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Best Web Development Tool

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  • 15-06-2007 2:25pm
    #1
    future_plans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    Was hoping for some advice here. I've aspirations to get back involved in some Web Development over the coming months. I did this before many moons ago in university and in my first job. However, since then I haven't gone near it.

    I'm just wondering what kind of tool would be best suited for me. I'm planning to do some small scale sites for businesses of relations etc. I nearly fell off my chair when I saw how much Dreamweaver costs. For the type of sites Im planning I doubt I would require the vast amount of features it provides.

    So any advice for a lower cost and probably better suited Web Development tool?

    Cheers all!


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    #2
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    ms visual web developer express
    it's free.
    uses asp.net and c#/vb.net


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    nikimere
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭nikimere


    NotePad is free :)
    Personally i recommend EditPlus - search of it on Google.
    It has good syntax highlighting and stuff.


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    #4
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    Notepad ++ on Windows (free)
    Textmate on Mac (free trial)
    Coda on Mac (free trial)
    NVU on Windows/Mac/Linux (free)

    A web authoring tool is only as good as the person behind it (or some **** like that), so if you want to learn...then get involved with CSS/HTML/Programming communities or buy some books.


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    #5
    heggie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭heggie


    coda is nice


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    #6
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    heggie wrote:
    coda is nice
    Aii, I had a mess about with it yesterday. The bundle is great but the text editor isn't as good as Textmate. Coda doesn't indent automatically as far as I recall. Still a wicked package for the price. FTP/Terminal/Text Editor/CSS Editor/Preview all built in.


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    #7
    the Guru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭the Guru


    pwd wrote:
    ms visual web developer express
    it's free.
    uses asp.net and c#/vb.net

    we actually developed the marketing disk for Microsoft, PM if you like and I can send you a copy.


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