Any handcoders here?

Am I the only one who likes to code my sites by hand and not use an editor?

I find DW, FP and everything else slows me down. I think SEbasic does it by hand, anyone else?

And if you do code by hand, why and why not use an editor?

 

I use a text editor for php and HTML.

 

What is it called, noppid? Wouldn't mind checking it out.

I am going to look that one up, Shawn.

 

I just do them on the web server (linux boxes) by hand. But, most of them look like it I will use TextPad as a text editor if I want to do something locally.

I started using FrontPage 97...what a POS that was. My programmer at the time (still is) yelled at me one day and I did not understand what the issue was until I looked at the code one day. It was all hand done after that.

 

I use ultraedit.

 

I've had the same FrontPage disaster, tried it out once, didn't like it.

Thanks noppid, think I've tried it out awhile back.

noppid, did you code those pages in your sigs? Nice and clean, just how I like em.

 

EditPlus is my backup. I'm cued up to switch. But I've been using UE like 4 years, old habits die hard. But I did get the UI's to look about identical. One more syntax highlight error and UE is gone.

 

EditPlus is the best! I've been using it for three years and it's never crashed on me.

EditPlus-4-EVA (TBH)!

 

Comments like that are going to push me over the edge.

I think a memorial service may be in order.

 

I like to do all my coding on Linux using Quanta+ or KWrite right on a test server so I can see results with an acutal web browser.

Have 2 machines set up side by side that I use.

 

I hand code everything. These days I use HTML-Kit for all of my HTML, PHP and PERL programming. I love the plug ins that you can get for it to speed things up a little.

 

I use Eclipse IDE. Works moderately ok with PHP and it's free.

 

Zend Studio and/or Notepad.

 

TextPad here.

 

Ultraedit; though I will pull out dreamweaver to assist in tables if need be.

 

Nope, notepad is about as high tech and fancy as I will get, but at least I know all that c*ap in the code is mine!! lol! No, I used FP for about 4 days, then had to edit one of the pages and oculd not believe how inflated the file was with useless MS rubbish which means nothing to anyone. I have brushed a few times with other editors since, but they all ned up doing not quite the right thing, so now I just stick to plain old boring NotePad - and take the blame/credit for the end result..?

 

I'm a hardcore Homesite+ fan since back when it was called Coldfusion Studio

never found another app that let you feel like you're actually editing a remote file like it does

instead of the standard: download file in one app, edit file in another, upload file in first app
it works like: open file, edit file, save file

only problem is you can't get it as a standalone app anymore, you have to buy the Macromedia Studio compilation and it's hidden away on the CD =\

 

I usually use vi or UltraEdit. I still resort to Dreamweaver occasionally though.