Best Editior

I like UltraEdit, Visual Studio, and FP2003 - earlier versions of FP should be avoided. Dreamweaver does a lot of bloated code and IMHO. is difficult to get w3c standards compliant code out of.

TextArea is a pretty good nagware editor. A lot of people use HTML Kit which probably has to many add-on features as it seems to be a little sluggish,

Notepad is a very good EDITOR if you are going to edit single files and don't need/want syntax higlighting etc

Visual Studio (.Net) is a very good tool for editing complete sites. It has syntax highlighting(both HTML and ASP), search and replace functions (single/multiple/all files), pops up suggestions on methods and tags when you are writing, CSS editor, HTML design editor (), and everything else you need.. but it is quite expensive if you want a legal copy..

ASP.Net WebMatrix is also a good tool (and free). it's made for ASP.Net.. it has syntax highlighting for HTML and ASP.Net, but not ASP, but is better than Notepad. It aslo has a file browser on the left side and a good HTML design editor..

FrontPage should be avoided at all costs, at least earlier versions than 2003. I have not tried the newest version, but people has said it's better on code handling than the others..

Dreamweaver has support for everything and it can auto generate code for you(please avoid!!), but if you write everything yourself in the code editor, it's almost as good as VS.Net (I believe) and much cheaper


but if you want a free one, I'm not quite sure.. ASP.Net WebMatrix is the best I can think of..

I am completely anti WYSIWYG.  I only go for text editors, but with highlight features, auto indenters, just simple stuff.  When your making a website you want full control over every aspect on it and I dont want a WYSIWYG editor putting a can of worms in there for me!

I really like the built in ftp on UltraEdit. Also use it for JSP's, Pearl, and PHP, so it works out to be a pretty good all-around editor for me. - YMMV