How many of you designed your site with FrontPage?

[briangumble]

How many of you designed your site with FrontPage?

[rnawky]

I use Front Page 2003 for html and Dreamweaver MX 2004 for php

[MGM]

you're kidding right?

I do all html and php by hand.... i hate frontpage >.<

never tried dreamweaver though

MGM out

[merk]

Ive always ended up going back to Homesite 5, it is just so good! :)

Ive tried Adobe Golive, which was excellent, but only if it didnt crash :|

Dreamweaver is also pretty decent, but i dont like the eye candy :(

[LeeCHeSSS]

Eek! Frontpage?!

Handcoding is the only way to go. Although Dreamweaver MX 2004 has taken a huge step towards staying clear of invalid HTML

[Floris]

Handcoding is the only way to go.
I disagree.
Handcoding most layouts for pages take quite some time, setting the basics through a gui program if not only to 'test' what works and not saves 50%+

[rnawky]

Frontpage 2003 is much better than previous versions. has anyone used it? It has a lot more features and other things

[MGM]

I disagree.
Handcoding most layouts for pages take quite some time, setting the basics through a gui program if not only to 'test' what works and not saves 50%+
I always reuse code.... it's pretty much the basis of all programming, and html/PHP isn't any different. Isn't one of the biggest rules in programming to always reuse code whenever neccesary?

Whenever I'm coming up with a new layout, I use an existing layout I've created before and work off that, making changes here and there, adding things there and here, and deleting when I don't need something.

This not only helps you to understand your own code better, but if you need to make a change in the future you know exactly where to look and what to do.

Although sometimes I do use Photoshop or other image editing programs to design my page then slice it up and work off that :p

MGM out

[Chris Gwynne]

I use Notepad and EditPlus.

I prefer to hand code all my work as I know exactly what I'm doing, if I'm going wrong etc. I only use the table button in EditPlus too, just to give the basic table tags. That's only to save time :p

[MrNase]

I use Notepad and EditPlus.

I prefer to hand code all my work as I know exactly what I'm doing, if I'm going wrong etc. I only use the table button in EditPlus too, just to give the basic table tags. That's only to save time :p Same for me. Using a WYSIWYG kind of software often makes the code unreadable and totally overloaded :(

Iam using Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com) for PHP and TopStyle Pro (http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp) for html.
Crimson Editor offers a syntax highlighter and macros and it allows you to remotely open a file (via ftp). nothing more, nothing less :)
TopStyle 3 is a great software... It validates your code (html, css, xhtml, xml and js) on the fly and tells you what browser may have problems with the code.

[Floris]

Notepad is horrible for line wrapping and functions and javascript.

[MrNase]

You keep telling handcoding is bad and you said notepad is horrible in some point.

So what can you recommend? ;)

[Dean C]

Frontpage!? You got to be kidding :p Handcoding in ultraedit all the way... :)

[Floris]

Handcoding is not bad, doing everything handcoded IS bad. It is time consuming.
Notepad is not bad, for simple file edits, but especially php and html files, javascript and other stuff that are bigger and require no line wrapping, etc, then I advice EditPlus, UltraEdit, HomeSite, or such.

I'd advice Dreamweaver as html editor over Frontpage for Dreamweaver ALMOST doesn't throw in its own code or markup order, etc.