I know this sounds really weird, but I think that Apple Homepage is better than Microsoft Frontpage.
A few years ago, I had to make a website on an Apple Computer for school. I actually didn't find it that bad. There were giant libraries of pictures, clipart, and animations. There were lots of different templates for your website. There were many different font options.
About half a year ago, I tried to use Microsoft Frontpage. I tried to make a webpage using it, but it never turned out exactly the way I wanted it. Eventually, I gave up and decided that it sucked!

So, Apple Homepage isn't that bad, and that's why it's an option on this poll; otherwise, I wouldn't even bother. Besides, wasn't it Apple that originally came up with the point-and-click OS?

I'm not saying that Apple computers aren't that great; I'm just saying that you shouldn't use Microsoft Frontpage; it's a complete waste of time; it's faster to code the webpage from scratch!

    I was told that pico came with PuTTY, and that it wasn't actually installed on any remote computers

    could be, to avoid the overhead of running the program on the remote computer.

    it wasn't actually installed on any remote computers

    that's a little misleading, pico could be installed on a given remote computer, even if putty provides for it.

    For nano:
    http://www.nano-editor.org

      that's a little misleading, pico could be installed on a given remote computer, even if putty provides for it.

      It probably could be installed on a remote computer; I'm just saying that in that particular case it wasn't. We had to login to the server to use pico and off the server we had to use Notepad, because that was the only other program in which we could edit our files. Not to say that Notepad is bad, because it's not. I still use it to some extent, although now I mostly use Source Edit, but for one page I use Notepad, because Source Edit keeps changing my ‡ into † and that's annoying.

        if you code in notepad your code will look ugly on anything but a windows based editor or one with support for \r\n. notpad uses the DOS way of breaking lines and not the nix way, so generally my code looked bad in nix editors before i switched to a real editor. also anything with just \n shows up wierdly in notepad i've found..... little black boxes and such. not something that helps when reading code.

          I might try out Crimson Editor; thanks for the tip.

            Okay, this is the last time I post this:

            What I use:

            Windows: UltraEdit
            OSX: Jedit
            Linux/BSD: Quanta

              Okay I'm fed up with Source Edit, back to Notepad for me!

                I learned something today...Source Edit is good, until it changes your ‡ into † and your Σ into σ

                Use Notepad! Total control over everything!

                Besides, Source Edit's highlighting for HTML is annoying. Really annoying!

                  My server runs linux, my workstation runs linux, I have the server drives mounted via smb onto my workstation. conversion to / from windows is not an issue for me, since I don't run that OS for anything other than games. (I remember when i had an Amiga and everyone said it was just a "game machine" not for "real work" like a Windows PC... sigh 🙂

                  I generally use pico or nano (whichever is around at the time.) I'll use vi if I have to, but I only know the basic commands and find it hard to switch back and forth from it to anything else.

                  Since the drives are mapped to my workstation, I often use kedit, joe, or any of the other dozen or so text editors installed by default on RedHat.

                    pico is okay, except for when you transfer the file you wrote in pico to Notepad, because the line-breaking is done differently, so if your coding was spread out over many lines in pico, it'll only be spread out over 5 or 6 in Notepad.

                      ULTRAEDIT

                      The fact that I can directly connect to my website via FTP, open a file, hit Ctrl-S, and view it in the browser makes it all worthwhile.

                        I'm still for Notepad....in fact, I find highlighting kind of annoying.

                          Long live EditPlus.

                          I like the features of Zend, but I hate the fact it's written in Java. It makes it look all cluttered and what-not - but this could be because I run it under Win32. Great app though.

                          Downsides? How the flaming hell do I change my syntax highlighting files (rhetorical q)? Eg, add new keywords? From what I can see, I can't. Sucks to be me if I wanted to add highlighting for PHP5 keywords.

                          EditPlus doesn't have code completion. If it had that, I would be in love.

                          Linux, my choice is Vim. Such a nifty little program.

                          I might go on an editor scavenger hunt sometime soon...and see if I can find something to satisfy my quest for the perfect editor...

                            You say that now, but wait till you try working hardcore in it 😉. You begin to miss your tabs to jump between files, the line numbers and regex search and replace.

                            But if you like your coding plain, hey, to each to their own 😃.

                            On a side note, NoteTab Light is supposed to be quite a good Notepad replacement:

                            http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php

                            This link has a list of a few editors too. Not very complete, but. No EditPlus? Blasphemy.
                            http://phpeditors.linuxbackup.co.uk/

                              Okay, I'll try Crimson Editor or something else today...

                              But I'm still p-oed at Source Edit!

                                Originally posted by BuzzLY
                                ULTRAEDIT

                                The fact that I can directly connect to my website via FTP, open a file, hit Ctrl-S, and view it in the browser makes it all worthwhile.

                                Amen brutha!

                                Don't forget, it's probably got the best block/vertical editing capabilites of any editor out there, and the fact that I can VERY easily create/edit custom syntax highlighting makes it a winner.

                                It also doesn't hurt that it's made by a couple of "local" guys (local to us that is)

                                  I have changed to Crimson Editor until it p-oes me.

                                    Man, all this time you spend evaluating editors and file transfer tools and switching around... you could've written your own already! 🙂 j/k