what web authoring tools do you use

[Tommy]

I write my html by hand
so I just use editpad and photoshop for graphics

I am very curious as to what the rest of ya use

[HC-Majick]

i use dreamweaver for the majority of the coding on my websites, and do the final tweaking in notepad.
all my graphics work is done using photoshop.

[lordaron]

photoshop for graphics, dreamweaver mx for coding, wouldnt use anything else!:)

[Alphawolf]

Dreamweaver MX 2004
FireWorks MX 2004
Easy Thumbnails
http://www.tigercolor.com/
TopStylePro

These Folks (http://www.projectseven.com/books/foundationsmx/index.htm) have some excellent materials on making quality sites (good coding) while using practical CSS.

[Cleo]

Adobe GoLive for most everything involving doing page layout work.

ImageReady for doing web graphics and image processing.

BBEdit (http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml) for doing more complex code and text processing stuff.

iWatermark (http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iwatermark/) for batch watermarking of pics.

ABetterFinderRename (http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/) for doing batch renaming of files.

[Lemmy]

Dreamweaver & Photoshop.

[MrMaryLou]

Namo and text pad for me :)

[MadMax]

Dreamweaver for html and PSP 9.0 for graphics, always been a winning combo for me.

[cockNballs]

"Dreamweaver for html and PSP 9.0 for graphics"


Me too

except I haven't bought PSP 9 yet so I'm using 8

[Useless]

Adobe for graphics
Arles for thumbing and opitmization
ThumbsPlus for quick clean thumb tables
CuteHTML for editing
ReName for, well, renaming things.

I often sketch out my gallery layouts ahead of time. For this I use lined paper and a good #2 pencil. :D

[T Pat]

Cute HTML
Banner Maker Pro
Super JPG

[Ramster]

I do my html by hand too. Cut & paste from other pages at times.

PhotoShop or PaintShop for what little graphics I do.

Arles occassionally for thumbs. Jpeg Optimizer for image compression.

[Sean416]

I've been using PS to do my thumbs, but I think im going to follow in the foot steps of some of the other proggies posted in this thread. With photo shop I have to make a new action every time I want to resize the pics, so I usually just end up resizing all my thumbs to the same size. It would be nice if there was an easier way to switch it up..

[swedguy]

I use Homesite, but I do all HTML by hand. I like the tabs and preview in Homesite.
For thumbs and pic compression I use Thumbnailer by Smaller Animals.

[Cleo]

Originally posted by Sean416
It would be nice if there was an easier way to switch it up..
Make your droplets in ImageReady and then you can just double click the droplet and change things.

[Greenguy]

Originally posted by MrMaryLou
Namo and text pad for me :) Me too :)

I use Paint for my graphics :D

[swedguy]

Originally posted by Greenguy
I use Paint for my graphics :D That explains a thing or two :D

[CelticTiger]

Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Fireworks. I like notepad for really clean pages.

[Jim]

Acehtml is what I have been using for about 5 years now. I just could never get the hang of any wysiwyg editors.

[docholly]

I mostly use Tart and then i use notepad to tweak.

then i send it back to tart to fix after i screw up her tables.

[Tart]

Originally posted by docholly
I mostly use Tart and then i use notepad to tweak.

don't go telling everyone I'm USED |jester|

I use Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop, and Notetab light for the stuff I handcode.

[Steve]

Hi Tommy,

Dreamweaver MX and Editpad for hmtl works
Fireworks MX for graphics and photo work
Thumbnailer by SmallerAnimals for making thumbs

Steve

[Opti]

Usually make the layout in PS.. cut it up in Imageready... edit the html and setup basic table layouts in dreamweaver... then finish it in textpad.

Smaller Animals thumbnailer is my favourite handy utility

[Trev]

dreamweaverMX mostly now.... moving over from notepad. I spend a lot of time in the code view.
PS7 for graphics and editing/resizing pics
Thumbsplus for quick thumbs
renameit for renaming

[enoj]

Editplus for HTML and basic PHP scripts.

NuSphere PhpED for PHP projects.

FileZilla for all my FTP needs, and of course photoshop for image manipulation.

[f69j69b]

front page and psp 8

[Kezza]

Dreamweaver
Paintshop Pro
Smaller Animals
Markers Brain

They make a good team for me :D

[Linkster]

Notepad for html - although I have Namo and webcanvas
Xara, PS for graphics - but usually just pay somebody
Express Thumbnail for doing large batches of image pages and thumbs
Batch Thumbs for smaller jobs (but not thumbnailing-it sucks) like renaming
Xat Image and JPG optimizers

Looking at a small script now that can generate 30,000 pages a minute based on google searches - just kidding :)

[T Pat]

Originally posted by Linkster

Looking at a small script now that can generate 30,000 pages a minute based on google searches - just kidding :)

|shake| Good one Linkster I said "Fuck" so loud halfway though that sentence that the dog woke up barking and the little lady came running from downstairs to see if everything was ok |jester|

[GeorgeTH]

uh-oh - at first I thought I had to be embarrassed for my old-fashioned tools, but then I found more notepad/editpad than I'd ever expected (in 2004) - here's my list:

HotDog Pro 3 (from 1996 or so) - text based with colored tags = the only real difference to notepad - LOL!
It's a bit like the great freeware editor Arachnophilia.

PaintShop Pro 7 for most graphics
Paintshop Pro 5 for screen captures and hand-made thumbs (5 is slimmer and 7 adds a little feathering along edges)
ThumbsPlus 4 for image sorting, thumbnail tables, and batch renaming
Some VB scripts to get tables from ThumbsPlus adjusted to my liking and inserted into templates

I have Macromedia MX on my disc, but never found the time to give it a good try...

[murray]

Notepade/Homesite for html
UltraEdit for coding
Photoshop CS/Image Ready
Thumbsplus

[Fonz]

Homesite 5.0 for HTML and PHP
Photoshop for graphs and thumbs
Super Jpeg for resizing my big images
Topstyle Lite for css

all of that runs on a commodore 64 updated with a "Final Cartridge 6" :D

[Mishi]

UltraEdit for HTML and PHP
ThumbsPlus for quickie thumbs
PhotoShop for graphics
Arles sometimes, but probably not as much as I should
venturi for all other grunt work ;)

[GunnCat]

I use Dreamweaver, and EditPlus for code, photoshop for graphics and SuperJPG for thumbs and image resizing.

[GunnCat]

Originally posted by Fonz
Homesite 5.0 for HTML and PHP
Photoshop for graphs and thumbs
Super Jpeg for resizing my big images
Topstyle Lite for css

all of that runs on a commodore 64 updated with a "Final Cartridge 6" :D

Wow Fonz you use SuperJPG. Don't know anyone else that does. What an excellent program. I love the batch feature for thumbs and renaming my files. Did you hear they closed down?

[Tommy]

I use superjpeg for batch compressing and resizing and making thumbs
they closed down :-( .. wow

[cockNballs]

"Paintshop Pro 5 for screen captures and hand-made thumbs"

I still use PSP 5 as well for somethings too

[Sean416]

Originally posted by Cleo
Make your droplets in ImageReady and then you can just double click the droplet and change things.

Thanks. :)
I'm not too familiar with droplets, but I'm gonna have to look into that.

[GunnCat]

Originally posted by Tommy
I use superjpeg for batch compressing and resizing and making thumbs
they closed down :-( .. wow

Yah bro kind of sucks. Of course the software hasn't changed in 5 years anyways |jester|

[Nige]

UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/), I've been using it since around 1997.

[Cleo]

Originally posted by Sean416
Thanks. :)
I'm not too familiar with droplets, but I'm gonna have to look into that.
ImageReady --> Action Pallet --> New Action --> Record. Then do whatever it is that you would like your droplet to do. Stop recording and then choose Create Droplet and save it someplace. Now you can just drag and drop files onto the droplet for batch processing. If you double click the droplet it will open in ImageReady where you can edit many of its settings and for ones that you can't instead drag and drop stuff from your History pallet into the droplet window.

[tiny]

cutehtml
namo for making tables(can't stand default paragraph setting or I'd use it more)
Superjpg for thumbs
Compupic for batch resizing(tanx GG)
nutscape composer old ver

[R0ss]

TextPad for html/php - colored tags, multifile editing and lots of other cool text-related stuff;
ACDSee for batch resizing/renaming, video snapshots extraction, and for just local image browsing;
Dreamweaver for complex layouts
Photoshop & fireworks for all kinds of graphics

[Netpiddler]

Wow Fonz, have you been peeking in my box?

Yep that is pretty much my setup.

HomeSite
PhotoShop 7
ImageReady
SuperJPG
SmartFTP
Topstyle Lite for CSS

I will generally use SuperJPG for thumbs unless I can't get a good quality with a small file size - then I use PhotoShop.

HomeSite isn't a WYSIWYG editor and the finished code is about as close to hand coding as you can get without it looking like it was done on an editor.

[Lunatic]

I like
CoffeeCup Html Editor
JPEG Optimizer and
IrfanView for thumbs and image resizing/resampling.
IrfanView is free too. :)

[amadman]

I write html on notepad
Use Photoshop for graphics
and Ulead PhotoImact (free thing from a bundle) for batching thumb dimensions and sharpening.

[SqueezeBoobs]

I use content management software.

haha nooo just kiddin. It's just a plain blog software but it's customized enough so that it can look like a regular website with and type of design to it.

[Fonz]

Originally posted by Netpiddler
Wow Fonz, have you been peeking in my box?

Yep that is pretty much my setup.

I like to sneak into your office at night to build stuff, haven't you noticed my greasy fingerprints on your screen from when I tried to touch all the big titties out there? :)

[Netpiddler]

lol fonz! :D

Here I was blaming my kids for smudging my screen and changing my desk chair height... |angry|

[zel]

Um, for me that would be the following:

DreamWeaver MX for html, css, php and such
Photoshop 7.0 for static graphics, ImageReady for animated GIFs.
Flash MX for occasional work with Flash.
EasyThumbnails for makiking thumbs and resizing images in batch.
SmartFTP for uploads to server.
TheBat! for email communication.
IE Explorer and Netscape 7.1 for web browsing and cehcking compatibility.

Oh, and i run Apache web server on my computer, so that i dont need to upload anything to server to see if it works :)

<<<EDIT>>>
Forgot to say - i use ACD See v2.3 (very old one, but best of them, imho) to browse files, see images, copy-paste, and batch rename.

[koolkat]

I primarily use Adobe GoLive CS and Dreamweaver MX for the layout work, however I do quite a bit by hand as well.

For the graphics, I use Photoshop CS and ImageReady CS

[Jel]

Tried dreamweaver once, could NOT get used to that at all lol, so stuck to hand coding with Max's HTML Beauty, a damn fine program if ever there was one, and free too :D
Irfanview for the most part image wise, if needed I'll use PSP7 with a 'problem' set of content :)

[oast]

PaintShop Pro for the few graphics I have
UltraEdit for the main coding
NotePad for tweaking

Tried FireWorks and DreamWeaver, but could not get on with them and ended up cleaning the DW code by hand afterwards |sad|

[djhits]

depending on the site , but i use a combination of these.



photoshop 7.0 (graphics & thumbing)
dreamweaver MX (page layout)
notepad (tweaking and script modding or writing)

[Marty]

Guys I'm a firm believer in FrontPage. I find it runs better than all the other software programs for large "webs". I'll probably get flamed for this but once you turn off all the bullshit that frontpage tries todo to your page and just use it as a write html then see what it does kinda program... it works very well. But most of what I do like everyone else is template driven so I use find and replace alot.

1) Absolute HTML Compressor - to save what little I can on BW
2) Advanced Find And Replace - to change over templates
3) Adobe Photoshop - the only tool I believe makes crisp thumbs and can stamp your images correctly
4) Note Pad - quick and easy to change up a single page html
5) Front Page - LOL no comment :)
6) ACDSee - don't know if there's a better tool out there but I started using this years and years ago to look at porn and now I use it to rename and view files.
7) PathFile Twirler - I use this one to rename mass files. I think it was made to rename MP3z but I use it for porn. There are many others out there that are just as good.
8) Cute FTP - when I first started I used this then I switched over to WSFTP Pro. I have no idea why I switched but I just switched back to Cute FTP a few months back. WSFTP Pro was uploading partial files and screwing up my html pages. Was a real pain in the ass especially when you uploaded 140,000+ pages and had no idea which ones were messed up. Switched to Cute and it is by far the better of the two. No errors and if there are it reports them to you unlike WSFTP Pro which reported errors to me only 1/2 the time.

[Tommy]

this turned in to a really good thread

I might try dreamweaver

[CelticTiger]

Originally posted by Tommy
this turned in to a really good thread

I might try dreamweaver

Yeah...Dreamweaver rocks imo - the site management tools are great....I love it when you need to replace ref codes thru out a whole site a couple of clicks or two and your worries are over.

[Opti]

Originally posted by Tommy
this turned in to a really good thread

I might try dreamweaver

I found Dreamweaver had a very strange interface at first.. I looked at it by myself and decided it was too weird to bother working out.

It wasn't until someone spent 15 mins giving me a practical demonstration on the basic usage that I got into it..

It's definitely worth perservering with though.. if you have the same reaction trying to work it out at first.



*Tip: Dreamweaver is a bad memory hog... if you use photoshop at the same time.. both will run MUCH faster if installed on a seperate drive volumes.

[the New Shemp]

cute html
thumbsplus

[whitey]

Dreamweaver for page layout
aarachnophilia for html editing
Photoshop for graphics
Thumbsplus for image handling
Arles for thumbnail creation
PFE for coding

[Mishi]

Originally posted by Marty
Guys I'm a firm believer in FrontPage. I find it runs better than all the other software programs for large "webs". I'll probably get flamed for this but once you turn off all the bullshit that frontpage tries todo to your page and just use it as a write html then see what it does kinda program... it works very well. But most of what I do like everyone else is template driven so I use find and replace alot.

I might have flamed you, but you did point out that you have the sense to turn off the bullshit. ;)

FrontPage uncontrolled is straight from the fiery depths of hell.

I would still urge any new web page builder to learn raw HTML before trying to make nice with a so-called WYSIWIG program. It's just not difficult.

[Frank]

Hiya Tommy!

I started writing in html.
But (being a slow typer) I did buy a program.
But that was way back in 99 or so. Which I still use.
It's WebPage 5.0.
It pretty much does pure html. But I still go in and clean up things.

Everyone needs to know html and other things.

[Kath]

Wow.... you guys have me strolling down memory lane today - lol

It's nice to see that there are many more hand-coder diehards out there than I'd been led to believe. I was told that everyone used Dreamweaver or some other WYSIWYG program and that I was a control freak for doing it by hand.

I used Notepad for the first few years and then someone turned me on to Note Tab Pro. I still only use the hand code half (I know... old dogs... lol), but I like how it pops the various elements into color so I can spot them out easier when making adjustments - that is a helpful feature. I tried the auto-correct function a few times and found it UN-helpful, so I still take care of that kind of stuff on my own.

I started with Paint Shop Pro - I think it was Rowdy who sent me my first bootleg of version 2 or something like that YEARS ago. Then a good friend told me to get a "real" program and I broke down and grabbed PhotoShop and have never looked back.

I also still like WSFTP versus all those other proggies with all the bells & whistles so maybe I am a little too old school.

Anyway, that's what works for me. Really... it's nice to see so many others that do HTML by hand!

|roses|

[Kath]

....oops and a little add-on here re: Dreamweaver....

I've worked with several people over the years who absolutely LOVE this program - and while I'm sure it IS great for them, it absolutely SUCKS for someone who hand-codes it and follows after them to do updates to the pages.

Dreamweaver uses tons of superfluous code that really just bogs down the file size of the page and makes things more complex than it ever really needs to be.... at least in my experience...

I'm sure it's a great program but for folks who work TOGETHER, there's nothing better than doing it by hand, knowing how it all works so you can FIX IT yourself instead of relying on some program to get a clue and do it FOR you.

</off soap box>

[Crazy_Canuck]

Dreamweaver and mostly fireworks