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Thanks for the encouragement!

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Hey LauraFig, download a copy of Firefox Portable onto a flashdrive (or Firefox5 for that matter - works with Firebug etc.) and away goes your little IE problem. Then you can fiendishly install FF5 onto her machine/s, replace the shortcuts and bingo! silent revolution… ') Viva HTML5, Viva!

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I will give you a list of programs I use, and why I use them.

Espresso:
Pros:
-Running a great dark theme (I’m coding better with dark themes really)
-Code Navigator(Great for large files)
-Quick Publish(A small buildin FTP for your projects)
-Running Preview
-Great PHP Support
Cons:
-Lacking some HTML5 and CSS3 features
-Needs a better FTP

Coda:
Pros:
-Dark Theme
-Great Snippets support
-Built-in server explorer and FTP
-‘Sites’ to keep track of different sites both Local and remote
-Great HTML5, CSS3(vendor-prefix too), and PHP Support
-Built-in references
-‘Share’ edit code live and simultaneously with a co-worker in the next cube — or across the globe. Share documents via Bonjour, and track changes.
Cons:
-Lacking Javascript support
-Could use better code navigator

Textmate:
Pros:
-With Sparkup coding is neat!
-Lots of built-in completed code. etc. Write input press tab, press 2, and you will get

<label for=""></label><input type="text/submit/hidden/button" name="" value="" id="">

-Just pro and fast
Cons:
-Code hinting would be great
-Managing multiple files isn’t always easy

Mainly I use Espresso and Coda, and Textmate for fast coding (Zen Coding)

Together with my editors I use a bunch of apps to speed up my development.
Less:
-Writing CSS using Less, for fast vendor-prefixes, using some custom built functions to etc. make multiple borders.

Nettuts+ Builder:
-Optimizing my site a little before publishing.

Snippets:
-Snippets, like css reset, .htaccess gzip, expires, ETags and so on.

Structurer Pro:
-Building my structure for my site, download & installing wordpress with a click - Lots of features too.

There is apps like Textexpander I use too, etc. for basic HTML structure, css comments, gzip code for PHP resetting headings and so on.

You should look on the apps, when you get a better coder, and understand the basics more, and really wanna speed up you development, and still know what that is going on… Those apps can be recommended!

Good luck and wish you the best coding-skills :slight_smile:

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I remember when i first started learning html i was referred to 1stpage it has all features a html editor needs, visit HTML Editor, Website Builder & Web Design Software and download a copy.

1stpage still rocks.

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He’s mac-user and IMO 1stpage looks kinda old

CSS Class Support

For the 2006 version - Much better and more updated alternatives today…

But yeah okay, it’s a suggestion…

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Thanks for such a detailed list–I’ll look into this!

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Thanks, I hadn’t heard of that one.

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i must say that i went back to dreamweaver after trying a few others - using code view.

but i want to thank some of the posters for their suggestions: some of the software mentioned here i had never heard before.

so… thanks.
you rock!

will let you know how it goes.
cheers
gio