by A little survey for you! What’s your favorite HTML editor you use to design and develop websites? And what’s the reason for your choice? In the last year I tried a lot of interesting products but my favorite one remains Dreamweaver CS4. And for you?
Survey Results (October 16, 2009)
I want say a big thanks to everyone for your participation to this survey. Shortly, there are some interesting informations to highlight: 68% of users use more then a single HTML editor. The favorite editor for MAC users is Panic Coda. The favorite one for Windows users is Notepad++ a free code editor that supports several languages and offers a lot of features that make this product really interesting. The third place appertains to Dreamweaver but mainly for professional users (I think because it’s a little bit expensive). TextMate and Aptana follow in the list. Some Linux users use Komodo. Here is the chart with all results (comments are closed):
Antonio Lupetti is an italian engineer, pro blogger, Mac user, founder of woorkup.com. He lives in Rome, Italy. Follow Antonio on 
October 15, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Espresso to quick changes, Coda for front-end projects and Dreamweaver for the rest.
October 16, 2009 at 5:02 am
Dreamweaver CS4 of course. But since ColdFusion Builder (Eclipse) will have most of the HTML/CSS/JS/FTP features built-in, i’ll probably switch to that after it is released
October 15, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I use e on pc and Coda on mac, though on both I tend to stick with the basic text editor.
October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Coda is nice, but not comparable with Dreamweaver. For complex projects I think Dreamweaver is the best choice (even if a little bit expensive…)
October 15, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I use notepad++ on a pc and Coda when on the mac
October 15, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I use Espresso for everything… no need for anything else.
October 15, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Windows: e – Text Editor
Mac OS X: Textmate
October 15, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Notepad++
I honestly feel hand coding is the best way
October 15, 2009 at 2:08 pm
And to manage your site remotely? Ex. FTP transferts?
October 15, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Simple: WinSCP can scan a directory for new changes and only upload the new/updated files
October 15, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Windows: Aptana
Mac OS X: Coda
October 15, 2009 at 2:05 pm
i used DW most of the time. Been using coda a lot lately. especially if its editing a WP theme. it logging into the server to remote edit is much easier and nicer than DW and since it uses a database its easier to render the results when debugging. so id say its 75% DW, the rest Coda.
i have Espresso and CSSEdit as well. dont like either too much.
October 15, 2009 at 2:07 pm
OS X: Textmate
MS: Notepad ++
October 15, 2009 at 2:07 pm
TextMate +1
October 15, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Textmate for everyday production
BBEdit for grep, multi-file search, & working on the server
Going to switch to Coda when working on the server.
October 15, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I’m suggesting Sublime Text ( http://www.sublimetext.com/ ) for everyone who needs simple and nice editor for handcoding.
October 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm
vim or eclipse
October 15, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Notepad++ can also manage your site remotely (ex. FTP transfers?)
October 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Notepad++
Have used Editplus, UltraEdit etc before, but Notepad++ is by far the editor that matches all the coding essentials.
October 15, 2009 at 2:17 pm
OS X: Coda
PC: Dreamweaver
October 15, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Notepad++ for quick changes.
Dreamweaver for the real stuff.
October 15, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Panic’s Coda. Does everything I want and more.
October 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm
+1 Textmate
Before that Coda!
October 15, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Dreamweaver mostly.
October 15, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Blumentals Webuilder
October 15, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Coda is my tool of choice for CSS, HTML and FTP. I formerly used Dreamweaver in PC, but now in Mac just Coda does the job.
October 15, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Coda on the Mac for everything, definitely.
October 15, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Coda on Mac and Context when using Windows.
October 15, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I use Notepad++ on Windows at home for personal projects and Taco Editor/Dreamweaver CS4 when I’m at work.
October 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Geany. And Geany through Filezilla when I have to make changes on running websites.
October 15, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I’ve tried EditPlus, but Notepad++ is by far my favorite. Suits perfectly with firebug.
October 15, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Dreamweaver CS4 is my tool but notepad++ it’s usefull as text editor for filezilla
October 15, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I am probably the only one in the world who uses it lol, but its Coldfusion Studio for me, has been for a very very long time. I remember using Homesite very long ago.
October 15, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I used Homesite a long time ago… but I’m immediately switched to Dreamweaver. If I remember well the first Dreamweaver version I used was the 4.
October 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Dreamweaver CS4 and gedit… i want a version of gedit for Windows ;-)
October 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Visual Studio 2008
October 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm
UltraEdit for PC, BBedit for Mac. Neither are free, but both are well worth the money.
October 15, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Netbeans if I need a proper IDE with PHP debugging/jQuery intellisense, and Vim + winscp for quick edits.
October 15, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Aptana Studio does the trick.
For the quick changes, Notepad++ is awesome.
October 15, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I use Coda mainly (with css files edited externally with CSSedit) but I prefer Textmate when working on single html files (like when I’m writing HTML newsletters).
October 15, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I use E-texteditor for PC.
October 15, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Aptana does the job very well… Had a short affair with it but got back to DW CS4
October 15, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Panic’s Coda
October 15, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Espresso
October 15, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I am on windows and I use notepad ++. Notepad ++ is very light and hand coding is fun. To handle the transfers I use filezilla. Notepad ++ has a FTP plugin though.
October 15, 2009 at 2:51 pm
70% of my stuff is made with DW CS4. Rest ist done in Coda.
October 15, 2009 at 2:53 pm
HTML/CSS: Dreamweaver
PHP: Netbeans
Quick edits: Vim (MacVim, specifically)
Deciphering CSS weirdness: Safari’s Web Inspector and/or Firebug
One other editor I’ve been enjoying is Komodo Edit (the free version of their IDE). It’s a pretty sweet editor and I’m using it as my exclusive “learn python” editor in order to get a feel for it.
I produce/develop a fair number of HTML email templates and absolutely nothing beats Dreamweaver for this. The ability to visually identify areas that need editing and then jump into the code at that point is invaluable. Frankly, Dreamweaver’s auto generated code (something I often see people using as a reason to not use it) has never been of use to me but it has so many other awesome abilities (visual id areas to get into, auto comment/uncomment, tag completion, the ability to remove tags in one click, etc) that it is still super effective for HTML.
October 15, 2009 at 2:57 pm
PC – eTextEditor, Intype
Mac – Coda
October 15, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Aptana and Geany (on Ubuntu)
October 15, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I really love smultron on mac, it’s really simple and does what I want.
October 15, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/3sx855 I never heard Smultron.
October 15, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Aptana and Bluefish on Linux
Aptana, Pspad or notepad++ on Windows
October 15, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Komodo Edit for PC, Mac and Linux.
October 15, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I can say that I tried every text editor and IDE. I started with Allaire’s Homesite, which was one of the best. Then I used UltraEdit. Then e, EditPlus, Notepad++, Dreamweaver and more.
Now I’m so happy with Aptana. It’s the best editor for me. I use Aptana for HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript. It has so many great features that make my day easy. FTP, SVN, Debug, Code Completion, Database Explorer, Code Snippets, Plugins for jQuery and Adobe AIR.
What can I want more? And all those features come for free.
October 15, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Windows: Aptana + Notepad2
Mac: Aptana
October 15, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Windows – notepad
Mac – macvim, textwangler, dreamweaver cs3
October 15, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Honestly, I use DreamWeaver CS3 for the live view of the webpage (ie, what it looks like when I code it) and the syntax highlights but honestly, if I tried, I could still manage to use something like notepad++ and have my browser open, ready to f5.
For the FTP I use Filezilla, I didn’t know you could do FTP with Dreamweaver o.o