• Tue, 9 Jun 1998

From: Katie Trame >mrkite@apci.net<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:33:32 -1000

I was just wondering, what you guys use to make your web pages? Do you use a HTML editor or just Notepad or something? And why?

I personally use Editpad, which is basically just Notepad which a few more features, like being able to have more than one file open at a time without having Notepad open more than once, and find/replace (which comes in handy if you ever have to change servers and you need to go through and change the links on your entries.

I used to use HotDogPro until about 8 months ago. I just like coding by hand, I guess. I figure what's the point in editors, because you don't really learn HTML that way.

From: Gabby Hon >raindog@iquest.net<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:43:06 -1000

GoLive Cyberstudio and PageSpinner. I used to do everything in BBEdit Lite until carpal tunnel syndrome got the better of me (shifting is hell on the hands) and i switched to a wysiwig editor. first pagemill, which was dreadful, and now GLCS. PageSpinner is an inbetween method for me right now, since I'm doing a lot of CSS and need more control over tags than GLCS 2.0 allows.

From: Doug Franklin >nilknarf@networksplus.net<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:53:04 -1000

I've been using HomeSite for the last year or so, really like it. It gives you help when you need it, otherwise it stands out of the way...

From: The Turtle >turtle@fred.net<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:57:09 -1000

I use Luckman's WebEdit Pro, which I chose after going through (literally) a dozen or more editors in late 1996. Prior to that, I edited almost everything with a straight text editor. I like WebEdit because it allows hands-on tag editing, the previewer is decent, it has wizards to do tedious stuff like basic frames and tables, and it puts absolutely nothing in my file that I don't want there, unlike things like FrontPage and the Netscape editor, which stick their own flag-waving crap in there, and other editors which put all sorts of extraneous crap in.

And, it's cheap.

From: IslandBoy >islandboy@friedtofu.com<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:09:55 -1000

I use a combination of Dreamweaver and Homesite, but I am starting to use HomeSite more but only for my diary page. Typically I use Dreamweaver for pretty much everything else. The only drawback is that Dreamweaver slows down with tables and a lot of text.

From: James Franssen >jamesf@efn.org<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:17:23 -1000

I use PICO, a unix editor. I do my pages directly on my providers' server. Tried HotDog, it was nice, but I prefer bare bones. I still like Gus's method better though, etching, etc.

From: Danny McGuffin >mcguffin@mcguffin.org<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:27:04 -1000

I tend to use a PICO editor sometimes, but typicaly it is the old reliable Notepad, sometimes word pad, nothing else, cut and paste, cut and paste. Nothing spectacular.

It basically breaks down to whatever you prefer. I mean nobody is going to care what your journal is written in. I mean I am not going to go to someones page and go "person doesn't know HTML and has to use Netscape Composer, I aint gonna read their journal."

From: Vindictu@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:28:30 -1000 I started out (and some of the still-there pages are from that era) with just plain ol' notepad and a copy of HTML for Dummies sitting at my side. I saw a lot of pages with the little "Made With Notepad" buttons on them like a Badge of Honor and thought that The Best People (tm) used no editors.

Then I got bored.

I started looking around, experimented with FrontPage and some other crap that made my pages look vaguely like everyone else's, and happened upon Aracnophilia. Downloaded it on a whim, and I've been using it since. I got it because of the CareWare concept behind it, and kept it because it's still essentially a souped-up notepad that is all user-settable and lets me do things a little quicker without killing my wrists with all the typing.

From: sarah >word@western.wave.ca<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:30:27 -1000

Started with the good ol' DOS text editor.

Graduated to Super NoteTab, a souped up notepad editor.

WYSWIG editors drive me bonkers.

But use what you feel is easiest and quickest to get the job done.

From: ChanceW1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:55:22 -1000

I use Microsoft Word, saving the documents as text files (I don't use any of the built-in HTML editing).

I like using a word processor because it lets me work closely with the HTML code (like notepad) but I can build templates and use them for repetitive pages (like daily journal entries). I wrote simple macros which help with some of the grunge work: text formatting, images, links, adding dates, and put these macros into a custom toolbar which I bring up whenever I'm working on a web page.

I've tried a number of HTML editors but haven't found one that I felt comfortable with. They either did too much and wouldn't let me code the page the way I wanted to or they did too little and simply weren't useful enough to pay for.

From: Samantha Marcelo >halcyon423@hotmail.com<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:48:41 -1000

I just use the Geocities Advanced HTML editor...

From: Al Schroeder >al.schroeder@nashville.com<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:22:34 -1000

Notepad. Although I did run the main journal page through Netscape Composer for a double check on the latest redo.--Al.

From: Isaac the Human Being >ischankl@umich.edu<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:52:28 -1000

BBEdit Lite. Solid text editor with excellent find and replace function and some helpful quirks.

... though I'd accept anything better if I knew of it. With BBEdit there's a little too much copy and paste and copy and paste and etc. Unfortunately I'm too poor and lazy to get myself anything that's not free and readily accessible.

From: Vindictu@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:58:15 -1000

Do a search on www.tucows.com for Aracnophilia. Free, good, and has a good message to go with a good product. Take a look.

From: Tony Tang >ttang@intergate.bc.ca<
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:59:42 -1000

Wooo!

Notepad all the way!!

Actually, I'm using a derivative (EditPad), but it's still a text editor.

I like playing with the HTML code stuff directly. Fancy GUI's actually scare me.

From: Julie R <baubo@eskimo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:19:05 -1000

I have been using AOLPress (which used to be called something else, but I don't remember what) for several years now, following its upgrades each time.

(Saying 'several years now' is kind of scary. I started doing HTML with Notepad, as most people did, in early 1995. I don't recall when the first version of AOLPress came out, but I believe it was late in '95.)

It's WYSIWYG, fairly flexible, and best of all...

...free. Freeware.

You can get it at http://www.aolpress.com/press/index.html

Does all sorts of stuff. Only drawback is that its default is to write files back to an AOL server site, but that's easily gone around.