What do you use most to code?

Since I'm tied for first in my football pool this week and since a couple posts inspired me, and I start my new job tomorrow, I just thought I'd post this just for the heck of it. (don't mind me, I'm just happy today)

What do you use to write code for HTML/XHTML websites?

(Poll included above)

(My "Other" vote is HTML-kit)

I am so excited for you! I really hope your new job goes well, i am sure you make lots of new friends and learn some very interesting things, you have a lot of skills to offer so no doubt they are going to love you!

As for your little poll, as by now you all now I am a FP geek, I use it and tweak the code myself, other bits and peices I do in Wordpad

I use Dreamweaver, but I code entirely by hand, I don't use the WYSIWYG side of Dreamweaver, I have no idea of it's capabilities actually....lol.

So why do I use it then? Color coding, and the included Javascript, CSS, and HTML references. Without those I wouldn't have ever learned any of those languages, now i'm pretty good at it but for some things that I don't use often I have to refer back to those references so they are quite handy.

My 2nd place is Notepad, it's great for quick edits of files and is just simple and fast to use altogether.

I voted for other, being Context, it has a lot of different highlighting schemes, and I believe you can even add your own (so if you create a function or what not)

I'm more like lostinbeta,

I work with Dreamweaver if only for the sake of the file management and upload facilities (which really does help timewise), and css.

Occasionally I might also set up a table using Dreamweaver, but 95% of the time I delete it and format the table by code. Then I use Dreamweaver WYSIWYG again to click on the table cells, which finds the place in the code that I want to insert code for that particular cell, and so on...

I have to admit, I steered clear of Frontpage for no other reason than it being from Microsoft and have no experience with it. Is it worth giving a try over dreamweaver!?

It depends on how much you already know with Dreamweaver. Being MS software aside (someone had to make money from software) I dont have any hassles with it. Like any program you still need a fair amount of HTML knowledge so you can tweak things but generally it makes things a lot easier.

Sometimes I think it's how you started. I learned HTML in Notepad and Wordpad. I've tried about a half dozen WYSIWYG editors including Frontpage and Dreamweaver. The end result is I always go back to writing the code plain and simple. I have never yet been able to get them to do something like I want it. I do like the Flash stuff built into Dreamweaver, but that's about it.

For those who do like doing their stuff in text editors, I do recommend HTML-kit. It's open source and has some great features for validating and editing code including HTML Tidy -- and you just can't beat the price -$0.00

Info:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Download:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/
Plugins:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/plugins/

WYSIWYG is just for fun, I mean what else would something with such a weird name be used for other then fun (is it pronounced y-seye-wig?). I learned in geocites advanced editor, I never even used their template system. Then I moved to notepad, and now context. I have made some goofy pages in Dreamweaver, but all of my "real" projects are done the "real" way .

//Note the underlying humor, I am not an idiot

ATNO- I might try html-kit, does it manage to colorcode the text of several documents without being a massive memory hog?

I remember when I first started making websites back in 93' All I had was a text editor to make the pages, now I do it the easy way!! After all who the hell is really looking at your codes anyway? As long as the page loads fine and it looks right in browsers.

93? there was a www in 93? *checks history books*...

yep there sure was!

I also remember in the same year doing my very first "web cam" experience from Australia to America at my teachers house. We used a normal video camera and there were a billion cords all over the place.
The picture was rather pixelated and distorted, the sounds was rather *plum* but at the time it felt like we had just been the first people to land on the moon!

ah yes there were already 2.06 million internet hosts then, compared to the 23 only 20 years earlier. And then the 15 Million in 1996.

yeppers

b_heyer -- download it -- I guarantee you you'll be hooked in less than a half hour.

Colors for code....
Line numbers for editing.
HTML Tidy for validating and pointing out errors.

How about this? Convert your HTML 4.1 docs to XHTML in three clicks...not to mention the .asp .jsp .php support with added plugins.

I can also edit perl scripts, javascripts, template files, etc, etc...with zero issues. It has never crashed on me except when my dinosaur win98 ran out of system resources.

I think you'll love it.

Oh, did I mention that you can create your own plugins if you feel inclined?