It used to be that I revelled in the geeky glee that came from composing all of my HTML documents by hand, in notepad. However, I've spent well over two years looking at the current incarnation of my site and thinking, "It really needs an overhaul. I'll get around to it one day" and I keep putting it off because it's such a daunting task.

So, I'm ready to cave. What HTML editors and neato programs do you all use for your web creations? I'm going to start my site over from scratch, and I want something that makes the task super-easy, but has a lot of groovy features. I also would love something that's freeware, but if you know of a program that just kicks several kinds of ass and isn't too expensive, I'll consider that, too.

Your feedback is very much appreciated.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

Well, I've been using FrontPage ( http://www.aesiradornment.com and http://www.dumbentia.com ). It doesn't have gobs of features, but it gets the job done. As for cost... well, surely you know someone who can burn you a copy (hint hint).

I have friends who swear by the Dreamweaver / Fireworks combo, but it seemed overly complex to me. But then, I'm not one to load up my sites with tons of effects.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

At home, I use HTML-Kit, because it's free. It's still basically a text editor, but it has a lot of additional features, most of which are specifically designed for writing web pages. It may take you a couple of days to customize things the way you want them.

At work we have a site license for UltraEdit, which is absolutely incredible. Again, still basically a text editor, but with a whole lot of features/functionality. If you're willing to pay the money and willing to still write the code yourself, I cannot recommend this highly enough.

At work I also sometimes use Dreamweaver. There are a couple of things it does quicker than I can do them in UltraEdit, especially with plugins. It's not terrible, but it's not perfect either, and given a choice I'll still use a text editor.

Hope that helps.

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I went the Notepad route for a long, long time as well. At work I use Frontpage, but it's got some habits I find pretty annoying. At home I've been using Dreamweaver with good results. I don't find it overly complicated. I don't know about the Fireworks portion of it. To me, Dreamweaver is just like a Frontpage clone. It makes things like style sheets and tables just a little quicker since I don't have to type everything myself. I'm sure it does assloads of neat stuff, but I don't use most of it.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I've got Macromedia ColdFusion if you want a copy. I think it's arse, and the geek / coder / webdesign community I hang with thinks it's arse, too, but it's fuckoff expensive and a lot of d00ds use it. Lemme know.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Homesite, PhotoShop and a butt-load of bad taste.

Someday I may sprinkle in some content.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I use Homesite and Ultraedit. Homesite is basically super notepad and some handy wizards (they don't feel like wizards, I promise), so you'd probably feel at home with it.

And as evil_d says, Ultraedit is just the greatest thing ever. I use it for PHP and I can't say enough nice things about it.

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I use Composer in Netscape 6.3.

Previous incarnations wrote terrible, bloated stupid code. The latest version writes decent code but formats it atrociously, and habitually sticks in little superfluous bits, like column width info in every cell of a table, stuff like that. I slap my pages together in Composer, then crack open Notepad to tidy the code up and cut out the superfluous bits.

It doesn't do anything fancy, but it's the best free webpage authoring program I have found.

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Another UltraEdit fan here, I'm afraid. I'm also quite evangelical when it comes to convincing people not to use Dreamweaver or, worse, Frontpage.

So if, HYPOTHETICALLY, a person wanted to find a cracked version of UltraEdit, and if, AGAIN - HYPOTHETICALLY, someone were able to her up with such a thing, that person could, HYPOTHETICALLY, let her know via email at the email address on her website, and would, HYPOTHETICALLY, earn her eternal gratitude.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

I use PHP 3 and make it churn out all the redundant html elements for me.

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What others say about boorite!

*cough*

*whistles innocently*

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

go to http//www.cnet.com

and download ANY html, shtml, xml, php editor or ANY macromedia software.

most of this is FREE (to try or totally...)

i like Koala HTML, some PHP stuff and even older versions of frontpage (!!!!)

anyway, you can also do it in Java-Script.

OK or FURTHER QUESTIONS ???

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