What do you use for web dev?
 

So.... I usually just use a text editor and crank out the HTML by hand, haha, but now I have a project that is actually going to require me to be artsy and make a spiffy website. I'll be doing the dev on a Windows box, but I could use Ubuntu.

I have a copy of Frontpage 2003 but the templates seem kind of dated.

Other ideas?

Thx

Depends on what I am doing. If I am modifying a design that was made with anything other then Dreamweaver, then a text editor.

If I am starting from scratch, then usually Adobe Dreamweaver.

Starting from scratch, I like to slice out a design in Photoshop then lay it all out in Dreamweaver.

For simple HTML, I just use frontPage. For "real" web application that talks to a database, I use eclipse.

As a freebie for creating informational webpages I use Mozilla's Seamonkey browser. Under the File menu there's an "Edit Page" option which is a pretty easy to use wysiwyg editor. You can also start with most any webpage out there as a starting point and tweak it enough to be your own.

My latest project was designed using Adobe / Macromedia Fireworks CS3, then I coded the templates / CSS by hand using a text editor SKedit. I then took them into Sharepoint Designer to create the masterpage templates.

Previously before SP Designer, I just sent to the development team and they came back with the results.

Overall I'm a believer that you can create "spiffy" sites, as you put it, without the need of a fancy design tool like Dreamweaver or Frontpage, depending upon the platform.

I find Fireworks the best at creating web graphics and Photoshop overkill, and not designed well for my workflow.

Make a layout either in Photoshop or Illustrator, slice it out in photoshop, put it together in dreamweaver, replace any elements with flash versions, and clean up the final code in Notepad

Depends on your budget.
For zero budget: Plenty of open source tools out there. Have to be a bit geeky to make them tick. Notepad, NVU, HTML TinyWordPress etc....

With a healthy budget: Go for Adobe's Web Premium CS4 Suite. Out of a package of 9 apps, at least 4 or 5 are web development relevant. My favorites are Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop...
Its easier to shell out $$$ than to learn how to use these tools efficiently and productively.

I was thinking of zero budget, and I'm plenty geeky. I'm just artistically challenged :-)

Not sure about the artsy part, but I do my web dev in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Pro. The express editions are free, and surprisingly powerful though @:-)

http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/

Of course, to really unlock the power you need a web server capable of serving ASP.NET 2.0 pages

I use TextMate for Mac to edit HTML/CSS, PHP, and many other languages (except Java, for which Eclipse wins because of its refactoring capabilities). TextMate is a great programmer's text editor and well worth the cost of a license. You can pair it with a file transfer client such as CyberDuck or Transmit to easily edit files directly on a server to which you have ssh access.

If you're on Windows, I read that the e text editor, which is a TextMate workalike, has recently gone open source.

0 budget, no problem.

http://alternativeto.net/

Enjoy!

Cool site,thanks :-)