TEH notepad

What would be the best way to create websites? I don't like notepad anymore.

Dreamweaver is nice

I like to use Nvu.  May not be as good as Dreamweaver, but it is WYSIWYG.  And it's free.

WYSIWYG is a bad idea.

Arachnophilia

Nvu is a bad idea.
>Fixed

Seriously.  It's a piece of junk that was never really finished, and isn't supported.  There have been no changes since its 1.0 release.

Very true. Nvu has loads of retarded bugs. Such as saving xhtml files with uppercase tags. HATE!

Avoid Frontpage...

Don't use flash. At least not for your whole site. Too many flash-'powered' sites are a case of style over substance, and it can't be indexed by search engines properly.

Dreamweaver maybe. It's expensive unless you think you can get it done in the 30 day trial - for that, I advise writing your content FIRST, then DL dreamweaver and handle your design. Or look for a magazine covermount.

Consider a php-based content management system: get installed on your server (try lycos tripod for free php hosting), find a good template, and you're done.

Or, if you don't care about the HTML being horrendous, just use a word processor and save as HTML.

notepad is the best way to create html

>>7

software, expensive?

I don't give a fuck about XHTML, XML, web semantics, and wankery, I just generate HTML that works on all browsers, and use B because STRONG is longer and uglier and does exactly the same. I use as few HTML attributes as I can and move styling to CSS, but I don't shy from using a some tags like B which I can later redefine if I want to oppose the default stylesheet. Makes my stylesheets shorter, my pages faster and better looking to the source code viewer. Tags go in uppercase because that makes them easier to read.

I use a text editor. I'd never consider anything that will generate nasty HTML for me. I write HTML. Dreamweaver is Mother Russia.

I don't even have the Flash plugin installed.

>>10
 u relly shudn't have ppl able to c ur source code
too much liek furfux

Tags go in uppercase because that makes them easier to read.
You were doing well up to that point.

>>10
You know, there's a reason for XHTML.  It's used so that the code will work on all browsers, including things like mobile phones and such that only work with well-formed pages.

>>12
Exactly, that's why people invented SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING.

Also, standards FTW.