web page editors

Post by **blakjack** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:21 am

need to edit html, asp and php with decent code colouring and formatting in something that isnt dreamweaver.

need to justify the $$ and I realise I'm not using most of dreamweaver's features, do most of my work in html anyway. plus its slow.

wysiwyg and live preview would be nice, but not necessary. ( i sometimes work with web-illiterate people who prefer the familiarity of wysiwyg )

have just tried nvu and namo web editor, the latter feels okay I guess but Im not sure yet.

so, what do you use/recommend?

Post by **R00k** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:24 am

If you're just looking for a text editor that has coloring and formatting, TextPad probably has support for html. If not, I'm sure you can download the package that gives it support.

I'm not sure what wysiwyg is (wizzywig, seems like I've heard of it), but you defintely won't have live preview, just straight text.

Post by **blakjack** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:31 am

what you see is what you get, its like editing a web page in word o_O but yeah ppl can associate with that much better than me flicking between browser/text editor when they ask for changes.

will check out textpad.

Post by **glossy** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:05 am

conTEXT is great also, it can colour syntax differently according to filetype (for example .php files get highlighted and everything like they should, with $variables etc. highlighting properly, and .html/.htm files get highlighted properly)

oh, and it's free

, but doesn't have wysiwyg but does have plenty of ability to hotkey to open it in default browser, or any of your variants (makes it handy, you can open in IE to fix IE bugs, then open in FireFox to fix those quirks from the same place)

edit: and where are you on irc negro?

Post by **blakjack** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:18 am

im at work

Post by **Dr.Gibbs** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:24 am

Dreamweaver.

Post by **glossy** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:00 am

blakjack wrote:im at work

peft !

see you when you get home

Post by **diego** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:08 am

vi and/or Proton/Phase5 (http://www.meybohm.de).
Both have Code-Highlighting with almost every language.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:55 am

I never use the wysiwyg view (mostly because it doesn't work very well with advanced stylesheets), but I use Dreamweaver anyways. I like the file browser, among other things.

Post by **U4EA** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:17 am

Penis of cow! I just had a hilariously collosal fall in the kitchen when a sonofabitch flying cockroach flew from underneath the toaster into my neck/ear area. I jerked backwards suddenly but a combination of smooth kitchen tiles and old slippers saw me running backwards in place (cartoon style) before falling flat on my ass. Ouch. I haven't fallen this hard since the last time I played soccer back in uni.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:37 am

Post by **PhoeniX** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:58 pm

Programmers notepad:

I used it whilst writing some bash scripts and it seems good. For serious php/html work I tend to use dreamweaver for easy, though.

http://www.pnotepad.org/

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:28 pm

I like http://www.crimsoneditor.com , although by now it's just personal preference. I imagine there's lots of better featured editors out there, but this works fine for me

Post by **denzii** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:03 pm

I prefer Dreamweaver myself

MX seems ok and I'm a noob.

Post by **denzii** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:03 pm

I know you don't want to use Dreamweaver, I actually did read your post.

I'm just saying.

I wish I had other alternatives.

Post by **XaNaDu** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:16 pm

http://www.textpad.com/

Post by **Foo** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:28 pm

TSW Webcoder - Free, WYSIWIG option. Very cluttered when you first install it but can be pared down to what you need.

Built in FTP, project management, syntax highlight, blah blah:

Post by **blakjack** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:42 am

cool i'll take a look at that one foo. if not, i've got both conTEXT and Textpad installed now and both look like suitable editors. thanks.