HTML Editing (what to use)

I have been using frontpage now for a couple of years and am getting tired of the usual problems. So I am going to have to start over and want to start using the right program to get the job done. I do not know how to write html code. But do understand the basics. What would be the best program to edit/create webpages in? I know some of you might say notepad. "grin" but that is a bit much for me.
Thanks,
Scotty

I like dreamweaver MX very much. If you are looking to hand code. i have heard of people using Home Site. I have never used that just what i have read. Dreamweaver MX and great features for looking at you design will still seeing the code.

I am a huge backer of macromedia software.

another option is Go Live by Adobe ( i have never used that either but if it is anywhere as good as photoshop then it's probably not bad)

Hope this helps


P.S. I dont like Front Page at all.

I've always been happy with Dreamweaver, though I never upgraded from 4.0 to MX. Now I'm all Linux, so if I have HTML editing to do, I usually resort to good old vi.

sorry to sound dumb but whats "vi"

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It's a very simple text editor that's been around for years. Think of it as you would Notepad, but originally for Linux and with no mouse capability. You navigate vi by using a rather abstruse series of keyboard commands. (Vim is out now, of course, and puts a much more friendly GUI on top of this editor.) I wasn't seriously recommending vi as an option but was sort of cracking on myself for sticking to such an old-timey editor when there are much more user-friendly things out there. Oh, and I didn't think you sounded dumb, by the way.

i have been wanting to go some what linux exclusive for a while. I have red hat 8 set up with Gnome. i dont use it much, but i figure if i just throw myself into it, ill learn it. The main thing holding me back was not knowing about a program similar to Dreamweaver. Do you know of one.

Hey Scotty, sorry for jumping on you post with my questions.

Thanks

It seems like I did run across a GUI tool for HTML dev the other day on my system at home, but I don't remember what it was, and I didn't take a close look at it. Apparently, I don't have the same program on my system here at work. There's a program called BlueFish that's roughly equivalent to Home Site for Linux, but it doesn't come with all the widgets that ship with DW. It's an editor and not a Drag and Drop tool.

On an obliquely related note, I found an excellent vector graphics program along the lines of Illustrator or Freehand that runs in Linux. It's called sodipodi and works pretty darned well for my purposes. I'm no Illustrator wizard, but anything I could do in Illustrator, I can do in this. It saves in SVG format, but you can export BMP and PNG files, which you can then pull into Gimp and convert to whatever other formats you may need. If needing to do vector graphics has played any part in holding you back from switching, this discovery removes that excuse!

I just dug up the following page, which contains links to a couple of (Linux) HTML editors. I've never seen them in action, but you might look into them. Based on the brief descriptions, Ginf and Peacock might fit the bill.

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/search.php

kewl!

thanks