Best software for website design

[Train]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Roguestar

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: Roguestar
NOTEPAD

NOTEPAD++

Actually I'd like to change my choice to Notepad2. Just close enough to Notepad and only adding stuff like syntax highlighting and not don't-bother-learning-the-code autocompletion.

:roll:

Your e-peen just grew four inches. Way to kill your productivity though.

serioulsy, most of the time I use intellisense I know EXACTLY what I am looking for, but its a hell of a lot faster typing one or two letters and hitting return or tab versus 10 case sensitive letters and still leaving the possibility of an error because I accidentally transposed two letters or didnt hold down/release the shift key at the right time and got the case wrong on a letter.


While design view in any web design app gives me the creeps, you can't deny the productivity gains from precompile/syntax highlighting/jumping to definitions/ etc

Being 2 clicks away from setting up breakpoints and doing stack traces in VS 2008 has saved my ass so many times I couldnt imagine still having a job if I used something like notepad.

Dont get me wrong, I still whip out Notepad2 if I just want to jump right into a source file and change something and dont want to wait the extra 5 seconds for VS to boot up.

 

[Modelworks]

I was surprised to learn that the NY Times web site is done by hand.

"It?s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to ?hand code? everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results."

 

[trexpesto]

Plug for TextPad now that they mention it.
Jedit would probably run on linux as well as Windows.