Whats the best web authoring software?

[exodus454]

Going to be launching my own photography website (intended to be an online portfolio) in awhile, and I need some decent web authoring software. I'm quite fluent in HTML, but I'd rather not have to write the entire thing manually.

I'm thinking of using either Frontpage (which I have now and am not a huge fan of), or something from Adobe or Macromedia. Can someone give me a suggestion on which program to use? I'm open to software made by other companies as well, and money really isn't an object.


Any help would be great. Thanks guys.

 

[BigPete]

I have always liked Dreamweaver.

 

[igowerf]

NVU is free. A lot of free web authoring software is listed in the freeware thread stickied at the top of this forum.

 

[MangoTBG]

By no means am I an expert developer. I have, however, tinkered with FP and Dreamweaver. I really really like DW. I, too, am not a fan of FrontPage. If you are looking for reassurance for going with DreamWeaver, let this be it.

 

[Atheus]

Notepad, or a programmer's text editor.

I find these automagic site builders are too limited, and they produce code that's hard to work with later when you might not have that particular tool.

 

[kukyfrope]

Don't ever ever use FrontPage to make a webpage. It codes the worst HTML-source coding I've ever had to deal with. Use Dreamweaver if you can or write your own.

 

[Markbnj]

Not an nVU fan here. It's got a lot of functionality, but it is buggy and _really_mungs up your source (they all do to some extent).

I use Visual Studio 2005.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Notepad, or a programmer's text editor.

I find these automagic site builders are too limited, and they produce code that's hard to work with later when you might not have that particular tool.

Notepad isn't that good for code since it doesn't support Unix or Mac line endings. I've had tons of annoying problems going between Mac and PC where the Mac seems to replace the \r with another \n. When it gets back to a PC, all the code is double spaced. After repeating this process a few times, the code is unreadable because of all the space. This happens because both the PC and Mac programmers refuse to get a good editor and just go with whatever is default on the computer. Of course, the PC programmer is too lazy to remove all the spaces. In vim, I think the /r characters are all replaced with a special char, which is annoying too.

I would definitely suggest a programmer's text editor.

 

[rh71]

Dreamweaver