What program do you use for webdesign?

[Nick Fury]

VI, VIM, EMACS, XEMACS, the winSCP editor for last minute stuff, and notepad for when I can't get access to an editor with syntax coloring.

[LauraN]

I've never touched Dreamweaver.

Once upon a time I discovered that I had Front Page installed on my computer as part of the Microsoft Office package, so I decided to try it.

I HATED it and never opened it a second time. Sorry, I just don't like there being stuff in my code that I didn't write. Like all this superfluous font stuff and just...eh.

Noah (Impulse3D) tried to convert me to HTML-kit. The syntax highlighting is nifty, but I can live without it. And the FTP stuff is super convenient, but I don't like the way it previews.

Notepad all the way. =)

[kjohnson]

I use Internet Design Shop Gold - something that came free with my HP scanner. Very easy to use and make quick changes but I still make my own HTML code for almost everything except the layout. I haven't used Frontpage in a few years - used it once and didn't like it (DSG has all the same features). I'm working on getting a copy of Dreamweaver from the guy that used to do the website and now runs our server because the school doesn't have Dreamweaver - they use Frontpage.

[Alex Pelan]

Our team uses dreamweaver, although i'm a big proponent of notepad with ie/mozilla to preview. I tried frontpage a couple of years ago, and I must say I didn't like it. It had the same text editing problems and annoying autoformatting that microsoft word has.

[Nathan Pell]

I am an extreme novice at this, and since our school system bought a copy for every teacher I am using Dreamweaver. If fact, we have the whole suit so I use everything in the Macromedia suit. I really like Dreamweaver as I do a lot of dynamic pages and it makes connecting to the databased a lot easier for me.

Yippee!!

Nathan Pell

Quick question, why use anything else when you have a simple text editor like Notepad or SimpleText?

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

Quick question, why use anything else when you have a
simple text editor like Notepad or SimpleText?

I agree, I usually just use Notepad or Ultraedit (I use Ultraedit for coding that's not HTML usually because the color-coding makes it ALOT easier to work with when debugging and such) but yea... I think the best work can be done with just hand-coding. But then again, that's just me I'm not a fan of WYSIWYG.

[jonathan lall]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

Quick question, why use anything else when you have a simple text editor like Notepad or SimpleText?

You use something else because Notepad really doesn't make people 1337. Dreamweaver will check tags, spelling, validation, autocomplete, and highlight syntax. It will also manage your website hierarchy quite well through FTP or other means.

Homesite 5 and Photoshop

I started doing HTML with notepad in the beginning and I am able to make a site with it. I dislike Dreamweaver because of the code it generates, most of it is very sloppy and repetitive. I dont expect any better from any other WYSIWYG editor!

Homesite is good enough for my needs, its like notepad designed for HTML with wizards, highlighting, etc.

For Design, I normally "sketch" the page in Photoshop. Then I slice up the image. With sketching I'm able to "see" the site better since I'm a visual person. I highly recommend it.

[Joshua May]

Straight hardcoding with Notepad. However, when I started out, I used Frontpage 2000 to teach myself HTML and to work on design. I think though that I will try out ConTEXT.

[jonathan lall]

Originally Posted by plutonium83

Homesite 5 and Photoshop

I started doing HTML with notepad in the beginning and I am able to make a site with it. I dislike Dreamweaver because of the code it generates, most of it is very sloppy and repetitive. I dont expect any better from any other WYSIWYG editor!

Homesite is good enough for my needs, its like notepad designed for HTML with wizards, highlighting, etc.

For Design, I normally "sketch" the page in Photoshop. Then I slice up the image. With sketching I'm able to "see" the site better since I'm a visual person. I highly recommend it.

When I first started, I had tried Homesite. While I dislike WYSIWYG, I found that Dreamweaver, left in Coding Mode, works better than Homesite in general. After a brief Notepad phase, I realized that Dreamweaver used properly was far more efficient. It won't "generate" code if you don't use Design (WYSIWYG) Mode.

As for doing a design in Photoshop beforehand, I do no such thing. Aside from the fact that I'm not too crazy about Photoshop, I'm not particularly good at applying a bunch of filters to make 'art' for sites anyway. First I figure out what's going to be on the site, then I figure out the best way to present it, and then I start messing with CSS and images to make a layout.

[pludodog]

Vi here... Vim, actually. ::thanks god no one has mentioned emacs::

[Goobergunch]

We generally use Notepad.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by pludodog

Vi here... Vim, actually. ::thanks god no one has mentioned emacs::

Actually, someone did.


Anyone use Mozilla Composer or NVU (http://www.nvu.com)? I really like Mozilla Composer for throwing together a few pages quickly, because it makes it easy to use a combination wysiwyg and hand code editing, and the code that the wysiwyg editor doesn't suck.

[Zzyzx]

I'm not the Webmaster of our team, so I might have the wrong program, but I beleive that our team (492) uses a progam called ColdFusion. Whatever program we use, our website is still cool.