I don’t use Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Some people may be surprised by this, since Dreamweaver is by many regarded as a industry-standard when it comes to webcoding, but I don’t use it. Why?
- It’s too difficult for me to understand and use. Learning to use Dreamweaver is almost as difficult as learning to use Photoshop (which I use).
- Dreamweaver is one massive program. It consumes lot’s of memory and machine power in general. It’s a html-editor on steroids I think. I don’t want to wait half a minute for my editor to start up if I just want to edit a couple of lines in a CSS-file.
In comes Smultron. It’s one brilliant piece of software that makes me work very effective. In fact, the program doesn’t do much actually, but it does what it does - what I need it to do - very effectively and fast. In general you could say that this program only highlight and color html codes. Just what I need. Some coloring. Makes it much easier to edit html-documents. I love the fact that Smultron:
- Starts up in a second. It’s really lightweight.
- Supports tabbed editing. I could have all the files of a project open at the same time and just shift between them using tabs. Easy.
- Can save whole projects as “projects”. What this mean is that I can save all the files for a theme for Wordpress in one “package” and when I open the “package” all of the files of that project gets opened. When I used simpler editors I had to open all the documents individually, and a theme can have a huge amount of files - so that took time. Not anymore.
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Of course, this editor requires you to know html and css and the codes you should use. The editor just colors the tags, but it’s won’t provide them, unlike a editor such Dreamweaver where you could actually do some “Drag & drop” editing. Of course, Smultron may very well provide html and css tags too, maybe from a list of some kind which you could find somewhere, but I don’t need those lists of tags since I code all for “hand” anyway, so I don’t look for such a function either.
Anyway, if you’re a mac-user you should really look at Smultron. It’s free and is available in different versions, even for Leopard. Download it from this adress:
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