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Ok - I'll fess-up....

...I have a fondness for FrontPage that goes as far back as before Vermeer Technologies was acquired by Microsoft (haven't you wondered what the "vti" extensions referred to? :blink: Now you do! ;) ), and I've used it for my main site for ages.

I've had a yen for scrapping the current site and using another Web/HTML Editor, specifically moving towards Dreamweaver. An email conversation with Chris Pirillo (of LockerGnome.com fame) has, in essence, smacked me in the head for sticking with FrontPage, so I have an even stronger impetus in re-working the entire site.

So, fellow Neowinians - What HTML Authoring software would you suggest that I migrate to? I don't care about retaining the current site's format & schema, so anything is pretty much open.

I know what you're thinking: USE NOTEPAD!! - Well, I've been there and done that ages ago, but with all that I have going on these days (18-month-old Son with Cystic Fibrosis, my own battle with Fibromyalgia & Degenerative Disc Disease and more than I dare to disclose here right now...) I don't have the time to manually create Web content - hence, my desire to move forward.

If I get decent responses to this inquiry, then I also might consider putting-up a poll consisting of the top nominations. I'm not against using a little Flash animation here and there, but I think that Flash is "so last-week" and very over-rated - but I'm open to suggestions.

Additionally: if you're a FrontPage user or a FrontPage fan, give me reasons why I should stick with FrontPage.

PLEASE: This is an honest enquiry, so I would appreciate it if smart-alec comments would be kept to yourselves.

Thanks!

--ScottKin

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PHP Designer 2006 - Lots of features! - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

Or

Scite - Very lightweight and no install needed (I use it on my flash drive) - http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDoc.html

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First, what I would recommend staying away from....

Adobe GoLive and Microsoft FrontPage. Both have a knack for making web development/design/coding a lot harder than it needs to be. They both, also, fatten up the coding with a bunch of useless **** along with horrible workflows and file management.

I would highly recommend something along the lines of AceHTML, PHP Designer or SCiTE if youre looking for something cheap/free.

But if youre willing to put some money into it, I would recommend Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver. You can make it as minimal or feature rich as you want it to be. Its got tabbed work space and the abiltiy to create projects if you want to keep everything managed. I mostly use it because of the tabbed workspace and the autocomplete...both make coding by hand much quicker. Or, of course, if youre into letting it do the coding for you, you can do that. I would recommend staying away from using its JavaScripting though, as it adds quite a bit of code that really isnt needed.

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  nitrox said:

First, what I would recommend staying away from....

Adobe GoLive and Microsoft FrontPage. Both have a knack for making web development/design/coding a lot harder than it needs to be. They both, also, fatten up the coding with a bunch of useless **** along with horrible workflows and file management.

I would highly recommend something along the lines of AceHTML, PHP Designer or SCiTE if youre looking for something cheap/free......

Totally agree.

If you need a WYSIWYG editor, i'll recomend

CoffeeCup HTML Editor

If you handcode, i recomend

TopStyle (What I use) :D

Style Master

or a the less expensive

HTMLPad 2006

About Frontpage, you can create great sites with it using the code mode, since the code hinting capabilities of FP2003 is quite good.

Good luck on your quest trying to find the right one (Y)

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