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Everyone using their fancy webpage designers (even though I too own them), I saw the heck with it; use good 'ol fashion Notepad! Yes, I just said notepad. I use it for everything (Even programming in C++/Perl). Also, I do recommend PHP. My site (Website) uses at least 75% PHP. PHP does wonders for you, and for all others who use it. It makes your web traveling journey splendid. So, in short, use PHP and be a l337 webdesigner, use Notepad! :P
Klassasin
This is what I was talking about earlier... For some reason, aspiring programmers think themselves more...leet (?) by using a straight editor. While I agree that it's important to know how the underlying code works, wouldn't it make more sense to use tools that cater to the specific language? I mean, you can open a can of soup with a jackknife, but I'd rather use a can opener...Quote:
Originally posted here by klassasin
Everyone using their fancy webpage designers (even though I too own them), I saw the heck with it; use good 'ol fashion Notepad! Yes, I just said notepad. I use it for everything (Even programming in C++/Perl). Also, I do recommend PHP. My site (Website) uses at least 75% PHP. PHP does wonders for you, and for all others who use it. It makes your web traveling journey splendid. So, in short, use PHP and be a l337 webdesigner, use Notepad! :P
Klassasin
I used to use notepad for all my stuff, too. Then I moved to EditPad...then Dreamweaver for HTML/PHP. I don't do my Java programming in notepad anymore...I use BlueJ or JEdit - they were made for that. They auto-tab. It's great.
The only editor I think is worthy of being called an "all purpose" is emacs. You can truly do anything in emacs (news, email, programming, bleh, bleh - the list goes on). Kudos to all who do that.
So you folks who want to impress people, continue to use your notepad for everything. For those of you who want to get as much done as possible in the shortest amount of time done in the best quality - use your IDE. More power to you.
I personaly prefer kate for the daily editing..
http://kate.kde.org/
It's the KDE Advanced Text Editor, with highliting, function collapsing [+] etc..
also has a buildin console emulator etc..
But for starting the layout I use Quanta.
http://quanta.sourceforge.net/
Quanta Plus is a web development tool for the K Desktop Environment. Quanta is designed for quick web development and is rapidly becoming a mature editor with a number of great features.
I couldn't agree more. Sure, say you use notepad and get props and hurrahs and applause from the people who do not do professional programming. However, those who do massive amounts of HTML work at least appreciate syntax highlighting, if not tab indention and line numbering. Why would those people be shaking their heads at you? Because it is the physics of how the human eye works, jumping from color to color, making it easier for the brain to process what it is seeing quickly. Notepad is in black and white, and with 1000+ lines of code per page, color highlighting makes finding areas of the code so much easier and instantanious.Quote:
Originally posted here by embro1001
This is what I was talking about earlier... For some reason, aspiring programmers think themselves more...leet (?) by using a straight editor. While I agree that it's important to know how the underlying code works, wouldn't it make more sense to use tools that cater to the specific language? I mean, you can open a can of soup with a jackknife, but I'd rather use a can opener...
Those who programming CGI or PHP also appreciate line numbering on their HTML programming tools because it allows for a quick "okay, now the error is online ___, where is it?"
Just like we no longer use wheels crafted out of stone, I feel programmers should advance in at least the areas we have learned to make programming more efficient. I'm not saying -don't- learn HTML. I'm not saying use editors that do the HTML for you. I am saying, code it by hand but do not limit your skill by a the limitations of a tool. Enjoy the ease of syntax highlighting, line numbering, and auto tab formatting (for cleaner code).
windows: ultraedit, dreamweaver (the hand coding side, not the automagic html point and click side)
linux: bluefish, emacs, gvim (vim)
Bluefish here :D, superb and powerfull editor for gnome, whereas quanta is merely built for kde.
Mason... no. IF it helps, I do use EditPad Pro/Lite for WebDev with PHP (color coding). I just hate Dreamweaver despite the fact that I have it. I also said Notepad is l337 because I'm bored... *yawns* Truly though, Notepad is all you need when developing a website. Going with what pooh sun tzu said, I agree that if you do make website professionally I would use a professional design program for easy reading, comprehension, and for previewing. For what I do though, Notepad/EditPad is all I need.
I have just started building a website and I have neen using Screem. Whenever I did any HTML coding before it was with notepad (before I moved to Linux). I will have to agree that having indention and code highlighting is a big plus and helps with errors quite a bit.
How about Flash building software? Is there any alternatives to Macromedia Flash MX out there? I tried Flash MX and loved it (my first flash creations that I played with are all over my website now), but sadly the trial ran out, and there's no way in heck I can afford it anytime soon. Just graduated so student discount is out of the question too...I've googled and asked around, but Macromedia is the only real flash software I've ever found (hey, that rhymed), which suprises me since there's almost always a decent freeware alternative to everything out there somewhere.
You guys know of anything cheaper/freeware?
there is one - iots no where near as good as flash but it generates the same kind of .swf files and is open source - can't remember name of it and i think when i stumbled across it the site hadn't been updated in like 6/12 months - (which is a good while ago) but will have a look for it when i get home
v_Ln
I'm not a big fan of web site builder software (too much bloat imo). I tend to do it all myself or with utilities I've written. Unless of course it's asp.net work which i do in vs.net 2k3.
Tools I primarily use are:
vs.net 2k3, notepad
vi, kdevelop