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I'm an old fashioned guy... I've always used manual tools for webdesign, whether they be low tech pads of paper or the windows notepad. The biggest advance I ever made before in editor technology was when I was working as assistant webmaster for my highschool and the boy who was hired as webmaster introduced me to the program Ultraedit, which had three very impressive features for me: it had a tabbed interface so I could easily switch between multiple open files, it color coded my html to make it easier for me to read on the fly, and it had a button which would open a window to display a preview of the file as I was working on it, without needing to save a final copy.
As of last night, though, I have found an editor which I believe is so far superior to Ultraedit as to make it seem like I was still using the pad of paper all along. HTML-Kit, a free highly-featured editing program which is STILL a manual editor rather than any of the idiotic "What you see is what you possibly could get if you're VERY lucky but probably won't" editors on the market. So far my only complaint is that the name is a bit misleading, since it can edit so many more kinds of files than just html... and some of its features just leave me in awe, like letting me automatically preview files in multiple browsers AND at multiple resolutions, AND letting me preview files in internal browser windows for both IE AND Mozilla... plus so many plugins I haven't even begun to see everything it's capable of. This thing is a text editor on steroids AND crack! I love it!!! Plus I'm kinda feeling giddy because it makes me feel like I'm reaching a point where I'm really increasing my skills to the point that I require a tool which can keep up with me and better meet my current needs.
Wow, I can even specify GIMP as my image editing program for this... I love it! :)
As of last night, though, I have found an editor which I believe is so far superior to Ultraedit as to make it seem like I was still using the pad of paper all along. HTML-Kit, a free highly-featured editing program which is STILL a manual editor rather than any of the idiotic "What you see is what you possibly could get if you're VERY lucky but probably won't" editors on the market. So far my only complaint is that the name is a bit misleading, since it can edit so many more kinds of files than just html... and some of its features just leave me in awe, like letting me automatically preview files in multiple browsers AND at multiple resolutions, AND letting me preview files in internal browser windows for both IE AND Mozilla... plus so many plugins I haven't even begun to see everything it's capable of. This thing is a text editor on steroids AND crack! I love it!!! Plus I'm kinda feeling giddy because it makes me feel like I'm reaching a point where I'm really increasing my skills to the point that I require a tool which can keep up with me and better meet my current needs.
Wow, I can even specify GIMP as my image editing program for this... I love it! :)
