etech-peter — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:42:30 +0000

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.

Megan — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:13:53 +0000

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.

The Webmistress — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:49:30 +0000

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!

Renegade — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:31:59 +0000

Yes, I also prefer a plain text editor but others like to use programs...

demonhale — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:25:11 +0000

I prefer text editors... An opinion anyways....

Renegade — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 03:22:59 +0000

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

matt_w — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:59:40 +0000

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