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Hi everybody,
I have been using my lovely wordpad and Dreamweaver for years to develop websites but for as I fell in love with css-based design, I have begun to use less and less functionalities of dreamweaver and I was wondering what you would recommend as an alternative software...
I have already found vu.com which seems to be very good but if someone has another suggestion, that would be cool. -
I would recommend Topstyle, by far one of the best I've used.
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Is there a way to stop TopStyle from changing the focus to the integrating browsers while you type your CSS? It's driving me nuts. That's the reason I stopped using it.
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Yep! That is one of the css editor I have heard of but It was impossible to remember the name... yes it seems to be very powerful...
Does it allow to upload directly the files to a remote server?
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notepad++ is pretty good
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- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 16th 2006
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I use TopStyle - I like that it has CSS reference.
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Thank you all for the information... I will have a deeper look at the different solutions.
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- CommentAuthortimberford
- CommentTimeJan 16th 2006
you could always try topstyle lite out and see how you get on before switching to pro -
cross reference: SkillShare: HTML editor with CSS color recognition?
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Topstyle - its the best.
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TopyStyle is the best except for the focus jumping problem that is driving me nuts.
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What about this one? I didn't like it. It's more wyiswyg for designers. Some might http://www.westciv.com/style_master/index.html
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anything for mac? all these seem to be for windows
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for mac I've used
http://www.skti.org/skEdit.php
http://smultron.sourceforge.net/
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml
This one looks pretty neat
http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/
Here's also a good list from css duscuss:
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BBEdit! Best text editor ever.
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If you're not looking for a WYSIWYG, but an editor, then I'd definitely recommend PSPad.
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- CommentAuthordpelletier
- CommentTimeJan 18th 2006
SpookyET: I think that problem happens only with the Mozilla preview selected, and if not it has since been corrected in release 3.12. I havent had that problem for a long time, except still with the mozilla control. -
I use PSPad and it is very good and it is FREE.
You can download topstyle plugin too. check it ;) -
- CommentAuthorerikdiamond
- CommentTimeJan 30th 2006
ConTEXT is not too bad either.
Erik -
I use cssedit on the mac. I really like the program, but it is priced a little high for what you get. Basically, I just use it for the auto-completion, and the quick visual reference when searching for tags.
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i use top style and jedit. but i hate jedits css plug-in.
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Hi,
I have been testing the following software for the last two weeks:
- PSPad
- TopStyle
- StyleMaster
- Jedit
My conclusion is that Topstyle is the best software for CSS edition. It offers very efficient features in a well-organised work space. I really like the code colour display, the semi-assisted writing, the different panels, etc.
PSPad is my second choice because it is a light but cross-compatible code editor and it is running a light edition of topstyle.
The other software are not for me... I am not saying that they are bad but I did not find them really innovative and more efficient than the Topstyle.
So, thanks again to you all for your advices.
PS: Jedit, is somewhat cool but definitely not cute enough for me ;-) -
I am having a hard time finding a CSS/XHTML editor (for the Mac OS X) that I can use to preview my CSS/XHTML templates with in real time.
I loved Topstyle for Windows, and need something similar that would allow me to view or validate my CSS/XHTML layouts for all popular browsers (IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari).
Thanks. -
I'm a big fan of jEdit, mainly becuase of the FTP plugin. It makes it plenty simple to open stuff straight off the server and save it back to there. It has some nice features (few of which are really specific to there, most can be found in other places too), but it's still a little crunchy in the looks department.
I've been trying out one of the EasyEclipse releases (I've got the LAMP one) with a subversion plugin for a few days now. It works pretty well for stuff but not sure I like the way it forces you to organize everyhting into projects to be able to do things (sometimes I just want to open a random file to adjust) so I'm keeping jEdit on reserve too. -
- CommentAuthorarabian4ever
- CommentTimeMay 18th 2008
I have tried Web design company chicago to search for the best CSS Editor but never found one. -
if you want to modify an existing site you may want to use this site
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I do development as well as design; I prefer NetBeans among the free options. It has a great set of features for PHP/Java/html/xml/css/javascript, and a little css preview tool that is somewhat more than marginally useful. Notepad++ is nice too. I’m not sure what you’re looking for exactly in an editor, though. I really don’t recommend any editor that claims to be WYSIWYG; you’ve used Dreamweaver before so you must realize that there is no such thing as WYSIWYG on the web. You need to do your previewing in a proper browser. As far as editors that are not Dreamweaver but offer a preview, there’s a commercial app named Komodo you might check out, it has a full Webkit-based browser built in for preview which is more accurate and useful than the Dreamweaver preview tool. For doing quick tweaks to an existing layout, the Firefox web developer toolbar has a built-in css editor that will apply your changes as you type, it can be really handy but has a few flaws that stop it from being a complete development environment.
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- CommentAuthorAcreo Aeneas
- CommentTimeMay 12th 2009 edited
I second the advanced text editor, Notepad++.
It has better syntax highlighting than Dreamweaver and is much more lightweight. It may not have the pop-up "possible properties" list, but if you know your CSS well enough, this shouldn't be an issue.
I use Notepad++ on my Linux netbook when I want/need to edit/design a page but am not on my Windows machine.
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