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What tool do you use to make webpages?

Sorry to say, but if you really want to do "Nice" things, and want to be compatible with all Browsers, don't use Dreamweaver.
Do you prefer instant soup to the one your grandma makes?

P.S. When I was still enduring a pc I used Homesite (Allaire) Unfortunately there is no equivalent for that on Mac. BBedit comes close, but will not auto complete taggs for you.
 
Elkef said:
P.S. When I was still enduring a pc I used Homesite (Allaire) Unfortunately there is no equivalent for that on Mac. BBedit comes close, but will not auto complete taggs for you.
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TextMate half does this - it won't autocomplete everything automatically, but you can program in the ones you want in addition to the default ones.

http://macromates.com/images/inline/snippets.gif

Also, I haven't tried it yet, but http://ian.ardes.com/phpcc/ looks like a handy addition to TextMate for PHP programming.
 
GoLive

I use Adobe GoLive. Coming from PC land where I got spoiled by Frontpage it was a bit of a transition at first but now I love it :p Works well with my other Creative Suite programs too. TextEdit is always an option as well.
 
I use Taco HTML edit (Free! Yay!), Photoshop and Illustrator. And for FTP, RBrowserLite.

I'm just about to take a look at XXE... Might replace Taco with it. Even just because it has a better name. And probably a better icon.
 
GoLive, since my background is in the print media (product packaging, brochures, direct mail, etc) this was easier than learning html. My programs are Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress for print. When we decided to get into web design we all agreed there was no way a text editor would do. As artist we see things different than coders do.
 
Could have sworn I replied to this thread

Anywho I use Dreamweaver, Photoshop, ImageReady, Flash combination. Hope to learn other methods as well such as CSS. (And I could have sworn my reply said something like that to)

But despite criticisms of Dreamweaver's FTP app, I works great for me.


Elkef said:
Sorry to say, but if you really want to do "Nice" things, and want to be compatible with all Browsers, don't use Dreamweaver.
Do you prefer instant soup to the one your grandma makes?
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I don't think businesses in a fast-paced world have time to wait for grandma's soup ;)

Could you give some examples what "Nice" things? :)
 
BBEDIT thats it. Learn the coding and style sheets and you will have total control over your site. I know to many people that develop sites and then when something goes wrong or they want to change something they dont know how because they cant change the source code.
 
BBEdit. Only BBEdit. hehe

Relitively cheap and it does a really good job. Real-time display of code is for sissies! I do all my PHP/HTML in it without problems.

Plus it makes a good general text eidting app for config files, etc.
 
TextWrangler occasionally, but mostly I use pico since my website is run off of Geeklog and I usually only have to go in and make minor fixes in the code.
 
FrontPage

ha ha! just kidding. i hate the thing...
im of the dreamweaver school.
after reading the post dealing with ps slicing versus css i must rethink my steps though...
when all else fails: basic text edit.
-feyd
 
Espnetboy3 said:
BBEDIT thats it. Learn the coding and style sheets and you will have total control over your site. I know to many people that develop sites and then when something goes wrong or they want to change something they dont know how because they cant change the source code.
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I tend to agree with this. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with using programs like Dreamweaver, but you should know and understand HTML/CSS on some level. I'm the opposite of most people. I've NEVER used Dreamweaver or other web building programs. I should probably learn, but it's much easier (to me) to be able to drum up a page at a moment's notice, using the default text editor of the whatever computer I'm using.
I don't claim to be close to perfect with HTML/CSS and 100% adherence to standards, but I strive to be close.

External CSS files are great. Like any type of OOP, you can make an external CSS file and use it to control the styles of all your pages. One change on the CSS file and all pages that use it change. It's a beautiful thing.
 
Whow nice veriaty hear, very interesting to see what tools you guys use!
 
Photoshop & ImageReady
TextWrangler or Notepad
Illustrator
Dreamweaver, had to learn this one in college but rarely use it now

I'd much rather write the HTML/CSS myself, it's how I learned and by the time I started learned Dreamweaver I'd been making pages for about 7 years. I was way to stuck in my ways to switch. For my occasional pages for family/friends and the occassional quick buck this seems to work best for me :)



allison.
 
GoLive CS. used to use dreamweaver. before that hotmetal, homesite, netobjects, probably a few others I've missed. And of course, a healthy dose of straight html editing.
 
imaging - PS 7.0

coding - HTML Face X (much better than taco)

with taco when you load the code onto a PC you get all this other scrambled code...at least I did. HTML Face X you don't, and it works great.
 
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