By vishalkhialani on
Hi,
I am looking for a html editor which should be as feature rich as dreamweaver.
I cannot afford dreamweaver as of now hence I am looking for an alternative.
Thank you for your suggestions,
Cheers,
Vishal
Hi,
I am looking for a html editor which should be as feature rich as dreamweaver.
I cannot afford dreamweaver as of now hence I am looking for an alternative.
Thank you for your suggestions,
Cheers,
Vishal
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IMHO, you don't need dreamweaver
IMHO, you don't need dreamweaver to build Drupal sites. Dreamweaver is nice for static sites, of which you create every single html tag. Drupal is different; the modules and the theme already produce html, so there is no need for a tool to create html yourself. Personally, I do most of my work with a good text editor: Notepad++. If you're looking for more functionality like auto formatting, tag completion and syntax checking, I recommend Aptana Studio.
marcvangend
Yes, I understand we don't need dreamweaver in drupal but i use dreamweaver to make my initial static look of the site which I then convert it to a drupal template thats why I have requested one.
Thank you, I will check out Aptana Studio.
redcrackle.com
You can use Dreamweaver for
You can use Dreamweaver for that, but in my experience, it's not practical.
Imagine writing your own html, complete with id's and classes. You also write css and adapt the css selectors to the html structure, id's and classnames you created yourself.
Next, when you have to turn that into a Drupal theme, you will find that Drupal adds it's own html structure, id's and classnames. This means that you will have to start making changes: either change the Drupal output to match the mockup you made earlier, or change the css selectors to match Drupal's html output. Either way, you're doing double work. It's just not efficient.
Personally, I prefer to build a working site first, without any theming. Then I use the Starterkit from the Zen theme (http://drupal.org/project/zen) to build my own custom theme. Drupal and Zen already output good and usable html, complete with lots of id's and classnames. Now I mainly have to add CSS, and sometimes tweak the html output a little.
That's my €0.02.
Which theme do you use for building the "working site"?
Which theme do you use for building the "working site" before you start theming with the Zen sub-theme?
Sometimes just garland,
Sometimes just garland, sometimes I create the Zen subtheme with only the layout.css so all regions are in place and sized correctly.
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I just moved from notepad++ to komodo edit (the basic free version) and it works great. I still use notepad++ for quick edits though.
NPP
+1 for Notepad++. It does have autocomplete features, but personally I have those off to keep NPP as snappy as possible. I even use it in Linux (under WINE). I use vi when i'm running in a shell.
I've used a few IDEs, but I find that they take longer to start up. Dreamweaver loves taking forever with file reads/writes, which gets really annoying. Newer versions are only but slightly better. I do, however, prefer an IDE when doing more XHTML/CSS coding. Of these, I liked Eclipse and Komodo. I didn't like how long Aptana takes to load, but once it is loaded, it is rather feature-heavy.
My next IDEs to try are Amaya and SeaMonkey... Their biggest appeals are that they are free and cross-platform.
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Chad Hester
SeaMonkey
Bah, didn't like it...
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Chad Hester
Eclipse and / or Mono Develop 2.0
Good Evening,
IDE stands for Integrated development environment that means the best tool to get your work done fast and efficiently.
I feel Eclipse does a very good job on this point and Mono Develop ide is very interesting for the future of drupal development
I am mentioning these two is the reason is the features and not to mention the scale of economics.
I read a report that applications are being developed more on mono now then java for linux !!! and everyone how eclipse is used for other technologies besides php.
Links for review:
http://monodevelop.com/
http://www.drupaldojo.com/taxonomy/term/168
Cheers,
Vishal Khialani
redcrackle.com
Kompozer
http://www.kompozer.net
It's similar to Dreamweaver but free. The latest version has split window (code/preview) like Dreamweaver. Less features though. Works with Linux, Max & Windows.
Komodo Edit
Komodo Edit is great. I recommend it.
bogeyman,
Web-Alley.Com