Evrsoft 1st Page 2000
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/
Microsoft Web Developer Express 2005 (free download)
http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php
From the folks that brought you Frontpage and Frontpage Express comes Microsoft's latest incarnation, Microsoft Web Developer Express. MWDE is a WSIWYG editior with an array of features ranging from integrated FTP deployment, code hints, and rich formatted text. MWDE also comes equipped with tools for validating your site on older browsers. Combined with both Microsoft's free SQL express and XML Notepad 2006, you'll have all of the necessary components to develop feature-rich websites with a higher productivity to time spent developing ratio than ever before.
Composer
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
Composer is an add on for Mozilla family browsers (Firefox, SeaMonkey et all)
Free - This product is aimed at the novice.
There are four modes Normal , Html tags Html source and preview.
It's fast it's lean it writes clean code. It lacks many features such as syntax highlighting scriplets etc etc. If you've never used a source code editor or you major goal is to write content quickly with only marginal scripting but having css integration, then this is your editor. However as your skills and requirements grow any of the above are would make more then suitable replacements.
and lastly:
Visual Studio 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx
To Quote a friends crit on this:
Website development software doesn't get much bigger than this so, first the bad points:
"It's big and bulky and if you want you want to make a change to some text on a web page, you might want to put 5 minutes aside depending on how you've got things set up. It also has a really annoying habit of adding inline styles - even when you tell you it not to. Sometimes I even end up copying code into Dreamweaver just to tidy it up and then copying back to Visual Studio. It's ftp client sucks as well. Also - it's very expensive compared to the others....
What are the good points then?
Well - there really isn't a development environment like it (Visual Web Developer was also mention earlier but Visual Studio does have more features even for web development). Visual Studio Intellisense is brilliant."
Clearly Visual Studio is geared towards developing .NET websites and windows applications so, if you're not happy working with asp.net or the languages used to program against the .NET framework - vb.net or c#, it might not be for you.
Support for XHTML is actually pretty good now (apart from the inline styles thing but that is mostly with tables and we dont use tables now do we?). The CSS editor is ok but still not as good as Dreamweaver's.
Where it really shines though is in building properly structured web applications using object oriented programming languages and fantastic support for database driven apps.
Originally posted by NatsiaThanks - will look into the Mozilla one - now called Sea Monkey. Hope it doesn't screw up my FF installation, but I'm sure they've designed around that.
Evrsoft 1st Page 2000
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/
Microsoft Web Developer Express 2005 (free download)
http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php
From the folks that brought you Frontpage and Frontpage Express comes Microsoft's latest incarnation, Microsoft Web Developer Express. MWDE is a WSIWYG editior with an array of features rangin ...[text shortened]... t oriented programming languages and fantastic support for database driven apps.
Originally posted by Evil Pawn 666It was with reference to another thread. I need to change it to match my current avatar. I was thinking of the view through binoculars with Angry Boy in one lens and Seitse in the other.
Att rhb: In your bio you state (hairy) You have really triggered my curiosity. Please elaborate. If the Hound had stated this, I would not be interested.