What Do You Use To Build Your Websites?

[Greenguy]

Why am I asking? Why not?

And I'm not talking about scripts like TGPX, but more interested to see what everyone uses to write/code the HTML for their sites.

Please include links (with referral codes if they offer one) and a little info on how &/or why you use it.

Here's mine:



Namo WebEditor 5.5 - It's a WYSIWYG HTML editor that I got after Microsoft pulled FrontPage Express from Windows circa 2000 or so I think this version was released in 2003. I did upgrade to v9.0 when they released it, but it was really buggy (it'd automatically make any letters in a URL lowercase, which really fucked up affiliate codes ) & they vanished soon after that (back now, but it looks like it's just for eBooks?) You can still download it if you search Google, but I'm not sure if you can still register/license it or not (and it's useless unless you bought a license). While I did learn HTML on Notepad, making tables was so much easier with a WYSIWYG and, at the time, I'm not sure I even new about Dreamweaver. I did try it a couple years back, but the learning curve was too much for me

I use this basically all day, every day. The only really bad thing about it is that it fucking butchers the coding that you need to use in TGPX, so I basically have to have 3 files for each page on a site that's using TGPX (ex: index.html, index.txt, and index-code.txt) where I build the .html page in Namo, using simple text as a placeholder for where the TGPX coding goes (like "xxxNEWREGULARGALLERIESxxx" is on my version of the Chubby Links index page where today's new galleries will load). I then save it as a .txt file, search & replace a couple of things (ex: </php becomes {phpcode}), copy & paste the coding from the Template Wizard from the index-code.txt file (have to save it someplace, otherwise you have to redo it in TGPX each time) and Bingo! TGPX compatible coding

Textpad - I have v5.3.1 but I see they're up to v8.1.2. Like I said, I started building websites on Notepad*, coding (very basic) HTML by hand. Textpad obviously has more bells & whistles than Notepad. I still use it basically every day to edit code that Namo can't, mostly the above TGPX workaround, as well as css files (yes, I do those by hand lol).

*FUN FACT: All the pages on link-o-rama.com have an extension of .htm and not .html because Windows 95** only allowed for 3 character filename extensions.

**FUN FACT II: There was also an 8 character limit on the filenames, which is why my main page is mlinks.htm and not mainlinks.htm - read about 8.3 filenames on Wiki if your REALLY FUCKING BORED.

Search & Replace - Another outdated program I use (they're on v7.3 and the one I have is v4.8 from 2004). It's really handy to do mass search & replaces, especially for blocks of text/coding that's on multiple lines. When all 150+ pages of your website were made doing a "Save As" from a 1 page template, it really does come in handy when you need to edit something on all of the pages



OK, now it's your turn, Skippy

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