My Dreamweaver died

[Haze]

HI

My dreamweaver died, well keeps throwing up errors. I never use anything associated with its whistles and bangs and just use the source code view. So I am looking for recommendations. I believe HTML kit is popular....

[sarahA]

HTML Kit is pretty good, that's what I used to use before I moved onto dedicated PHP editors.

The colour coding is on par with DW if not better and you can get a few plugins for it. Then just use a decent FTP program. Personally I'd recommend SmartFTP but it'll cost about £20-30 for a license, however it's worth it IMO. Alternatively Filezilla is free.

[neal]

html-kit was awesome, but i never invested in html-kit tools (the paid for version - which is the only version being developed as of now, IIRC).

for a good, free alternative try netbeans (www.netbeans.org). it's powerful, intuitive and cross platform compatible, meaning i can create projects on the mac at work, throw them into one of the windows machines here or open them on my linux machine at home without any kind of configuration change.

the next version of netbeans (7) is touted to have html5/css3 syntax highlighting/support and it's highly extensible with addons.

it's also got built in SQL connection and query functionality so you can test your DB queries without needing phpmyadmin or mysql workbench (presuming you're doing mysql / php - i've not tried it with mssql but i can't see why it wouldn't work)

there's also CVS support and ftp too (i believe)

EDIT: oops, i meant netbeans 7 is the next one  - i forgot the current version was 6.9 and thought it was 9 instead!

[Haze]

I've got cuteftp which I've used for years, never used the ftp part of Dreamweaver.... things is very really sure why I kept using Dreamweaver... it's Dreamweaver MX so it's a wee bit old too.
I thought you both used html-kit...  

I just keep getting:

While executing receiveArguments, the following Javascript error(s) occurred:
At line 10 of file "C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration\Menus\MM\File_RecentFiles.js": exception throw in native function

[sarahA]

I thought you both used html-kit... 

Not here, not used it in over 3 years now so I'd go with neal's recommendations as I'm way out of the loop on standard HTML editors.

[Haze]

Now that is just showing off..... 

[neal]

i haven't used html-kit for about the same (perhaps longer) since i switched to running linux on my dev machines.

netbeans also has native java / c / c+ support if you want to go really hardcore...

but otherwise just download the features that suit you.

[Chris H]

CoffeeCup HTML Editor

Aptana

Komodo Edit

[keri]

When ever dreamweaver dies on any of the HTML dept's pcs in work deleting the configuration folder always seems to fix it

[keri]

oh and notepad++ does the job for most coding i do

[Ben]

oh and notepad++ does the job for most coding i do

I use Notepad++ and Topstyle for CSS. I could actually use notepad++ for both as I'm handwriting them all, but it's a force of habit.

[Haze]

When ever dreamweaver dies on any of the HTML dept's pcs in work deleting the configuration folder always seems to fix it

Deleting the whole folder...? And reinstalling it...? I am trying both NetBeans and HTML-Kit. But not used to either of them, and it's taking a wee bit time. I will try one or two others, but work is piling up at the moment too. Never used any bangs and whistles associated with DW, but was just used to it.

[keri]

I just delete the folder as it gets recreated, but by all means back the bugger up first.

[Haze]

I deleted the folder and DW wouldn't work as it says it requires the folder... anyway I restored the folder and DW started to work.....