Dreamweaver or Notepad? The Debate!

[r1zeek]

I'd say, Use dreamweaver if your time is precious to you, use notepad if your time is not precious to you.

But whatever you use, do learn how to do proper html / css / asp / php / etc.

Butuz

Hmm, I use Notepad at the moment, just have been messing around with Textpad.

The thing is I don't have anything near £500 to buy Dreamweaver with and I am certainly not getting a pirate copy!

[Daymonkey]

well i have dreamweaver for the minute until i learn how do write html and css properly.
half way through the books there pretty thick.

[space_onion]

I use JOE running from UNIX. Small, fast, powerful. lovely.

I seem to be the only person in the world that knows this editor exists...

[Butuz]

Well - 90% of people use windows - is Joe available for windows? If not then its not much of a surprise that most people dont know about it

Butuz

[Gordy]

I use a combination of dreamweaver mx and textpad. Dreamweaver is my preffered option as I find its much quicker

[Captain Fizz]

Dreamweaver IMHO.

Fully aggree with Butuz and considering I hardly ever manage to finish a game, let alone do 1/2 the things I want to do with the PC/Server due to an overactive social life, I'll stick with it.

Notepad can be used to great effect. As can Dreamweaver. But DW is a lot less hassle - Don't need to know as much.

[scottyman]

i think the biggest problem with dreamweaver is that people use it to take shortcuts.
when you've got people defining templated areas for other staff which never get used or activated - you end up with reams of rubbish scattered throughout the code. It's a bit pointless really, and there are better ways to define editable areas in a doc.. don't use them, and just include other docs for custom content. simple.
textpad is great, but I'm now using PHPEdit instead as it's context highlighting is much better, it's quicker to edit documents. I just use dreamweaver for tidying up the layouts (and it still hasn't got it's head around tpl files ) - worst £800 I ever spent. :/ i.e. I've never been able to do more than make a box move in flash - so I've even uninstalled it as it's very presence annoys me!

Some of the new stuff in ASP.NET 2 is very cool - am going to be playing with that soon - looks amazing. (as a slightly off topic comment - look in the latest PC Pro)

[bsodmike]

GoLive CS - code view & live preview Handles CSS nicely too!

[DaKid]

I used textpad for HTML, Javascript, CSS, Java, JSP and SQL. I could never live without it. It's a million times better than Notepad in every way (as galactic a difference as the one between Paint and Photoshop), and thanks to using Textpad I know everything I code inside out because I have to handle the syntax myself.

Dreamweaver? Not used it for years, but I don't like the idea of letting anything else write my code, be it HTML, CSS or Javascript. If something writes my code for me, then I won't know how it's doing it, if it's the best way to do it and what bugs I can expect it to introduce.

For me, it's a case of Textpad all the way. Flippin' marvellous program!