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Posted by Rene Blansette
Rene Blansette
2,164 Points

What is a good, inexpensive web editing software?

I'm looking for a decent, inexpensive software to create web pages. I had downloaded a few free programs, including Aptana Studio 3, which seemed to be ideal, but folders would disappear, yet the code would remain. But I guess you kinda get what you pay for.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

What do you mean by software? are you looking for a text editor? or are you wanting packages like font styles/icons that kinda stuff.

3 Answers

Yosef VanTine
Yosef VanTine
8,880 Points
Yosef VanTine
Yosef VanTine
8,880 Points

Several really good ones are

A seriously simple, but powerful one for windows only: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Another really good one is: http://brackets.io/

And the one that I use and is free at the moment as it is in beta, but normally $80: http://www.sublimetext.com/

Hope that helps :)

Melisa Hamilton
Melisa Hamilton
11,729 Points
Melisa Hamilton
Melisa Hamilton
11,729 Points

I love using Atom. It's super easy to use and you can customize it.

https://atom.io/

Vedran Brnjetić
Vedran Brnjetić
6,004 Points
Vedran Brnjetić
Vedran Brnjetić
6,004 Points

Which language are you planning to code in?

If you are aiming for PHP, I use Eclipse PDT, ( https://eclipse.org/pdt/ ) which is a free version of Eclipse for PHP development and is very powerful. But sometimes, it's quicker to just do some things in Notepad++ or Sublime, depending on situation.

Rene Blansette
Rene Blansette
2,164 Points

Right now: HTML & CSS

Vedran Brnjetić
Vedran Brnjetić
6,004 Points

So you basically want a simple and good What You See Is What You Get editor, so you can visually edit what web page looks like?

I found this article on the topic http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-wysiwyg-html-editing-software-for-windows/

Software like that is good when you start, and for some quick prototyping, but once you get more experience, you will want more control over the development process.