Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

I used some non-notepad things for my sites at first, but that I found that it was counterproductive when it came to minimizing file size and combining different text. Notepad is really useful just because it can do almost anything and it doesn't care, or know, when you use different languages in the same document. I have never used anything but notepad to write my non-HTML commands. I'm actually currently redesigning a website, in notepad, so that it runs mostly in the external JavaScripts, risky because some might not have Javascripts enabled, but there is a huge benefit because it makes it so that the files are only about 127 bytes for the entire page. (Reference a JavaScript at the beginning and another at the end and the entire page is constructed, minus the content.)

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Actually, Dreamweaver can do some mySQL and PHP for you, but most users wouldn't want to figure out how, or find it too limiting. Hand coding is the shizzle :)

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Oh, let's see... mostly dreamweaver, crimson editor, and visual studio.net 2003. Dreamweaver is very nice for doing rapid development work, building up forms and such. I absolutly hate using the php code that dreamweaver generates, unless I have to. It's just so ugly. The best thing I like about dreamweaver mx is you can switch between homesite and dreamweaver styles. There's also a large amount of custom developed plug in's for dreamweaver that make life alot easier. Why do the work when most of it has been done for you?

Anyhow, as for websites I've done... www.bane-online.com, www.ribcrackers.org, www.international3d.org. All in php with mysql backend. Unfortunaly, everything thing I've done in asp.net is on the corporate intranet, so I can't show that off. Cool stuff though...

Notepad + vi + PHP + My own database class = NRG site
 

I'm the webmaster for my team's website, and I code in Notepad only (wait - and sometimes I use vi when I'm using telnet... anyway...). Our site is:
http://nrg.chaosnet.org/

Extra points:
I use PHP.
I wrote my own database class to store/retrieve data, not MySQL.

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Please don't claim notepad when you use some kind of SH program. I design professional websites for companies and I do all of my ASP (VBScript), SQL, JavaScript, and CSS by hand in Dreamweavers code view. Any real web developer knows that anyone dumb enough to use straight notepad is just that, DUMB. So come on, you aren't impressing anyone by claiming notepad. Tell us what you really use. Oh yeah and by the way our site is:

http://www.codebend.net/robotics998/
http://www.codebend.net

Remember both of these sites were written in Dreamweaver's Code View and are entirely database driven. Thanks

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

I'm not sure who _you_ were aiming to impress by this post...I, too, design "professional websites" for companies, but I use a notepad-like editor (it just supports *nix formatted files).

Not to say using Dreamweaver is "dumb" but it IS to say some people don't need to be told what a string is by coloring it red and where the keywords are by making them blue. I also don't need to be able to generate code or use auto-complete. I'm comfortable enough to use a plain-text editor to type it out plain and simple.

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

The reason I don't code in notepad is it doesn't format the code. Dreamweaver, crimson editore, and studio.net all do that. Anyways, isn't the programmers motto program smarter, not harder? Why reinvent the wheel, when things have already been done and are available to you?

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

I only use notepad heh http://www.montvillecompclub.org our computer club website. Not full functional yet since it's new ^_^

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Is it really that hard to press tab? ;)

And I ask the same question to you...why use some fancy bloatware text editor when you can skim it down? I always thought programmers were all about efficiency, portability, and usability :) I don't see how if you get pampered by a SH program with 300 toolbars and keyboard shortcuts for everything (including "Ctrl+Shift+C for warm Cappucino") that you'll be able to survive in an environment without anything that fancy?

Don't attack me! :p I'm just posing a question.

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

I agree. In a sleeper web design class that I used to meet computer requirements, my teacher forced us to do some assignments in Microsoft Frontpage. I was a bit upset and dismayed over this, so I used Frontpage's nifty 'insert custom code' feature, and typed in my html there. Needless to say, Mrs. xxx didn't like that one bit..

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Personally, I can't stand front page... it doesn't allow me to customise stuff the way I want -- it inserts $@#$@#$@#$@# where I don't need it, same with Dreamweaver...

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

For my E100 class at U-M Dearborn, we're confined to notepad. Here is what I have so far: www.engin.umd.umich.edu/~abigayle

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Yeah I would really hate to be effiecient by using a "bloatware" application. Plus I'm not trying to impress you boners. Bye

Re: Notepad Baby!
 

Let me just say....

VI Forever!!!

:)

Really, it's hard to use at first, but once you get the hang of it, you can edit REALLY fast, and the syntax highlighting makes it easy to read.

I mean really... Notepad? What if my PHP code has an error on line 529?

How do you get to 529 quickly in notepad? I just hit :529[enter].

And yes, theres a Windows version.

So, if you ever have a few hours to spare, download it and try to learn it. In the long run, you may be glad that you did.

Or you may end up hating it a lot.

- Sharp
:wq