Web Design Advice

I am strongly considering using Content Express on a couple of sites I manage. I have played with it and it seems easy for me to use.

I was wondering if anybody had any opinions on Content Express or have run into any problems with it that I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance.

UGGGH

I hate out-of-the-box HTML editors.

They have the strangest writing layout so anybody that does manual coding gets lost in the poibntless meta tags.

Go by hand, its the strongest and most versatile. You can get a better feel for what your doing so you can get YOUR look and feel to the page.

I'm thinking of giving this free Dreamweaver alternative a whirl for my next web page. Win, Mac and Linux compatible, and open source too :)

http://www.nvu.com/

Must confess that I havent tried it yet, but it looks like it might be cool.

I use nvu. Good for a free app but it's pretty buggy - not serious (oops, it's crashed) bugs, more annoyances. Also, like most other WYSIWYG website builder apps, you need to keep a close eye on the HTML source.

WYSIWYG HTML editors YUK!

I use Homesite 5+ now thats a nice HTML IDE.

I use Ultraedit

Dreamweaver here (good ol' Education copies from school ;P), but mainly just for its nice built-in CSS editor (aka, dont have to memorize all the tags >.>), too bad it's preview display when coding the actual site itself is garbage.

Would rather just use a free IDE that keeps track of tabbing, hell, the BB ide would work for me, always got the Alt+Tab & F5 thing going when I'm trying to work my layout.

notepad all the way...

I mean.... why use anything else? If it is an editor... you have to learn the editor.. might as well learn the code and be able to do work anywhere...

I prefer WYSIWYG editors, mainly because it lets you experiment with the layout and composition quickly.

Coming from an artists perspective thats a really useful thing, even if you can code a web page. Also means you can create your page in something like image ready, slice it up and load it into your editor already built in tables and create a template really quickly to build a site on.

i use notepad. doesnt make sense to me to use WYSIWYG editors unless i am in a hurry

I am not interested in any HTML editors, nor will I spend 2-3 years writing a stable, secure and usable alternative to PostNuke from scratch with notepad (I seriously doubt that those who suggest such things are even remotely capable of doing it themselves. If they were, there would be a lot more PostNuke & PHPNuke clones on the market, lol).

Back on topic, has anybody actually used Content Express (which is a derivative of PostNuke) and have any good or bad experiences with it to share?

Thanks in advance for any help with the question asked ;c)

I've never used it, but you may be better off asking that question here.

Thanks, Ian!

I use VI... without a monitor dammit!.


Seriously though, the W3C has apparently got a thing called Amaya, don't know if it's any good, but it's free.

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

I herd of the best free HTML writing app out there. I use it all the time, in fact its all I use (except image editing)

Its called....


NOTEPAD

dun dun duuuunnnn!

Actually, ConTEXT www.context.cx

Best thing ever. Combined with some products from www.visibone.com and you're well on your way :)

I use either notepad (windows) or vi (linux shell)

I'm really surprised people are using vi in Linux, there are many massively superior editors for linux without resorting to vi. IMHO using vi in this day and age is just masochism. Why not save and load to magenetic tape as well?

Darkheart

vi is extremely powerful -- the only real drawback is the rather steep learning curve... but once you know what you're doing, there's few editors that can rival it.

Actually, I was joking about using vi, I thought I'd made that clear.

vi is horrendous, emacs is better (but still not great).

vi may be powerful, but since the only thing I would do with it is edit text files, that power is useless.

What!...You really use a monitor?...Wimp!

Like they say, Emacs is a great operating system, if only it came with a decent text editor. :-P