What HTML builder is best????

I was wondering what would be the best software to use to build a website, im pretty good at the HTML myself but sometimes you just want a program to build tables and stuff for you, i have Dreamweaver 2, is Dreamweaver MX any better and what about Go-live??????

p.s. anyone like that band CKY?

In the m$ environment I favor notepad. I like to do it all myself.

Cheers,
-D

I've been using HTML-Kit. I won't even pretend to be a good web designer (my page is only like 2% complete) :rolleyes: .

Anyway, HTML-kit is free and has tons of cool features.

I use Homesite 5, which has some useful automated features incl table building wizards. I find it provides a good compromise between hands on coding and being able to see what you're building, without the learning curve of Dreamweaver MX. But it's not free!

http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/

I have had great luck with BlueFish on the *NIX platform. It's very useful. I have also used Dreamweaver MX, but it tends to add junk code, which you need to clean up later, especially on server-side code (and it's boasted as a good server side editor, but I am not impressed).

Hope this helps

I stick with Textpad 4... it's basically an advanced version of Notepad... it does code highlighting so everything stands out nice and structured.. works for a few different languages.... very very nice. program...

Yep I can agree with Textpad 4, but if you want something a little more automated try the above suggestions.

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Originally posted here by dspeidel
In the m$ environment I favor notepad. I like to do it all myself.

Cheers,
-D

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Yep. When I started writing html I really wanted a program for help, but I forced myself to use notepad. It really is the best. You just have so much more control.

I like mx, it wirtes good HTML but crap java script. I have never used Dreamweaver 2 but I have used 5 and MX is much better than five.

SittingDuck

i think you should just use notepad cause i think its the best to do everything yourself and when you finished you can say you made all the way from scratch instead of using a prog....just my opinion

One option would be 1st page, really handy because you can just use buttons to insert tags, while still having control on the tags used. And my other option, since I am not a table fan, is using Vim with syntax highlight. Yup, it´s vi on steroids. Lovely little editor.. :) .

I use an editor called www publisher. You still have to know html to use it though, but it has many tags in menus at the top to make it quicker to code. It will even generate the code to do tables and frames.

-Stephenmg