Which web editor is good

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:58 pm

I am planning a website for computer music geeks to download wav samples and other such geekish files. I have been using Frontpage but I find it clumsy. What do people recomend as a good editor(good equals cheap and easy to use)

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:32 pm

This is the best Freeware HTML-Editor, I hope there is a english language version,though.

Look for Phase5.
http://ftp-uploader.de/ftp-download.php4

cheers

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:17 am

Dreamweaver...
(or any text editor

)

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:23 am

I really like Amaya:

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

It's open source and controlled by W3C (who define the HTML standards as well as lots of other webby stuff).

I guess it depends whether you know a bit of HTML and want to "write it yourself" or perhaps a graphical "WYSIWYG" Integrated Development Environment would be more suitable (e.g. Dreamweaver, Microsoft's Visual Interdev).

This is a nice tool that tidies up lots of "Microsoft Fluff" that gets generated e.g. when exporting a Word document as HTML:

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
(HTML Tidy)

Worth running over any HTML that you create.

There's always "Notepad" of course!

HTH,

Royston

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:00 am

I would suggest an old version of Dreamweaver, like version 4. The MX version is too expensive. It is easy to use and very powerful. HTML is a bit tedious when starting, so perhaps you want to go faster to what you are willing to achive with Macromedia Dreamweaver.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:01 am

I don't know about Amaya's editing capabilities but,unfortunately, as a browser it sucks.

A great (and totally FREE!) editor is http://www.crimsoneditor.com. When you turn to real programming, it doesn't leave you on trouble; it has syntax highlightning for more than 100 languages

Okay, it's not a wysiwyg editor.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:22 am

Well, Amaya isn't really a browser as such - it just gives one the opportunity of seeing a rendered version of the HTML you're editing in 'real-time'. As an 'all-in-one' HTML editor, I find it to be very useable.

Personally, I use Epsilon pretty much exclusively for all my editing (although not freeware, it is a very powerful and reasonably priced piece of software).

If I'm doing more 'advanced' Web-based work, I usually use Visual Interdev, serve it from IIS on the same machine, and view it using Mozilla.

See you Z-folk next Wednesday - I'm off on-site again for the next few days...(groan)

Good weekend, all

Royston