I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996 lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working pretty well for me).

I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that application?

Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win any design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts), it's falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of tables I'm doing)

> I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996
> lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in
> need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working
> pretty well for me).
>
> I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that
> application?
>
> Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was
> pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win any
> design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts), it's
> falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old
> ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of
> tables I'm doing)

Didn't realise there was a derivative out there - will give Nvu a chance.

I used to use MS Frontpage to figure out what HTML tags/properties were available, then code it manually in Notepad to avoid the bloated crap that Frontpage creates.

There's a useful reference file that I found too...
http://www.htmlhelp.com/distribution/

Not that I often make html pages, but when I do they tend to be simple stuff, so I create the page roughly in nvu and the tweak this or that in html. All this is so ten years ago that I'm ashamed of myself, but I never wanted to learn dreamweaver & friends, so now I get what I deserve. I'd appreciate if webdesigners pointed me in a learn-most-of-it-in-one-day direction.

Incidentally, there's a cool stuff related to html editing, called FCK. It's basically a component you put in your webpage which is an html editor, so you can edit html inside html. A bunch of websites are using it, and it works nice, even though you gotta use IE to get the most.

> (well ok, it's just a bunch of tables I'm doing)

I've been told that DIVs are the shit, now. Can anybody confirm, and send tutorial + paypal?

> I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996
> lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in
> need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working
> pretty well for me).
>
> I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that
> application?
>
> Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was
> pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win any
> design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts), it's
> falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old
> ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of
> tables I'm doing)
>
>
>
>

> I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996
> lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in
> need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working
> pretty well for me).
>
> I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that
> application?
>
> Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was
> pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win any
> design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts), it's
> falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old
> ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of
> tables I'm doing)
>
>
>
>

> > I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996
> > lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in
> > need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working
> > pretty well for me).
> >
> > I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that
> > application?
> >
> > Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was
> > pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win
> any
> > design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts),
> it's
> > falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old
> > ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of
> > tables I'm doing)
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

> I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996
> lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in
> need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working
> pretty well for me).
>
> I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that
> application?
>
> Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was
> pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win any
> design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts), it's
> falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old
> ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of
> tables I'm doing)
>
>
>
>