HTML editor recommendations?

[mckitterick]

Hi folks -

My job, my CSSF activities, and my life require me to do a lot of HTML. Since getting my new computer and installing Office, I discovered that Microsoft no longer makes FrontPage. Yes, I know it sucked as a WYSYWIG HTML editor, but I learned how to work with it in ways that it couldn't hurt me. Features I liked best:

. Click the Preview and it takes you to the right spot in your code.
. Type text in the Preview and it shows up in the code.
. Open a bunch of files (say, an entire website) simultaneously, make one change and apply it to all of them, then save all at once.

I work mostly in the code section, so I don't encounter the typical coding errors FrontPage injects.

Today I needed to make a bunch of HTML changes to some files, and searched the internets high and low for a program that would serve my needs. The closest thing I found was good ol' HTML-Kit, but that doesn't do most of what I need. If I only want to work in code, I prefer Notepad++; I can open my own browser to see the result. I tried a few others and ended up uninstalling them right away.

Any recommendations of programs that have those features? I'd prefer free, but don't mind paying a little. Free is best because I can have it installed on the classroom computers, where students can use it and download something they know how to use at home.

Thanks!
Chris

Comments

[geekmom.livejournal.com]

I've got Dreamweaver at work, but I don't use it much anymore. Microsoft does make a new Frontpage, Expression Web, if that's what you really want. If you're part of a campus license, chances are it's covered. It's nearly identical. I always hated the proprietary non-standard crap it seemed to want to put in everything.

For free, I like Komodo Edit because it does more than just HTML editing, so if you want to tweak the php in that Drupal shell, no problem. http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit. But you might also want to check out Firebug. http://getfirebug.com

And if it's just something where I need to insert formatted HTML - I use Xinha! Here, a Firefox extension that turns every window into a WYSIWYG editor.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

KU no longer seems to have any licenses for HTML editing. At least English doesn't have it. Budget cuts, I'm sure.

Anything called Komodo Edit is worth a try!