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This might be a silly question. But doesn’t dreamweaver help you see the design side side by side which makes it easy to change designs, their elements, attributes, padding, borders and such?

When I work in Notepad++, I have to change code and then run in the browser which is a bit slow for me I think.I just used dreamweaver and I found the live view helpful to see why certain elements are acting weird. (like the firebug inspect option).

The problem I’ve always had with Dreamweaver is the quirky way it does everything (except maybe tables). Code, CSS, live preview, templates.

Coda’s 3 window panes is to die for. Code in one pane, CSS in another, live preview in the third. All on one screen. Awesome. Only the CSS function is quirky (compared to CSSEdit).

Coda’s 3 window panes is to die for. Code in one pane, CSS in another, live preview in the third.

Or you can just use multiple screens, and not be cramped at all.

Or you can just use multiple screens, and not be cramped at all.

Multiple screens cramps my money. And available desk space.

😉

Multiple screens cramps my money. And available desk space.

Secretly, I am just jealous that you have coda and I have to use multiple screens because Coda doesn’t exist for Windows. 😊

Secretly, I am just jealous that you have coda and I have to use multiple screens because Coda doesn’t exist for Windows.

Funny.

I once read, years ago, that BBEdit was a good reason for a Windows PC user to buy a Mac. That’s no longer the case. Both platforms have plenty of very competent text editors. Each religion gets you to the same place. I use BBEdit heavily because it’s familiar and the workflow is seamless. What Coda does well is that multiple window pane approach—perfect for code, CSS, HTML, live preview. Whoa. That’s nice. All Mac editors, save CSSEdit, don’t do CSS very well. Even CSSEdit has languished.

That said, I use an editor to set up and EE framework and basic CSS. From then on, much of my actual site editing and tweaking is in a browser window. By hand (I cheat and use snippets, though).

I’d probably consider Coda the perfect Mac editor if the CSS component was competitive with CSSEdit.

That’s true grrramps, there are a lot of choices out there. I just came across this article today in the CodeIgniter LinkedIn group about PHP IDEs and Editors: http://eyoosuf.tumblr.com/post/2135070935/best-php-ide-and-editors

I tend to program CSS right in the browser using the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug extensions. I find that it really speeds up development to see the styles applied as I code. Unfortunately, this has the downsides of no syntax highlighting, indentation, or codehinting. I’m not too worried about code hinting for CSS, but it would be nice if the editor in Web Developer Toolbar had the ability to indent. I generally copy the CSS over to DreamWeaver when I’m finished and have it auto format the code so that it is nice and readable for the next dev that comes along.

WeBuilder is nice as well and quite the Coda competitor…

From what I can see, WeBuilder looks to be a Windows app, no?

Yes it is only win only but really nice app.They advertise it way to low key for what it does.

I am curious to know how do you see the links on your text editor when you call links with EE using the EE tags?

I’m partial to UltraEdit.

I’m partial to UltraEdit.

Probably my second choice but it is a such a ‘text’ editor and I miss auto-completes and coloring schema…it is very bare looking and even makers of it admit not really made as ‘php/html/css’ editor.
Always loved Notepad++ for quick edits.

No love for VIM?

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No love for VIM?

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No love for VIM lol wow some flashbacks…