What's your favorite HTML editor?

[pulpitfire]

well, i've tried HTML kit, the trial of DreamWeaver, 1stpage, coffecup, & others.  I like kit, especially because it's open source and they are always adding modules to it, plus it has good auto tidy & conversion to xhtml.  But i just can't find anything faster, easier, or more reasonbaly priced than SiteSpinner for setting down the general layout of a page.  Everything is wysiwyg, drag, drop, & resize, and it looks the same published as it does on the editor.  Plus it generates images with advanced shading, and even allows you to draw.  I wish it had more options for CSS control, and could publish in xhtml, but that's where you can just load it into one of the other programs to finish it off.  I've heard FrontPage is similar, but costs hundreds.  So what's your take?   

[Tim]

EditPlus

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

ColdFusion Studio and Homesite*


*before Macromedia knackered them

[zoki]

Edit Plus.

[Acf]

EditPlus

amen to that

[Parham]

acehtml pro 5

[[Unknown]]

I've never liked any particularly.  They either are weak, or try to take too much control.

-[Unknown]

[pulpitfire]

i don't really have a problem just using notepad, but man, there's no way you could whip out a basic layout as quickly as you can with SiteSpinner's drag, drop, and resize tables, shapes, pictures, text, code, & titles.  It's very powerful and simple for getting the initial structure of your page how you want it.  you can always go back in with notepad or another editor to finish off the CSS and stuff.

for the rest of you, what sells you on your favorite editor?  why is it the best, in your opinion?

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

for the rest of you, what sells you on your favorite editor?  why is it the best, in your opinion?

ColdFusion Studio and Homesite:
1) because its an editor... not a graphics program...  not an FTP client... not a "take control" type of app... not a coffee maker... an editor!.
2) it knows enough about the languages I code in to help me... without thinking it can do it with out me.
3) nice logical layout... folder, files and work area.
4) nicely integrated with a good HTML validator (CSE).
5) nicely integrated with a good CSS editor (TopStyle).
6) many user customizable settings.
7) code coloring

[Tim]

Edit Plus

because of the

FTP options
Color coding
Tag/code list that shows you if you screwed up by highlighting an unknown piece
Optional code packages
etc
etc

but mostly, the color coding

[bostasp]

I've used HTML Kit before, and found it alright, quite a sturdy thing to fall back on.

I tend to flick, a lot, between editors for html (and/or php), usually ConText, HTML kit, Dreamweaver and a few other ones that I've got lying around. Depends on how tired, lazy or intoxicated I am at the time.

[[Unknown]]

i don't really have a problem just using notepad, but man, there's no way you could whip out a basic layout as quickly as you can with SiteSpinner's drag, drop, and resize tables, shapes, pictures, text, code, & titles.  It's very powerful and simple for getting the initial structure of your page how you want it.  you can always go back in with notepad or another editor to finish off the CSS and stuff.

I've been described as "very quick" on several occasions... doing just exactly that.  I think using a "drag and plop" interface would not speed me up one bit.  Not when it should work in all browsers.  Not when you count maintenance.

-[Unknown]

[Kerux]

So what's your take?   

NotePad

[Tim]

I've been described as "very quick" on several occasions... doing just exactly that.  I think using a "drag and plop" interface would not speed me up one bit.  Not when it should work in all browsers.  Not when you count maintenance.

-[Unknown]

Dito,

I used to use WYSIWYG editors but I'm at least as fast, if not faster b doing it all "by hand". You also have more control over things...

[pulpitfire]

i don't really have a problem just using notepad, but man, there's no way you could whip out a basic layout as quickly as you can with SiteSpinner's drag, drop, and resize tables, shapes, pictures, text, code, & titles.  It's very powerful and simple for getting the initial structure of your page how you want it.  you can always go back in with notepad or another editor to finish off the CSS and stuff.

I've been described as "very quick" on several occasions... doing just exactly that.  I think using a "drag and plop" interface would not speed me up one bit.  Not when it should work in all browsers.  Not when you count maintenance.

-[Unknown]

thanks for all the good input, guys.  i always want to know how some other tool could help improve.

i like notepad too.  what dogs me, is all the back and forth, saving in one window, viewing in a browser, trying to place things exactly as you intended, pick a precise background or shading color, etc. SiteSpinner wraps everything in a div/span, then absolute positions it to pixel perfect placement.  But, you can still specify whether you want the elements or objects to resize with the page, and it just auto-calculates the exact percentages instead of pixels.  Even if i could type 100 wpm, and knew exactly what i wanted to do the first time, i don't know how i could place everything that precicely, that fast.  It's not a one-stop solves all, but just to get the basic layout, i haven't found anything faster yet.

[nave]

mostly i use textpad or paper and pencil. but i like frontpage to test in