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Best Web Authoring Application?

Posted by Cliff on from the beyond-text-editors dept.

NotHereOrThere asks: "I want to setup a small business web site and I'm trying to choose a web authoring application. I'm a software developer, so technical complexity doesn't scare me, but I've never developed for the web other than some very simple HTML pages. My main requirements are ease of use and presentation quality. What do Slashdot readers recommend? Any recommendations for a hosting service?"

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  1. Re:best tool I've ever used for web development by override11 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ghey Ghey. You dont sound elite when someone invariably sais 'Vim' or 'Use Notepad', you just sound like an elitist ass. Dreamweaver is great, lately I find myself using Eclipse IDE with the CFEclipse plugin, and I am loving it. With the proper plugins it does any language you want with code suggest, color coding, shrinking comments or code sections (I LOVE this part, and missed it from Homesite), and it runs nice on any machine I have loaded it on (did I mention its free?) The only downside to Eclipse vs Dreamweaver is that Eclipse doesnt integrate as well into a FTP, SSH, or RDS server like dreamweaver can. Otherwise, Eclipse can do all that AND a bag of potato chips!

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    No I didnt spell check this post...
  2. Re:Convert already by applef00 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I see a really good reason not to use it: It's overly complicated and incredibly bloated.