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good HTML editor with coloring

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:46 pm
by Daisy Cutter
I need a good windows HTML editor that colors HTML, CSS and PHP.

Does anyone know of any?

Oh and it has to be free (unless dreamweaver has coloring, but I can get that if it does). Right now I use metapad, but my site's getting hard to manage without some visual clues. Thanks.

Re: good HTML editor with coloring

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:31 pm
by hawleyjr
Daisy Cutter wrote:Oh and it has to be free (unless dreamweaver has coloring, but I can get that if it does).
Dreamweaver has coloring.

View > Code View Options > Syntax Coloring

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:37 pm
by Daisy Cutter
thanks. I'll install that.

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 6:38 pm
by Daisy Cutter
hmm... I just got dreamweaver, and I thought that it had a "lite" mode but its so huge it eats up all my ram :roll:

are there any smaller editors? like notepad with a few toolbars, and highlighting. the syntax higlighting is key.

I tried NVU, a mod of the netscape editor but it was crappy too.

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 6:41 pm
by hawleyjr
Daisy Cutter wrote:I just got dreamweaver, and I thought that it had a "lite" mode but its so huge it eats up all my ram
What are your computer spec?

Dreamweaver isn't that big of a hog.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/stud ... ystemreqs/

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 11:18 pm
by feyd

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:16 pm
by Daisy Cutter
ive got a 1GHz pentium 3 and 256MB Ram. Not too fast, but dreamweaver has so many features its hard to get what I want done. For instance it pops up an error telling me how internet explorer will improperly render my border (dotted), which I guess nobody had told them that it will only render bad if it's set to 1px, 2px is fine.

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:19 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
uh.. it's telling you for a reason. beacuse it won't render right ;)

so instead of having to read up on compatible coding, sometimes it'll give you the needed info with no work on your part.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:34 pm
by fractalvibes
Check out EditPlus - I don't use anything else
(except VS.Net when needed).

http://www.editplus.com

fv

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:49 pm
by Breckenridge
Try using gvim a unix vi like for your windows system. Very nice

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~homecomputi ... /gvim.html

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:27 am
by Sema
TSW Webcoder 5 is freeware and have a lot of funktions (ftp, projekt, todolist) , and it dont use so much in spec“s.

http://www.tsware.net/

yet another

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:02 am
by phpScott
I was using first page 2000 for a while but the next release has been in development for over 3 years now with no sign of it coming to out any time soon, although it sounds real good.

I am currently using HTML toolkit as it was free and seems reasonable although I have only used it for about a week.
No GUI interface in either for drag and drop design all hard code baby.

http://www.evrsoft.com for 1st page 2000 (free)
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ for HTML tool kit (free)

although I do like edit plus and its ability to be so heavily modified, I'm just to cheap at the moment to pay the small liscence fee as well as spending most of mytime on linux now.

phpscott[/url]

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:56 am
by pickle
I live and die by Xemacs