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Notepad is so easy and i love it to pieces! I can make things scroll and move and...oh wait, everyone can do that...oops. Well, I've nearly made an entire site now in Notepad and I'm busy making two flahs intro's, one for my bands' site and one for my own!
I use CuteHTML, which is basically Notepad that color-codes your tags for easy editing.
My HTML skills are very poor, but I don't really have any desire to make flashy web designs. It works for me.
Notepad fer' lyfe.
I used notepad and flash in the past but that website sucked. I might try dreamweaver.
I don't make webpages because if I did they would suck real bad.
I use HTML and, possibly soon, PHP.
Those who use only notepad must enjoy pain. ;)
I prefer to use Dreamweaver for initial layouts because it cuts my development time in half at least. Then I edit the HTML by hand. I prefer Crimson Editor or Visual Studio for a couple of reasons.
1) Code coloring. Easy to see exactly where your code is, and if you're missing important items.
2) Visual Studio has the nice additional feature of autocomplete which is very handy in ASP and ASP.NET Programming.
Notepad only designed site: 20 hours to create
Dreamweaver/Visual Studio/Crimson Editor designed site: 5-10 hours, is fully XHTML compliant, and looks good too. ;)
The time thing is a big factor, one I can understand completely.
Personally, though, I can code a layout faster by hand than by doing it through an editor, and when it comes to pages with a lot of tabular data, a little PHP gets the job done in a fraction of the time it would normally take to either code it by hand or via editor.
I don't create webpages, but when one of mine(or one I have FTP access to) needs editting for something, I use Notepad. Dreamweaver is the devil.
Not so. Not so.Quote:
Originally Posted by RSL
Yeah, I did make that one. That was all hand coded, baby.
As can I, which is why 95% of what I do is hand coded. But sometimes it helps to do the initial layout in Dreamweaver when you are trying to get something to come out a certain way. Especially when dealing with an intricate layout with complex table structures. If the layout isn't complex, then Dreamweaver isn't necessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sepho
And I agree with the server-side scripting to save time. I use it quite heavily where necessary. ;)
-Notepad for CSS, PHP and quick updates
-Photoshop for graphics
-Flash MX for animation
-Dreamweaver as an editor, although I usually only use it when copy/pasting massive amounts of text
I'll be using Maya for 3D when I can justify dumping $2000+ on it. Anyone know of any decent 3D software (other than 3DSM)?
I go FrontPage crazy. Sometimes I have to clean up the code manually, but usually I just leave it messy. I'm a slob.