Notepad Baby!

[Trashed20]

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ i presume?

I'll have to check it out. Seems to have all the stuff i use in dreamweaver without all the bloat. I may have to switch Thanks!

[Michael Auchter]

Notepad? Bah!
phire.org
it isn't my team's site, but phire.org is mine.
it was coded entirely in vi, in a combination of php/html, with text file operations. although, it doesn't look complex on the outside, the backend is the bulk of the code. there is a link to it on the site if anyone needs a nice news posting script.

[iamnafets]

Nice. Yes, the backend for our site is amazingly complex, so far to the point that it's worthless.

[deltacoder1020]

Crimson Editor is a GREAT barebones-text editor, and the support of defining your own language syntax specifications can be nice too.

If you're using a Mac, I highly recommend (read: you really really really should) checking out SubEthaEdit, on www.codingmonkeys.de - not only is it a fast and slim text editor with syntax highlighting, it also allows you to use Rendezvous to have multiple people working in the same document at one time - this creates ample opportunities for some really interesting programming dynamics.

Oh, and you want to see hand-coding? Take a peek at the site I'm developing along with a friend at www.vectorray.com - it's not quite finished yet, but yes, every inch of that site was hand-coded, mostly in SubEthaEdit (okay, images are an exception, but they *were* self-done in Photoshop). Feel free to send comments on the site to webmaster@vectorray.com

[evulish]

Whoever said emacs.. eww I do all of my editing directly on my server so I use vi when I plan on doing a lot of work (with syntax hl'ing on, of course) or I use mcedit for simple fixes. I don't use an IDE for any type of programming I do.. mostly PHP, but still. The first two links in my sig are the sites I made.. nothing special. I'm more of a programming guy than a creative guy.. the PHP for my site is way more impressive (There's so much stuff on my site I don't link to.. forum, BBS, calendar, image gallery, shopping cart, a couple games)

[Phish32786]

Our website is just starting off and whatever but my buddy who did the design did it all in Dreamweaver. Not that is hardcore or anything but I think it came out nicely. Anyways I do all the little notes and blah blah blah in notepad. I think useing programs like Dreamweaver makes it real easy for people to learn HTML if your too lazy to pick up a book and read about it. Plus with PHP and mySQL you really can't use anything but a notepad or equivlent to edit/make those parts.

[Duke 13370]

As trashed said, i'm now the webmaster for our team, (along with Wally, but i don't think he registered here) i used to only use notepad, but after opening too many windows, i found VS.net was better. The only difference is it's tabbed, it doesn't do syntax hylighting (well, i could set it to, but i never have) or any other fancy stuff. I still use notepad if i have to just change a couple lines, but not too much.

[Jeremy_Mc]

I usually use metapad (google for 'metapad'). It handles Linux files with ease. No syntax highlighting, but after getting use to not having it, it's really distracting to use something like UltraPad...

If I'm on Linux (which isn't exactly a rare occurance...) then I usually use nano. It's quick, easy, and lacks any sort of complicated command structure. I like vi, but I'm WAYYYY to lazy to learn anything past the open and save commands.

[MichalSkiba]

Textpad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (vr. 4.0)

I use it for everything (except typing report, for that theres openoffice). For all you Polakz out there, theres a Polish version avalible.

I'm not sure about PHP and such, but it does automatic tabing and syntax/keyword highlighting for C/C++ files. Its got neat auto-tabbing that adjusts to however much you indented on the previous line. It has neat side bars and there are tabs that allow you to have multiple files open in one "IDE". Best of all, it absolutly free!!!!!!! (and theres a Polish translation!!!!)


Oh ya, after installing it, if you right click on a file, the option for opening it with textpad is in the main option bar (in XP). enjoy!

[Stephen Kowski]

bah I use VS.NET or Dreamweaver whatever the situation needs......if im making a house I'm not going to pound the nails in with my fist, im going to use a tool to make the job easier.

[iamnafets]

Excuse me, there is great satisfaction from building a handhammered house. Like the glory of "wow, he did that with that?!"

[Trashed20]

Originally Posted by iamnafets

Excuse me, there is great satisfaction from building a handhammered house. Like the glory of "wow, he did that with that?!"

And "That is one proud man with a bloody lump of flesh he used to call a hand"

[MissAbi]

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

Originally Posted by iamnafets

I would like to know how many other webmasters out there do their site design COMPLETELY in notepad. Yes, flash for flash and whatever for image editing but everything else notepad. Please post a link so I can see. I get great satisfaction seeing something pretty coming out of such a low level utility. Extra points if you use PHP or a server-side langauge and use a text file database instead of a wussy MySQL database.

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.

[D.Viddy]

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