RedM Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I'm going to have serious crack at getting the redsupraregister.com up and running shortly. What software should I be using? I used to code html by hand using notepad and might still do so. I need something to create a decent start page as well. It'd be nice if the software was free as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 when you say free....do you mean legitimate free mate lol if not Dreamweaver is very good to get a basic website going and very easy for end user to use, as its a kind of point and click program they do a month trial off their website anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Notepad is fine but to save time with the tedium, dreamweaver is good (can always torrent a backup of it, or I may have a backup copy here...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 Free as in cut-down free version that are actually usable. Dreamweaver. I tried to get to grips with it, I really did. I ended up going back to notepad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Dreamweaver. I tried to get to grips with it, I really did. I ended up going back to notepad. Me too when I first tried Dreamweaver (few years ago now), it's worth sticking with it though. Especially useful when doing all the formatting properly with CSS etc. I've not got Dreamweaver 8 yet, I'll have to try and find someone to lend me a backup to try before I buy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 yes dreamweaver is a bit quirky but once you get used to it then it is great. Saves time when you just want to get something working quickly. I nearly always resort to editing by hand up some stage though, but it is good to get the basic page in place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 dreamweaver for all the html/php stuff etc and firefox for graphics i designed and built this site using them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Rendar Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 If you don't want the nasty bloatware of Dreamweaver and you're comfortable editing yout HTML and PHP by hand, then Textpad (from http://www.textpad.com) is a great tool. It takes care of syntax hilighting and formatting and supports several standard 'languages' (such as PHP, HTML, Javascript) straight out of the box. And if you want to code with anything more obscure, you can just download the syntax definition files from their website for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 If you don't want the nasty bloatware of Dreamweaver and you're comfortable editing yout HTML and PHP by hand, then Textpad (from http://www.textpad.com) is a great tool. It takes care of syntax hilighting and formatting and supports several standard 'languages' (such as PHP, HTML, Javascript) straight out of the box. And if you want to code with anything more obscure, you can just download the syntax definition files from their website for free. all due respect but i think building a website using text pad would be far to big a task. to create html pages using textpad a user has to have a more in depth knowledge of html/php and more ,not mentioning css and plenty of other things., im sure he realy needs a GUI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Rendar Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Agreed: for a nooby, a bloaty IDE is better. Hence why I said, "if you're comfortable editing yout HTML and PHP by hand..." Personally, I don't like Dreamweaver and I like Frontpage even less. But it's all subjective and depends on what you're used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 What about Visual Web Developer Express 2005? http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Textpad's ok, I prefer Notepad++ though. Dreamweaver 8 is a 50MB download, hardly bloaty Frontpage however, is and always has been, terrible. Dreamweaver these days creates nice clean compliant code, and there's often very little need to go in and tweak something by hand. Used to code everything by hand years ago, but these days I don't want to spend a whole day designing one page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 notepad is what i used for my uni project this year, also alot of .ASP code also implemented using notepad. I think it gives you a better understanding of the code if you actually type the html etc code in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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