Robert_Charlton - 2:29 am on Jul 26, 2001 (gmt 0)

HomeSite used to be my favorite editor, but from the time it got sold to Allaire on, its releases have been increasingingly buggy... and the 4.5 series is reported to have serious resource problems. You might want to lurk on the Allaire HomeSite users forum [forums.allaire.com] for a while and see what's posted, though lots of disgruntled users have given up and switched, so you may no longer see the kind of candid (and scathing) feedback that used to appear.

I'm a huge fan of NoteTab Pro, but not as a serious large project-managing website authoring tool. It can manage text pages pretty well, but not the rest of a website's resources. It is a great program, though, and I highly recommend it for general text editing and quick small html jobs. Several ex-HomeSite users who were also searching recommended it over Ultra-edit, though, for coding html.

I've been looking for a while and not really found a good HomeSite replacement. I'm not doing a huge amount of site authoring, but I keep worrying that a project will come up.

1stPage 2000 crashed my system enough that I stopped using it, and it took forever and a half to load.

HTML-Kit from chami.com is a nice freebie that I've played with and it's the best thing I've found so far. There is no documentation to speak of, though.

On the HomeSite forums, HotDog 6.0 also had the reputation of being a resource hog.

Last time I looked, the Arachnophilia website looked a little ragged, so I've hesitated putting time into the program. I'd love to hear more details about the software.

Different editors, as I understand it, have different strengths, depending on the kind of color coding you need and what you're coding. It would be great, since this thread is going, to get specific strengths and weaknesses of the html editors described a little bit more.