Need recommendation for a wysiwyg HTML editor

[vois2]

I'd like to ask my friends at Subsim.com for their preferred WYSIWYG editor HTML for designing web pages. I secured my site hosting and domain name, but wow -- when I started to study up on programs to create web pages, there are simply too many factors and too many products. OK, let's make this easy --- ask people you trust to pinpoint/narrow it down to a couple.

Thanks for any advice. VoiS2

[TLAM Strike]

I use Microsoft Front Page mainly because it came bundled with Microsoft office and I’ve always used that family of programs so its familiar to me.

[Onkel Neal]

I use Front Page also. I cannot compare it with Dreamweaver, I've never used Dreamweaver. I started out handcoding html in Notepad but that's way too slow for big websites. Bought FP in 99, upgraded several times along the way. It works ok. It adds some unnecessary tags but overall, does the job.

[vois2]

Neal & TLAM:

Thanks to you both. I value your opinions. It looks like I can get the Academic Version ("Complete Product") for less than $80.00 of the latest FrontPage release, which is FrontPage 2003.

One quick question. If I were to buy this Academic Version, would I be eligible to upgrade as Neal mentioned he has done several times? I figure there will be a FrontPage 2007 coming, surely.

Thanks again.

[kiwi_2005]

Notepad :yep:

[Drebbel]

If you are going to make a simpel website with couple of pages then FP will do, I started with that one as well.

But for larger websites other programms (like Dreamweaver) are som much better. The have tons of handy goodies, and also have good tools to manage the website.

Also remember that when more people are going to be working on the same website Frontpage is kind of useless.

[joea]

Notepad :yep:

For web design?

[GreyOctober]

Notepad :yep:

For web design?

Sure....its html code afterall, which is simply syntax text. Copy the code from a webpage if you like, save the file as htm/html and youll get the same result. Of course i wouldt reccomend one bit Notepad unless you have a serious ammount of time on your hands and you know html coding real good.

Vois2: If your aiming for a good looking website which uses CSS and whatnot id say go for Dreamweaver. I worked with it and its very, very capable. If not, then Frontpage is just as good.

Cheers!

[Sixpack]

Grey, I have been waiting 3 minutes now for the destroyer in your sigpic. What's keepingim ? :lol:

Anyway, I'm getting CMS based sites, so bye bye to good old html. I used Editplus shareware for years 4 my sites (oops forgot to buy ;) ).

[joea]

Anyway, I use Dreamweaver at work, great programme.

[retired1212]

I use PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/) to write PHP, Python and Perl/CGI code.
Just follow the W3C standard, and everything will appear fine on all browsers.

[GreyOctober]

Grey, I have been waiting 3 minutes now for the destroyer in your sigpic. What's keepingim ? :lol:

it takes a while...keep looking :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Wildcat]

dreamweaver is basically the industry standard. you can also try homesite or frontpage.

[Onkel Neal]

I love EditPlus! :up: Definitely worth $30. Tell them you love it too, pay for it ;)

[bradclark1]

Notepad = You still start your car with a handcrank too.

Homesite is excellent for handcoding and it has a few libraries that comes with it and also user made ones. WYSIWYG part isn't or wasn't very good.

Frontpage is good for doing your own thing and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. If you check the source view on more then a few sites you'll see they are done with FP.

Dreamweaver is for when you have work to do and you can pay for the best.

I play around with Komodo 3.5 myself.

Handcoding is good when you want to learn the various languages. The WYSIWYG programs are good when you really don't want to screw with it and you can just put it through the validator to make sure wierd tags aren't added.

[sonar732]

Something else that you need to take into consideration is the hosting company. They will have "requirements" for transferring the files. For instance, I've seen a few that only take Frontpage extensions.

If you want to learn basic hard-coding, go to W3 Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/).