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I'm wondering which web-page based program is the best for creating a simple
webpage which's purpose is to show the counter-strike source gaming clan.

I'm thinking about Dreamweaver and Flash. Do you guys have any better suggestions. I don't know how to start with a basic webpage.


r1k1 @shellsnet

the best editor is always a pure text editor supporting some syntax highliting. you will need to confirm the layout on IE, Mozilla and Opera anyway.
A basic webpage has a table head for the title/logo and 2 columns, one for the menu and one for the content.

i think you will find notepad++ more than you need, but simple enough to start with.

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

To start find a smple page and right click on it, select view source, with notepad++ as your defualt viewer.

I like Dreamweaver... It's easy to use, easy to update the pages and its template system make easy to change your entire system simply changing one file...
Or you can use VIM too... I like it too...

EditPlus is a nice syntax-highlighted text editor, and it has nice project features like in Dreamweaver and other more expensive IDEs.

Notepad is probably the best to start off with, or Winsyntax... If your want to go 'hardcore', try using Pico/Nano or Emacs

I love my textpad ... But for fast creation ... microsoft frontpage then I'll edit the rest in textpad ..

Notepad 4evah!

I'm seriouse...I use notepad for everything, no syntax highlighting, no auto-indenting, no nothing, I do it all myself

Talking about some text editors i can sugges my friends maded some editor basicly like some notepad but have many highlighters :-) http://gonix.ten.lt file called SEG ;-) Try it. I'm using it and like it. :-)

i like dreamweaver..

well, as I said, I'm a notepad person, but I've taken to liking Notepad+ lately

I use dreamweaver... The best if you ask me. You have code+design layout which is perfect...

You can use WYSIWYG editors like Frontpage or Dreamweaver and be ignorant for all your life. Also they aren't always WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Often they are optimized for Microsoft IE and that's bad.

If you want to do serious work, get a HTML source editor, one of the user-friendliest being Bluefish. Then learn how to centralize your work (one central CSS file instead of inline stylesheets in the HTML files themselves, and also one or a few central JavaScript files, if needed).

A side note: if you ever want to write documentations or tutorials, texinfo comes in handy. Texinfo is a markup language designed to be translated into other markup langauges. Create one texinfo file and translate it into a set of HTMLs, plaintext, DVI or even PDF. However, under Windows you would need cygwin for that.

Personally I use Emacs for almost anything related to text (coding, scripting, documenting, ...). It's really good.

geeker wrote:If your want to go 'hardcore', try using Pico/Nano or Emacs :-D

That's a very common prejudice. Pico and Nano are like Notepad in every way, with the only exception that they have other means of cutting/pasting text, and they have keyboard shortcuts rather than menus. But that's no problem for beginners as the most important shortcuts are listed at the bottom of the editor. Keyboard shortcuts are more handy anyway or do you still save files via menus? ;)

Emacs is not 'hardcore', it's just different. I've learned using it within two hours and it was worthy. It's really handy. It has advanced, customizable syntax highlighting, fully customizable indenting, fully customizable justification (even things like block justification in plain-text files), project management and a lot more.

lyenlawner wrote:i think you will find notepad++ more than you need, but simple enough to start with.

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

To start find a smple page and right click on it, select view source, with notepad++ as your defualt viewer.

I've contributed to this project in the past. It continues to develope rather nicely. I wish the core programmer knew a little more scuntilla. (Scuntilla is the folding text engine that powers notepad++) The guy is real nice, even though he's a Frenchie.

Ayukie wrote:I love my textpad ... But for fast creation ... microsoft frontpage then I'll edit the rest in textpad ..

Microsoft frontpage will lead you into the direction of WebDav publishing which I'm not a big fan of. Currently alot of the exploits floating around and nailing servers are WebDAV overflows like SEARCH or LOCK. It's getting annoying to administrate some of those machines.

geeker wrote:EditPlus is a nice syntax-highlighted text editor, and it has nice project features like in Dreamweaver and other more expensive IDEs.

Notepad is probably the best to start off with, or Winsyntax... If your want to go 'hardcore', try using Pico/Nano or Emacs

I always used programmers notepad because of the usage of tabs.
Atleast on windows i use it.
On linux i grab back to gedit. Pure and simple

Dreamweaver actualy got bad in the last editions.
I have used the trials of all of them and non of them satisfied my needs.
So i went back to my notepad variants