing tags.

CSS sheets are very useful if you wish to be able to control the style of multiple sheets at once, it is perfect for the lazy guys and it is considered more 'correct' to use CSS, because HTML isn't meant to be able to control the colour or styling of a page.

Javascript is often overlooked, do to how hard it is to learn, but my ICT teacher(A web designer also) showed a couple of us the possibilities of Javascript, with it being able to display the same results as BOTH Flash and PHP within one language.

If you wish to learn more about web programming I would recommended visiting the W3Schools Website : http://www.w3schools.com

[awm]

I've used emeditor on the PC (basic text editor with syntax coloring, free for students I believe). On the mac BBEdit light does exactly what the name implies: edits text with no frills (once again free).

[robbiehall]

Thanks Guys, very interesting.

Cheers
Rob

[directhex]

Javascript is often overlooked, do to how hard it is to learn, but my ICT teacher(A web designer also) showed a couple of us the possibilities of Javascript, with it being able to display the same results as BOTH Flash and PHP within one language.

the reason being that it's 100% browser-dependant. you need different code to deal with different versiosn of MSIE, netscape, opera, mozilla, etc. And that doesn't cound browsers which don't have any javascript support, or people who can't use it (e.g. blind people using a screen reader)

don't use javascript other than to enhance non-javascript content, i.e. don't make a page which NEEDS it.

[even steven]

Nvu is pretty good.

[herulach]

i'm a fan of Chami's HTMLedit, but also nvu is pretty good if you need a wysiwig designer. (i.e. youre lazy/just need a simple editor)