Best Web Design Software

[ian]

Everyone seems to hate frontpage, whilst Macromedia dreamweaver seems to be the most popular choice out there. Anyone tried any other options?

[[tab]]

I like hand coding with a text editor... usually vim.

[ian]

what advantages does vim have over something like notepad?

[[tab]]

Originally Posted by ian

what advantages does vim have over something like notepad?

I doubt you'd like it... it's confusing at first. I like it because you can do everything from the keyboard, and it has some nice search/replace stuff.

There are plenty of text editors better than Notepad... the good ones autoindent for you, and colour your code.

[ian]

Originally Posted by [tab]

There are plenty of text editors better than Notepad... the good ones autoindent for you, and colour your code.

Notepad comes in handy cause there are times when you want an editor which does absolutely nothing with the code. I use notepad all the time when I have to change certain parts of files.
But Im not one of those people who could build a site using notepad.

[[tab]]

First thing I do on a Windows computer is add a link to Notepad.exe in my "Send To" folder...

[Chroder]

I thought the poll was intended for WYSIWYG editors, so I chose Dreamweaver.

But if we're talking about editors in general, then EditPlus is the best I tried VIM but I don't like it, what advanced features does it have (say, over EditPlus)? Just that everything is from the keyboard?

One thing I wish EditPlus had was folding (where you can collapse areas of code), I think VIM has that.

[[tab]]

I don't think vim can do that, but Kedit can...

[Chroder]

There's a whole section on it in the VIM FAQ

[[tab]]

Cool...

I keep learning how to do things in vim, then forgetting it when I don't use it for months. I generally just hit "%" to go to the closing bracket/brace/paranthesis of the current bit of code... it keeps it easy for my simple mind.