Need an html editor for the Mac

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Need an html editor for the Mac

html editor for the mac

amythepoet

2:38 am on Mar 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Can you recommend an html editor for the mac please?

rfontaine

4:12 am on Mar 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yes, Use BBedit.

Your better off using a simple text editor for your coding.

Why? You ask?

Because if you learn how to code by hand you are going to be light years ahead of your "point and click" WYSIWYG editor gang. You are going to be able to ANYTHING that you want on a website.

I also recommend you learn a server side scripting language such as PHP or ASP. Combine that with a database and your hand coding and you have it made.

But of course the Front Page and DreamWeaver crowd are going to disagree. Don't believe them! They are talking without enough experience. Set yourself apart. Become a real programmer and you will understand what I am talking about.

Macguru

11:44 am on Mar 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

I beg to differ,

While I believe in hand coding for some situations, WYSIWYG editors can be big time savers in some others.

It all depends on what you do. For the Mac platform, I prefer GoLive over DreamWeaver. Dreamweaver for Mac is quite slow and unstable compared to his Windows cousin.

I agree that BBedit is bar none for hand coding and large batch jobs.

BjarneDM

2:06 pm on Mar 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

At present go for Maozilla 1.2.1 along with [cascades.mozdev.org...]

Mozilla has an in-built wysiwyg html-editor, and cascades expands on this with a css-editor.

The reason i don't recommend 1.3 is because of some serious mac-only bugs in installing mozilla-extensions and themes that are awaiting resolution and the eventual release of 1.3.1

mivox

10:54 pm on Mar 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

I personally use BBEdit and GoLive. Started out in GoLive, but over time I found myself spending more and more time in the code editing window, so I made BBEdit a major part of my workflow.

I still use GoLive for maintaining sites I built with it... but most "from scratch" designing I do now is almost exclusively BBEdit.

amythepoet

11:07 pm on Mar 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks every body, I think I will go with BBedit.

A :)

Brad

12:36 am on Apr 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

>>For the Mac platform, I prefer GoLive over DreamWeaver. Dreamweaver for Mac is quite slow and unstable compared to his Windows cousin.

Thank you very much for saying that. I have been procrastinating on buying either DW or GoLive for the Mac. It really helps me make the decision. :)

I tried BBEdit Lite and it is a nice little text editor. Is there anything specific about the full version that you like?

amythepoet

12:53 am on Apr 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

I am using BBEDIT now and I love it. The thing is, it is a demo version and expires in lititle under two weeks. I guess I will have to break down and buy it. But I feel it is easy to use and is worth it.

Amy

eboda

11:33 pm on Apr 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

Better late than never - but had to put in my reply. I find it easier to validate html in GoLive and BBEdit.

I think it comes down to whatever matches your ability, and what gets the job done. I like GoLive because of group project management features... Real plus!

Cheers,
eboda

Yidaki

4:12 pm on May 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

golive and bbedit is a good couple. I use golive to do the raw work (after i've done the general layout in photoshop). I just use golive to build the tables, frames or whatever. After this, i fine tune the pages using bbedit. BBedit is definteley worth to buy! It's shareware - i allways buy the shareware that safes me a lot of time and hassle. Again, worth to buy!

One important thing to mention: if you want to keep your code clean and without wasted code garbage, don't save your pages again from within golive. Your code WILL look like frontpage mess. Even with the newest versions of golive the code fragments of changed / added parts of your site will be messed!

After you're finished, your best validator will be the w3c.org official html validator. Golive and any other built in validator just validates your code following its own or modified standard - no true html x.y standard validation! w3c.org is up to date in means of html standards.

BTW: i never use the golive "site" feature. If your site gets so huge that you'll need a tool to organize your page, you'll better use a database solution. There are some really great db tools for the mac that are pretty easy to handle - sometimes even more easy to understand than golive. ;) However, using golive and bbedit it's a easy job to maintain event 200+ page sites without digging around with the confusing site organization feature. Your mac allready organizes a lot for you. ;)