Notepad++: The Free Editor
It may surprise you to hear that many seasoned web developers don’t use full blown programs such as Dreamweaver. Not that these applications are bad, but they are, well, big. In the end we just wish to create our HTML, our PHP code, our Javascript code and, since we are experienced developers, we know how to write code. What we want is a light weight development tool that doesn’t tell us what to do. We want to edit our code quickly and easily.
I’m especially fond of Notepadd++. There are so many reasons, but I’ll bore you with just a few of them:
- It starts up in no-time, even if you have an older computer,
- A simple interface, which you can add and remove components from as needed,
- Syntax highlighting for more programming languages than you can program in, including: HTML, Javascript, CSS, Java, PHP, ASP, C#, Actionscript and many, many more,
- Code completion,
- It’s completely free!
While you can’t beat programs like Eclipse for large projects in Java or PHP for object oriented programming, there’s nothing like Notepad++ for quickly editing your files. It’s definitely my editor of choice.
I’m a beginner at learning XHTML and I lucked out and found this program, Notepad , and I love how I can tell at a glance if something is wrong with my code. It’s a clean, up-to-date program too. I plan to use it for a good, long time!
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Seems odd that you teach how to make a website with html. Yet you downloaded a free theme and posted a blog using wordpress.
About equally odd when you take the time to post a comment on a site that hasn’t seen a new post in 9 months?
But… point taken and thanks for your comment.
It isn’t my intention to teach people NOT to use wordpress. I think wordpress is a very good cms.
Hey, I use Notepad every single day of my professional life. Who doesn’t like something that’s free? I sure do
It isn’t bloated like Dreamweaver and gives you all the features you need without going overboard.