jamesgray_ww - 5:10 pm on Oct 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

What you need is most impotantly a good clear text editor with some useful features to help with the editing and formatting of your HTML. At the end of the day once you have mastered the language what you need is an efficient way to produce your code.

Dreamweaver/ Frontpage etc are all way to intrusive and try to be clever when it's really not needed.

There are plenty of good text editors out there so it may well just come down to a matter of preference.

Homesite would be my recommendation.

What I you should look for are:

1) Colour Coding :: Highlights your code (HTML) in a way such that comments, tables, form tags all stand out from normal text and makes coding much easier.

2) Tag editors :: These help you quickly pull together all elements of a particular tag. So activating the image editor allows you to select your image, add title and alt element and apply images maps quickly and all in one go.

3) Inbuilt FTP client :: This means that you can create, browse and upload your pages all from one application.

4) CSS :: Look for inbuilt style sheet editing. The benefits of this will become apparent once you become more proficient.

5) Others :: line numbering, file & folder browser, tabbed files, "quick links" editor toolbar (for quick formatting), lots of good varied search and replace features, link checker, colour picker.

Well, just mt thoughts on the matter anyway...