| I find it amazing that so many people have mentioned Dreamweaver for an HTML editor. It seems like overkill to me. Do you Dreamweaver fans really use it for editing HTML?
I've used Dreamweaver (mind you this was an older version before Macromedia bought Coldfusion and started integrating development into Dreamweaver) and I found it extremely difficult and time consuming to use. Give me notepad any day I'd have it done in less than half the time with minimal frustration!
I have met so-called web developers who said they knew HTML, and later I realized that they didn't even know how to hand-code simple HTML. They had just used Dreamweaver to create HTML pages with the WYSIWYG editor and thought that was the same as knowing HTML. But the place we worked only had one copy of Dreamweaver - for the web designer, who it turned out, knew more HTML than this so-called web programmer. So I'm wondering if a similar confusion of terminology is happening here?
I'd like to hear more from the Dreamweaver fans about how they use it for HTML coding... are there advantages for you in workflow or something?
It's great to see so many people have mentioned Notepad++. I have used it and it is very good, I would have stuck with it if I didn't already know about Crimson Editor. But if you want to go open source, Notepad++ would have my vote as well.
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