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Originally Posted by マルコ
Number three: why not use Notepad++? Or NetBeans? Or one of the other much better free HTML editors?
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Hey,
recommending Netbeans for HTML "beginners" is just like recommending kindergarten kids to play with a checkers board instead of the play-doh.
Netbeans will overwhelm even mediocre HTML "scripters". The whole stuff you don't need (talking about the project system, versioning, templates [angularjs, modernizr], responsive web design, JS-specific features (unit tests) and so on and so forth) will come in from time to time but even I as a fairly seasoned web developer don't enjoy using Netbeans, as I'm not into learning it.
Netbeans surely will give you a productivity boost once you're 100% in it, but apart from that using Netbeans (except for maybe..Java, haven't tried it for anything apart from Web Development [HTML, CSS, PHP]) will..
1) not lead to successful development
2) not lead to funny web development either
I'm not really sure if you've actually used Netbeans
Notepad++ is a "good" recomendation. In general, text editors are a good recommendation (even though I prefer to use Sublime Text II but I won't start the debate on the best text editors [vim!!1111!!] here now). But for a damn BEGINNER, the OP is right: Dreamweaver is perfect, when used correctly. The split view is good to figure what elements do what and to get a neat sort of "overview" about how your page might look. Code changes are reflected really fast and the first steps won't be disappointing when you actually can
see that you're creating something.
I, personally am currently using this "tool box":
Sublime Text 2 with emmet.io for general file editing (html,css,js,php) and rapid development (Emmet) of layouts and stuff like that and Navicat for database development.
Once you're good at it, you can quit using Dreamweaver as you'll be annoyed by it SO fast.
greets,
Cooltek
P.S.: can't believe I'm writing this only to procrastinate..