Notepad++?

I've heard it's VERY useful for making websites, but can anyone elaborate more? Thankyou.

 

It just gives syntax highlighting in the editor.. For example, in PHP on notepad++, an echo statement would be highlighted in blue.

so

echo "hello world";

would look like

echo "hello world";

The same occurs with HTML/etc.. It mostly tells you if you have the right function/etc.

 

So if I was doing as an example:

<center><h>Hello castown</h></center>

it would appear as:

<center><h>Hello castown</h></center>

 

Colors vary per-function,

<center><h>Hello castown</h></center>

looks like

<center><h>Hello castown</h></center>

And a quick tip, <center> is obsolete, try using

<h1 align="center">Hello castown</h1>

( looks like <h1 align="center">Hello Catsown</h1> in np++ )

I'd say download it and play with it, it's a small file, it's a very useful editor, and you got nothing to loose, lol. (tip-2) In order to get highlighting you have to save the document first with its correct extension ( index.html / etc) .

 

I thought they might have different colours. Also, just realized this might have to be in programming general? Aswell, why/how is <center> obsolete?

 

"Older HTML tags and attributes that have been superseded by other more functional or flexible alternatives (whether as HTML or as CSS ) are declared as deprecated in HTML4 by the W3C - the consortium that sets the HTML standards. Browsers should continue to support deprecated tags and attributes, but eventually these tags are likely to become obsolete and so future support cannot be guaranteed. "

http://www.codehelp.co.uk/html/deprecated.html

Just because it's deprecated doesn't mean you can't use it thought. If you want to go right ahead, hehe.

 

Oh, well if they can become un-supported by certain browsers, I'll use the

<h1 align="center">Hello Catsown</h1> instead Are there any other things like that, that I should know about? Does Notepad++ help alot aswell? Thankyou by the way

 

Err, Notepad++ just helps with highlighting, and that's it ( as far as i know .) The most useful tool is an IDE such as dreamweaver. Can't think of any free IDE's right now thought.

 

Yeah man, Dreamweaver is impressive and the tools make it a lot easier than notepad++

 

I find Dreamweaver very restrictive.

 

In what way? You know there is Code View, Right?

 

What I mean is, you can't move things around "freely" and no, I didn't know there was a code view. However, what I will be doing will only require some HTML.

 

Ah, You'll never be able to move things around freely, unless you use a free flash site or something, hehe.

 

It colors the words and stuff like Visual Studio would do..

And on topic of HTML editors, anyone remember MS Frontpage?