I recently came across an article comparing frontpage with other web authoring tools. I must confess I am almost ashamed to declare now that I use frontpage to do my designs, judging from how he condemned frontpage in its entirety. Since then I have been on the search for another simple tool, I have not found one. Now he seemed to be proved right, because on testing my designs on firefox I could not believe what I saw! Virtually all the cells are dislocated.
Can someone here assist to recommend at least 5 alternative web authoring tools to me; proven and tested with firefox and at the same time as simple as frontpage.Thank you
matt_w posted this at 01:59 — 24th November 2005.
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Tokunbo,
I don't know about 5! How about 2: Adobe Go Live and Macromedia Dreamweaver are both top-notch tools used broadly by industry professionals.
Or you can be brave, and use a text editor!
Cheers,
Matt
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Renegade posted this at 03:22 — 24th November 2005.
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Yes, I would recommend Macromedia Dreamweaver. If you'd like to go into the free, open source route, why don't you give Nvu a try? Brought to you by the same people who brought you Firefox
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demonhale posted this at 07:25 — 24th November 2005.
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I prefer text editors... An opinion anyways....
Renegade posted this at 07:31 — 24th November 2005.
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Yes, I also prefer a plain text editor but others like to use programs...
The Webmistress posted this at 08:49 — 24th November 2005.
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I too use Dreamweaver, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter what WYSIWYG or text editor you use you can still end up with a mess in any browser!
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Megan posted this at 14:13 — 24th November 2005.
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For a WYSIWYG Dreamweaver is by far the best. Nothing even touches it. If you're used to Adobe products you could try GoLive! But i haven't seen it for quite a few years so I have no idea what kind of code it's generating. Dreamweaver is most likely to create a solid, cross-browser compatible site. As always, though, you have to know what you're doing!
For souped up text editors, HTML-Kit is good, and I've also heard a lot of good things about NVU, which Renegade mentioned above. This does require you to get your fingers into the code but that's always a great learning experience.
At the bottom end of HTML editors are basic text editors like Ultra Edit and Text Pad. They are basically like Notepad with varying degrees of extra features like syntax highlighting and search/replace. You really have to know what you're doing to use edtiors like this.
Megan
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etech-peter posted this at 16:42 — 24th November 2005.
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Frontpage is good for people who are new to the web because of its simlicity and easy user interface or you may choose Notepad, this way you will understand the coding in a better way. Macromedia Dreamweaver is all of the advanced CSS support, and it can produce very clean coding. Adobe Photoshop CS2 is also nice as it has new range of interesting features, which enable you to create the high-end graphics for use in presentations, packaging, or promotional materials.
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