Suggestions on HTML/CSS editor

[ASATopGun]

Im pretty much brand new to Web design and looking on this site I see that alot of you dont like dreamweaver. What would you suggest as a good HTML input editor? besides notepad. And also. What is the best route to learning you all would recommend? Thank you!

 

[Phreaddee]

It's all a case of personal preference.

• Some dislike DW because they simply like free products and dislike Adobe more so than DW.
• Some dislike it because they think it's a kids toy, and would prefer to use much more "kewl" editors such as aptana. apparently it "proves" how proficient they are as a developer...
• some dislike it because they have tall poppy syndrome.
• Most however dislike the design view component of DW. and for good reason - it's truly horrific...

Having said that I use it every day and thoroughly enjoy it. I never use design view and can manage all I need from it so have no desire to use anything else.

you can try and use notepad++, aptana, coda, etc etc, but in the end it still comes down to personal preference.

If I dealt with truly hardcore programming languages on a daily basis perhaps I'd need something more substantial but for html/css/js/php editing it is more than adequate.

 

[Edge]

I started off using DW years ago when i didn't know how to code. I now use it in code view and upload pages with it just because I can't be bothered to find something else and it works for me. I don't use it to upload files in bulk as it has this habit of skipping some - I use Filezilla for that. It's just convenient to edit a bit of code sometimes and hit CTRL Shift U and it's up there. The only reason I wouldn't recommend it is it's pretty damn expensive for a code editor and none of the WYSIWYG functionality which you are forking out for really works. It does tie in nicely with Fireworks if you use that.

 

[chrishirst]

I tried using DreamWeaver (Ultra Dev 4) in "Design View", when I DID know how to code, and found it incredibly limiting in what it would allow me to do.

So it became a bloated code editor with FTP and I never updated past DW MX.

 

[junery00]

thank god everyone is using dreamweaver ,because like he said most of people i asked if they use dreamweaver they say no, but now i know why they dont use it , thanks Phreaddee very tru what you said

and by they way Welcome asattopgun im new too and trying to get into the webdesign field too

 

[ASATopGun]

Junery, which program are you going to be using? And which is the route you are taking to learning the basics? And thank you everyone else