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Posted in Website Content » Best Practices - Tuesday 25th September 2007 at 6:32PM

Kyle
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Its been a while since we had this post so I was wondering what people were using now-a-days for all there markup and coding needs.

I personally still use Dreamweaver, though I have switched from 8 to CS3. But, since I can't have Dreamweaver installed on every computer at school, I installed a new program called Notepad ++ on my flash drive. It comes in handy in my HTML class and my Programming Constructs class. I recommend it to anyone that wants a step up from windows notepad.

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Replied - Tuesday 25th September 2007 at 7:11PM [Post Link]

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Coda for Mac OS X. A close second is Textmate for Mac OS X.

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Replied - Tuesday 25th September 2007 at 7:21PM [Post Link]

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I'm a good ol' Dreamweaver and Photoshop guy. All CS3.

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Replied - Tuesday 25th September 2007 at 7:35PM [Post Link]

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I've always been big on using Dreamweaver 8's code view and only switching to design when I need to. I enjoy the flexibility of the editor, even though you can only get it when you're in code view.

I am, however, considering the possibility of using Notepad as I like coding in that too.

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Replied - Tuesday 25th September 2007 at 8:04PM [Post Link]

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[QUOTE] Alec said (25th September @ 18:21pm):

I'm a good ol' Dreamweaver and Photoshop guy. All CS3.



listen to this man.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 12:00AM [Post Link]

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[QUOTE] Will said (25th September @ 18:35pm):

I've always been big on using Dreamweaver 8's code view and only switching to design when I need to. I enjoy the flexibility of the editor, even though you can only get it when you're in code view.

I am, however, considering the possibility of using Notepad++ as I coding in that too.



Do you use Dreamweaver's built-in FTP? That's what I like about Coda - I don't think I'd be able to live without anymore.

I think you'll miss out on that if you use Notepad++.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 7:30AM [Post Link]

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I do use it, but it's just too slow.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 8:52AM [Post Link]

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I think CS3s FTP has improved slightly over Dreamweaver 8s. Give it a try.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 12:34PM [Post Link]

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[QUOTE] Brad said (25th September @ 23:00pm):

Do you use Dreamweaver's built-in FTP? That's what I like about Coda - I don't think I'd be able to live without anymore.

I think you'll miss out on that if you use Notepad++.



I use SmartFTP and I find it far better than Dreamweaver's built in FTP, and it pairs well with Notepad++.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 2:32PM [Post Link]

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[QUOTE] Kyle said (26th September @ 11:34am):

I use SmartFTP and I find it far better than Dreamweaver's built in FTP, and it pairs well with Notepad++.



Listen to this man.

except the notepad++ bit.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 3:36PM [Post Link]

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I use dreamweaver for coding, I've tried so many different editors but never really taken to any - and as shit as it may sound, I think its because I love dreamweaver's default colour coding. I am so used to it that I am sower to read code in any other colour scheme. I have tried changing colour schemes on other programs but realised that there's no point, I'd rather just use Dreamweaver.
I also use SmartFTP - can't fault it, except the License Reminder that opens every time you open it, telling you that you don't have to pay for it, so long as it's not for commercial use, or something along those lines.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 5:05PM [Post Link]

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[QUOTE] Joe said (26th September @ 14:36pm):

I use dreamweaver for coding, I've tried so many different editors but never really taken to any - and as shit as it may sound, I think its because I love dreamweaver's default colour coding. I am so used to it that I am sower to read code in any other colour scheme. I have tried changing colour schemes on other programs but realised that there's no point, I'd rather just use Dreamweaver.
I also use SmartFTP - can't fault it, except the License Reminder that opens every time you open it, telling you that you don't have to pay for it, so long as it's not for commercial use, or something along those lines.



YES. LISTEN TO THIS MAN.

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Replied - Wednesday 26th September 2007 at 9:35PM [Post Link]

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[QUOTE] Joe said (26th September @ 14:36pm):

I use dreamweaver for coding, I've tried so many different editors but never really taken to any - and as shit as it may sound, I think its because I love dreamweaver's default colour coding. I am so used to it that I am sower to read code in any other colour scheme. I have tried changing colour schemes on other programs but realised that there's no point, I'd rather just use Dreamweaver.
I also use SmartFTP - can't fault it, except the License Reminder that opens every time you open it, telling you that you don't have to pay for it, so long as it's not for commercial use, or something along those lines.



...PHP has its own syntax colour scheme (ever use the highlight function?), which most (of the good ones anyway, not sure what other ones you've tried) IDE's use. Not sure where you're getting the idea that Dreamweaver has its own special syntax colour scheme.

[QUOTE] Kyle said (26th September @ 11:34am):

I use SmartFTP and I find it far better than Dreamweaver's built in FTP, and it pairs well with Notepad .



How does it pair at all? Just wondering...

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Replied - Thursday 27th September 2007 at 11:36AM [Post Link]

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dreamweaver for the predictive css and highlighting. and yes, there are other editors which do it, but i am used to using dreamweaver ever since the tables layouts days.

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Replied - Thursday 27th September 2007 at 11:59AM [Post Link]

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I hate people who say "using predictive CSS means you don't know CSS!" because that's utter rubbish. It's there to jog your memory, and when you think about all the properties and values that you can have, it's easy to get a memory block somewhere when you least want it. There's a reason programs that have it are industry standard software, and there's a reason why programs that don't offer it aren't.

At the end of the day, you might be the one who reads your CSS revision sheet before you go to bed every night, but I have better things to do, like sleep.

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Replied - Thursday 27th September 2007 at 12:11PM [Post Link]

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it just makes typing it out faster.

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Replied - Saturday 8th March 2008 at 5:41PM [Post Link]

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Coda, CSSEdit, Photoshop (All the time!)

I very rarely use dreamweaver, it's UI is way too cluttered.

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Replied - Monday 21st April 2008 at 11:13AM [Post Link]

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Im addict to Dreamweaver & Photoshop

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