CSS/Html editor?

[Chaz19]

Does anyone a recommend freeware CSS/HTML editor? I've been searching the web and everything I found thus far is kind of sad. I used to be pretty well-versed in Dreamweaver, but I don't have enough $. Any thoughts?

[Mike Honcho]

SharePoint Designer is now a free download: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx

I use Visual Web Developer or Expression Web 2 for most of my coding.

[cypresss]

Those are professional IDE's and are doing more than CSS and HTML highlighting, parsing, etc.. All you have to do is to choose the right plugin. They have default plugins, but some coders have written better plugins. Search on google/bing for "editor name css plugin".

notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)
NetBeans (http://www.netbeans.org/features/ide/editor.html), Aptana (http://aptana.com/), Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) - they are running on java runtime environment (JRE), but I think is already installed and running on your machine.
emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - Very powerful as an text editor, but not so user friendly at the beginning.

good luck on your IDE choose and projects :)

ps: CSS editors reviewed (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/19/css-editors-reviewed/)...but they are not free :(

[Chaz19]

Aptana looks descent thanks for the advice.

[Scott Pruett]

Aptana is good, albeit somewhat bloated.

Mac or PC?

if Mac, these two are all I use:

CSSEdit: isn't free, but worth every penny: http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/

TextWrangler: is free, and a great text-based editor, but won't have fancy CSS features built-in: http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

[Chaz19]

Good advice Scott, thanks. I'm also playing around with coda, although it isn't free either. I'm on a Mac, but most of my web design software died on one of my old PCs. Eventually I'll try to get the Photoshop/Creative suite (I don't have the cash right now)-- but until then I need to make subtle adjustments to a few websites.

Are there any decent free PSD editors?

[Scott Pruett]

I'm a little irritated at Adobe. I'm pretty dependent on Photoshop, but upgrades are too frequent & expensive. I've been a user since v.4, owner since v.6. I'm now on CS3 (v.11 I think?). I hate to look back & think how much Adobe has made off of me. It just doesn't feel right.

Free? I dunno. Does GIMP read/edit PSDs? I hate GIMP though.

I have a copy of Pixelmator ($60), which may be getting more use if I can bring myself to ween myself away from PS. It's a fraction of Photoshop's cost & has a beautiful interface that's very similar to PS. Feature-wise it's quite good, albeit lacking in a few areas (some layer effects, etc)... but for the price, no complaints. It's one of those apps that I have a feeling will be around for a while. Try the demo.

check it: http://www.pixelmator.com/

[Steven Edwards]

Chaz, GIMP will let you open and edit PSD files.

[Scott Pruett]

Chaz, GIMP will let you open and edit PSD files.
even if it sucks :D

[zagam]

All the WYSIWYG seem to have some hidden agendas and only seem to work with a few popular browsers of the day.

Write it in a text editor with POSIX C locale so you don't get funny chars.
I use the W3C docs and nvi and tidy packages from Debian.

VI(P) POSIX Programmer's Manual VI(P)

NAME
vi - screen-oriented (visual) display editor

SYNOPSIS
vi [-rR][-c command][-t tagstring][-w size][file ...]