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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. Recommendations: by Southpaw018 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you willing to hand-code your pages? I recommend you do - it's the only way to ensure that your site is absolutely standards-compliant (get the Web Developer extension for Firefox. It's a big help). I use Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus) because I feel it's a nice, simple, effective editor.

    As for hosts, I highly, highly recommend Resiware (http://hosting.resiware.com/ Their prices can't be beat and their hosting is rock solid amazing. See the link in my sig for the lil site we have hosted with them now.

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  2. best tool I've ever used for web development by yagu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    vim (syntax on, syntax html)

  3. My Reccomendations by infernalC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hosting - canaca.ca
    - SSH, FTP, PHP, ASP, IMAP/POP/SMTP, 10 gigs bw, cheap

    Editing - emacs, tidy
    - no more powerful editor out there
    - you already said you weren't scared;
    we'll see if you should be :-)
    - use tidy to clean your markup

    Language
    - Do all you new pages in XHMTL 1.0 Strict and
    style them with CSS2.
    - Server-side script in PHP.
    - Avoid client-side scripts.

    Browser
    - Get Firefox.
    - Test in IE and Firefox.
    - VALIDATE!!! validator.w3.org

    - my 2 cents