On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:23 PM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > There was a recent thread in tclug-jobs about web design that > reminded me this is a skill sorely lacking in my toolset. My > web design until now has been raw text files edited with emacs > (and I'm not even sure if emacs has a html-mode). > > I don't expect to produce high quality web sites, but I'd like > to do more than my hand coded html can achieve. What are good > tools? > > Even though this is tclug, I'm OS agnostic and if you have a > favorite mac/windows tool, throw it in the mix please. > > j > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > I have yet to find a WYSIWYG editor that writes decent code. Dreamweaver was probably the best of these tools, but I always felt like once I got something so far I ended up tearing apart the code by hand anyway. Since then, it's always been easier to look at templates for inspiration and hand code the HTML/CSS. As for editors, there are those that swear by Emacs or VI(M) for editing any type of code. I personally wish I was more adept in VIM for the bit of website coding I do. That said, I use Gedit in Gnome. On the surface it's a pretty basic editor but there are some great plugins that extend it just far enough to my liking. If I'm ever stuck in Windows-land I use Notepad++ for any text editing tasks. -- Donovan Niesen