Dreamweaver alternative?

nator

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Can you recommend a good opensource dreamweaver alternative?

My needs are code editing with solid preview/wysiwyg functionality

Thanks..
 


i remember trying kompozer a few years ago, it sucked so much i couldnt stand it
&nvu is the base code for kompozer if i'm not mistaken

gonna try kompozer now again, see if anything changed...
 
Not a dreamweaver alternative by a long shot but I recommend notepad++, photoshop, firefox and w3schools website. Trust me, you'll thank me after you have built a few sites.
 
nator said:
i remember trying kompozer a few years ago, it sucked so much i couldnt stand it
&nvu is the base code for kompozer if i'm not mistaken

gonna try kompozer now again, see if anything changed...
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Yeah, they do suck compared to Dreamweaver. That's the shitty part about trying to find free alternatives. They'll get the job done, but they're not the best. You could also look into using something like Netbeans.
 
gutterseo said:
Not a dreamweaver alternative by a long shot but I recommend notepad++, photoshop, firefox and w3schools website. Trust me, you'll thank me after you have built a few sites.
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if i were a coder, yeah

i'm not


anyway thanks guys, back to using those cracked copies of dw
 
gutterseo said:
Not a dreamweaver alternative by a long shot but I recommend notepad++, photoshop, firefox and w3schools website. Trust me, you'll thank me after you have built a few sites.
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^^

In the long run, you wouldn't be disappointed by using that advice. That's what I do and find it much easier to hand code things. You don't get that shitty diarrhea code that the WYSIWYG editors spit out by trying to visually design something.
 
AllBizNiz said:
^^

In the long run, you wouldn't be disappointed by using that advice. That's what I do and find it much easier to hand code things. You don't get that shitty diarrhea code that the WYSIWYG editors spit out by trying to visually design something.
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I use notepad++ for a lot of things now too, PHP in particular. Although, some of the autocomplete features are better in DW for certain things (CSS, HTML). Notepad++ for example will complete "font-family:" for you when you're typing it, but it won't bring up another dialog w/ font options (Verdana, Arial, Helvitica etc). Or, if you are typing in <img src=" DW will bring up a browse option to go to the path of the image you want to insert. Little things, but features that can really help speed things up IMHO.
 
Why notepad++? Netbeans FTW. It's debugging features alone would save you hours.
 
Rage9 said:
Why notepad++? Netbeans FTW. It's debugging features alone would save you hours.
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Yeah I don't really use windows but the op said he did. I like my Gedit with dark tango theme and regex plugin.
 
i say fuck finding a free alternative and just use Dreamweaver. Download the trial, crack it, and then block the adobe hosts file so it doesn't ever connect to their server and invalidate your fake obviously unable to register with the adobe servers installation.

You can disable Adobe CS4 Activation Check by editing your windows “hosts” file.
For that- open C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts with notepad and paste the following at the end:


127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
 
AllBizNiz said:
^^

In the long run, you wouldn't be disappointed by using that advice. That's what I do and find it much easier to hand code things. You don't get that shitty diarrhea code that the WYSIWYG editors spit out by trying to visually design something.
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DW does not do that much anymore. Just for like.. paragraphs. And you can turn it off if you want. Aaand it only does that if you edit stuff inside the WYSIWYG.
 
Couldn't agree more with hand coding. I learned 10 years ago by cleaning up all the garbage that Dreamweaver and FrontPage vomited up.

I think a fast hand coder can even build sites faster, let alone correctly, conforming, and easy to split up into php includes.

Another reason NOT to do WYSIWYG is that the learning curve is the same to hand-code.
 
Air2air said:
Couldn't agree more with hand coding. I learned 10 years ago by cleaning up all the garbage that Dreamweaver and FrontPage vomited up.

I think a fast hand coder can even build sites faster, let alone correctly, conforming, and easy to split up into php includes.

Another reason NOT to do WYSIWYG is that the learning curve is the same to hand-code.
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Even if you don't use the WYSIWYG there really is no reason not to use DW. It's great even if you just code everything by hand. Mostly because of the html/css suggestion box, which saves a LOT of time, and that it highlights where the code is broken. The built-in FTP is also a plus.
 
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