February 1, 20179 yr Fellas, I'm upgrading to a new laptop (running Windows 10 Pro) and I want to hear your suggestions for a WYSIWYG type visual editor that you use to compose your HTML/CSS/JavaScript and possibly server-side PHP? I've been using DreamWeaver CS5 for years, but besides being pretty "obtuse" and buggy in many ways (plus pretty much having a very limited support for HTM5/CSS3) Adobe now wants me to pay $20-a-month subscription for a new version besides what I already paid for their CS5! So, no thank you! So could anyone share your favorite HTML editor that you'd recommend?
February 1, 20179 yr http://www.xara.com/uk/web-designer/ is probably one of the better WYSIWYG's available now. https://www.w3.org/Amaya/ is showing it's age a bit, as are http://kompozer.net/ and http://www.seamonkey-project.org/. Unfortunately the days of WYSIWYG's are gone, and text editors are really needed for modern coding, https://www.webuilderapp.com/ is well worth a look and a good choice as it offers a ton of features out of the box - it's been my goto windows editor for years.
February 1, 20179 yr Author Good point. So what do you use instead of WYSIWYG? What IDE do you develop your client-side / front-end content in?
February 1, 20179 yr For code-editors, try: Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ Atom: https://atom.io/
February 1, 20179 yr Use an editor if you're serious, don't bother with a WYSIWYG editor. I'd echo Lyndsey's recommendation above, I use Visual Studio Code and it's amazing for frontend, it even has a JS debugger that can be used with Chrome. Atom and Sublime are nice if you want something a bit more stripped down, without the IDE features. It's all preference, though.
February 1, 20179 yr Author Oh, thanks. Very good suggestions. Just curious, is there a lot of differences between full (paid) version of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (well, besides the price itself)?
February 2, 20179 yr Oh, thanks. Very good suggestions. Just curious, is there a lot of differences between full (paid) version of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (well, besides the price itself)? VS Code is the open source project, Visual Studio is a full paid IDE, except it's mainly used for languages like C++ and Java. If you're doing frontend then VS Code is a much better solution, it was designed for building stuff on the modern web, and it has a large community providing free extensions that are really good. Other users on here also use Atom and Sublime and recommend those, so it's up to you which editor suits your workflow.
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