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The big list of HTML and code editors

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Well a few people have mentioned it so please post links to HTML/Code editors in this thread.

 

Suggested format:

 

Editor name

Web site link

Price

Brief description

  • 2 weeks later...

Editor name: Notepad ++

Web site link: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Price: Free Open Source

Brief description:

 

Notepad ++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

 

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

 

 

 

 

(From their site)

Editor Name: Gedit

Wesite Link: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/

Price: Open Source GNU/GPL

Description:

 

Gedit is the official text editor for the GNOME desktop environment (linux) but there are also versions available for windows and mac. Features include syntax highlighting for many languages, bracket matching, remote location editing and more.

Editor Name: PSPad

Wesite Link: http://www.pspad.com/

Price: Free (freeware)

Description:

Freeware editor which runs on Windows. Has highlighting, code explorer, bracket matching etc. for multiple languages.

  • 3 months later...

Editor: Komodo Edit 5

Source: http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

Price: Free (Freeware)

Description:

 

Komodo Edit supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django.

 

Advanced support for:

 

Browser-side languages: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML

Server-side languages: Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl

Web template languages: RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django

TextMate

http://macromates.com/

OSX Only

€39 ≈ $50

 

TextMate is not an IDE but by using its powerful snippets, macros, and unique scoping system, it can often provide features that even a language specific IDE lacks. It has enough project management features to keep most users happy, but is otherwise kept lightweight with a clean and minimalistic GUI.

 

  • Ability to Search and Replace in a Project
  • Auto-Indent for Common Actions Like Pasting Text
  • Auto-Pairing of Brackets and Other Characters
  • Clipboard History
  • Column Selections and Column Typing
  • Completion of Words from Current Document
  • CSS-like Selectors to Pinpoint the Scope of Actions and Settings
  • Declarative Language Grammars for Graceful Mixing and Hacking
  • Dynamic Outline for Working With Multiple Files
  • Expand Trigger Words to Code Blocks With Tab-able Placeholders
  • File Tabs when Working With Projects
  • Foldable Code Blocks
  • Function Pop-up for Quick Overview and Navigation
  • Plug-able Through Your Favorite Scripting Language
  • Recordable Macros With No Programming Required
  • Regular Expression Search and Replace (grep)
  • Run Shell Commands from Within a Document
  • Support for Darcs, Perforce, SVK, Git, and Subversion
  • Support for More Than 50 Languages
  • Switch Between Files in Projects With a Minimum of Key Strokes
  • Themable Syntax Highlight Colors
  • Visual Bookmarks to Jump Between Places in a File
  • Works As External Editor for (s)ftp Programs
  • Added functionality with Bundles
  • Works Together With Xcode and Can Build Xcode Projects

^^Thank you. It can Cost, if you want business license but apart from that its free

ah edit 5 not ide okay what is ide stand for?

TSW webcoder

TSW

$59.99

It has many features, It does JS, PHP, HTML, CSS and more. There are also other editors available from them.

 

Regards,

Junior

ah edit 5 not ide okay what is ide stand for?

 

Internal Design Editor i think....like dreamwevaer...not sure tho

  • 2 months later...

=] IDE = Integrated development environment.

 

I still use notepad... I tried all of these various HTML editors... meh. I <3 notepad

Try notepad++ its much better than notepad :) and its got like every coding language you can think of

  • 1 month later...

Editor name: Notepad ++

Web site link: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Price: Free Open Source

Brief description:

 

Notepad ++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

 

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

 

 

 

 

(From their site)

this one is my choice also

  • 4 months later...

Editor name: BlueFish

Web site link: bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Price: Free

Brief description: Bluefish is a powerful editor for web designers and programmers.

"Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites."

Editor name: Netbeans (PHP bundle)

Web site link: http://netbeans.org/

Price: Free

Brief description: I don't do static sites anymore, so everything I do has some PHP content. For more complex projects it's a godsend. For example, I can start typing a WordPress template function and have it autocompleted with a popup listing the arguments - 9 times out of 10 I don't have to look anything up in the Codex.

 

HTML and CSS support is good, with autoformatting, code folding and syntax highlighting plus the ability to save and insert code snippets.

 

Added bonuses: local/remote file sync via FTP, SVN support, too much to list. Go chck it out. It rocks.

Editor name: Webuilder 2010

Web site link: http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/

Price: € 35.85

Brief description: WeBuilder is revolutionary all-in-one web code editor for all your web document editing needs. Clean and convenient interface, quick startup, true flexibility and powerful features allow you to create and edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, SSI, Perl code faster and easier than ever, while integrated tools enable you to validate, reuse, navigate and deploy your code in an efficient and sophisticated manner.

Editor name: Netbeans (PHP bundle)

 

+1 - Netbeans is excellent.

  • 3 months later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Editor name: Sublime Text 2

Web site link: http://www.sublimetext.com/2

Price: 59$ (There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.)

Brief description: Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

 

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Editor name: Notepad ++

Web site link: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Price: Free Open Source

Brief description:

 

Notepad ++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

 

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

 

 

 

 

(From their site)

 

I know this will sound stupid but I couldn't figure out how to download Notepad++ on my mac.

Editor name: Sublime Text 2

Web site link: http://www.sublimetext.com/2

Price: 59$ (There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.)

Brief description: Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

 

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Came here to post this. Sublime text is easily the best ide I've ever seen. I'd buy it if it wasn't for the high price, just to support the developer. Also, that screenshot is from ST1, ST2 has a slightly nicer gui (better shaped tabs, etc)

  • 1 month later...

Gedit is brilliant for linux

 

i did use notepad++ for windows but after looking at sublime i think im gonna start using that has a really nice GUI

Edited by joshfolio

  • 1 month later...

Can anyone suggest WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) software(s) for web designing? I like them because they reduce the time and coding issues. I would be pleased to get one for free.

 

They also produce terrible websites with terrible buggy bloated code that rarely pass any form of validation and generally load slow.

Then please tell me about the software that professional web designers use. A complete list of all the software used by a professional. I wanna become a good web designer. I have learned HTML and CSS with some basics of JavaScript. Tell me what more is to be done. Step by step. Thanks for concern.

Reading through this topic will provide you with a list of programs the pro's use...

 

Alternatively if you are after a wysisyg program, perhaps you would be better starting a new topic :)

  • 6 months later...

Enerwings Software, it has a html editor and a great cms. Also it has a Client Center for easy administration of domains and hosting. Try it, just search Enerwings in Google. it's free.

I recently moved from textmate to sublime text, however "text wrangler" is a good MAC editor

 

Text Wrangler

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Free

 

TextWrangler is a…

General Purpose Text Editor

Programmer’s Text Editor

Unix And Server Administrator’s Tool

Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator

Good Mac OS Citizen

Powerfully Useful Tool

product developed in the best traditions of Bare Bones Software, with high performance, ease of use, a rich feature set, and the ability to read its own release notes.

  • 1 month later...

Editor name: CakePHP

Web site link: http://www.cakephp.org/

Price: Freeware (MIT license)

Brief description:

CakePHP: the rapid development php framework.

CakePHP makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code.

The things you need are built-in. Translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication, and much more are all built into one of the original PHP MVC frameworks.

No complicated XML or YAML files. Just setup your database and you're ready to bake.

Instead of having to plan where things go, CakePHP comes with a set of conventions to guide you in developing your application.

  • 2 months later...
  • 4 weeks later...

Editor Name: NuSphere PHPeD

URL: http://www.nusphere.net

Price: $200

Description:

NuSphere is provider of the best PHP Tools, the home of PhpED - state of the art PHP Editor.

Thousands of people use our tools including our PHP IDE with the leading debugging tool for PHP.

NEW MAJOR RELEASE: PhpED 8.0 - super fast PHP Editor/IDE featuring top notch PHP debugger, code insight, full support for Javascript, HTML 5, CSS3 is now shipping new features: WorkSets, SSH tunneling for Php Debugger and much more. PhpED 8.0 is PHP IDE for both front and backend developers.

i'll second sublime text. bugger it doesn't work on old macs (at work placement i have a non-intel, mac os 10.5.8 and have to use emacs :( )

  • 1 year later...

All right, I'll bite and wait for the flame grilling from those of you who hate WYSiWYG :pp

 

Editor Name: Opus Creator

URL: http://www.digitalworkshop.com/products/opus-creator.shtml

Price: £82.50 or $135

 

A fully WYSiWYG HTML5 and Flash editor for Windows. Offers freeform design and enhanced HTML5 slideshows, timelines, drag and drop, collision detection and shape tweening etc.

 

(Designed for designers - developers will want to wait for Opus Pro. Those of you who prefer to code by hand might still find this useful where you'd used Flash before but want to support iPad and Android).

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