I want to get into making some website (LAMP, HTTP, CSS, JavaScript) and I am wondering what would be the best working enivronment, software that can be used. I was looking at Dreamweaver and some people actually recommend it, but I dont think it is that good. I am at something like this right now: Xampp Eclipse (with PHP and JavaScript); I know there are plugins etc, but I did not get to that yet... Chrome and IE Developer Tools (Notepad++) I just discovered the tools and these are very powerful (like executing a JavaScript code in real time line by line, watching the variables etc). Working with these tools can make a whole lot of a difference, if you know what I mean. Chrome is good for CSS also. I also heard Microsoft's Visual Studio Express few times, but I did not look at this one at all. I am just wondering what are the other programs / tools software that can be useful like that etc (again, I am talking about building dynamic websites only: Unix / Linux, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript). There are also good websites out there, like website optimization, keywords, traffic rankings etc, that can make a lot of a difference right from the start also... Thank you in advance for any info.
You talk about using LAMP, XAMP, and Unix but then turn around and talk about IE, Notepad++ and Visual Studio which are all Microsoft stuff. *nix is the best environment for anything but it's a professional operating system and you'll have to install it on a box and get used to it but it's much easier to get around and get things done. Windows is for amateurs but far less flexible and much harder to control and do things the best way.
I agree with you about Dreamweaver. I have an old copy, but I haven't installed it for a few computers back. I use a text editor to write the code and FireBug and FirePHP (and the Apache error log, running in Baretail) to debug it. Windows environment, since this is a Windows house (even the box Apache is running on for a lot of the sites).