Good evening,

 

So far whenever i have designed a website & done some coding it's always been through either notepad on the pc or text wrangler on the mac & i've used a graphic editor like Photoshop.

 

However, especially that now designing for all the different mobile devices & that responsive design now plays an important role i am thinking of investing in Dreamweaver CS6 but will this really help me design better & more responsive sites with the tools it has to offer?

 

Regards,

Lee.

Absolutely not. If you're lucky enough to be on Macs, I'd highly, I mean highly, recommend Coda 2. Best code editor I've ever used - on Windows or Mac - and I've been saying that about Coda for years now. They're good developers, very good. Remember, Mac only though.

 

You can get a trial from their website, or buy it from the Mac App Store for £50. I bought it from the App store for the iCloud functionality - it's a limited time price by the way.

 

For Windows, my favourite to this day is Sublime Text 2. Other people here will be better for advice on Windows editors.

 

I would strongly urge you to avoid Dreamweaver. It's a huge waste of money. It's not a bad code editor, but the WYSIWYG generates some horrific code - and the Spry Javascript...eww. So when you start just using Dreamweaver as a code editor, you might as well be using Notepad++, which is free.

Edited July 11, 201214 yr by andyl

Absolutely not. If you're lucky enough to be on Macs, I'd highly, I mean highly, recommend Coda 2. Best code editor I've ever used - on Windows or Mac - and I've been saying that about Coda for years now. They're good developers, very good. Remember, Mac only though.

 

You can get a trial from their website, or buy it from the Mac App Store for £50. I bought it from the App store for the iCloud functionality - it's a limited time price by the way.

 

For Windows, my favourite to this day is Sublime Text 2. Other people here will be better for advice on Windows editors.

 

I would strongly urge you to avoid Dreamweaver. It's a huge waste of money. It's not a bad code editor, but the WYSIWYG generates some horrific code - and the Spry Javascript...eww. So when you start just using Dreamweaver as a code editor, you might as well be using Notepad++, which is free.

 

Thanks Andy,

 

I'll give these a try.

 

Regards,

Lee.

Thanks Andy,

 

I'll give these a try.

 

Regards,

Lee.

 

I use dreamweaver, and generally find it pretty useful. I like the ease of the Live View, which is pretty well matched to what you see in Firefox etc. Obviously you still need to regularly check all the browsers, but I find Live View pretty accurate.

 

I use it basically as a glorified text editor but it's what I'm used to and find I can code quickly on it (as long as you code in the code view and not on design view). Clearly it's far to expensive just to use as a code editor but I like it and would recommend it.

 

It is a bit of a beginners tool, but has all the features most other code editors have.

I use Dreamweaver solely as a code editor and only because it already came with my CS6 suite. The guys at work use Sublime Text 2 (on Windows and Mac) and the dude who uses it on the mac prefers it over coda and other options. Definitely recommended.

the dude who uses it on the mac prefers it over coda and other options.

Seriously? I love Sublime Text 2, as you can see, but it's a poor man's Coda if I'm honest. Coda's FTP and publishing system sells it for me.

 

Coda 2 especially!

Edited July 12, 201214 yr by andyl

Well dreamweaver has seriously worked for me....but mostly for maintain and organizing all the files and data, and i guess with trial and error in using all the functions it helped me css.

 

personally i would recommend.