Re: Web Software to use? Beyond Press, FrontPage, Dreamweaver??

[Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com>]

At 10:44 AM 6/9/2000 -0500, John Prince wrote:

My advice is to not use *any* of these. Instead, buy yourself a book on HTML
("HTML 4.0 Unleashed" is a good start) and learn HTML. Then do it all in
Notepad.

I'm hoping you mean "...do it all in any generic text editor" and not 
literally to use Notepad. I use TextPad on Windows <http://www.textpad.com> 
and find it useful, mainly because of the HTML syntax colorization (adds to 
readability), balancing (closing brackets, parentheses, and stuff like 
that), and macro language. It also has links to HTML syntax-checking 
packages, which is especially useful when you're learning HTML.

On the Mac side, I use BBEdit <http://www.barebones.com>, which not only 
does all of that but also has an integrated HTML syntax checker, plus a lot 
of built-in automation for creating some common page elements.

None of these features will interfere with the "pure learning experience," 
I think, but they'll go a long way to helping you swim through code without 
losing productivity...

Hope this is useful for someone,
----->Mike