What is the best tool for website creation?

randomshenans · 29 Jan 2013 at 11:00

Hello.

I would like someone to do this for me, but hell, if there are tools about to make it a little less difficult, I'll give it a bash.

I have a site: www.myceevee.com that I whipped up on a flash template, but would like to properly do it all.

What would you recommend doing it in? Html or? And then what would be the best tool to use for the job?

I'm pretty handy, can work most things out.

If I really mess up, I'll subtly ask for contact details for someone that can fix my mess

Thanks

tom_e · 29 Jan 2013 at 11:16

Notepad ++

yhack · 29 Jan 2013 at 12:41

Sublime text editor.

Use PHP, HTML, CSS.

GravyMonster · 29 Jan 2013 at 12:58

Layout in Balsamiq.

Design in PhotoShop or Illustrator.

If it's just a static site, code in Notepad++, otherwise whatever IDE is recommended for the language.

Hawk Tuah · 30 Jan 2013 at 09:04

tom_e said:
Notepad ++

In php, HTML CSS, jQuery/Javascript

robotSocks · 30 Jan 2013 at 20:40

WebMatrix

lordhughes · 31 Jan 2013 at 14:06

phpstorm.

Just looked up WebMatrix (never heard of it before), looks interesting

Also, for quickly prototyping something in a nice environment i use http://www.brackets.io an editor written by adobe and open source, nice and quick to get writing code and managing files (plus its free).

Edit: Oh, maybe I wont look at webmatrix just yet. On my work pc and it wants to restart it! no way! This PC has been on since October! not breaking that run

Stelly · 31 Jan 2013 at 14:08

for most microsoft web apps I would use Visual Studio Web Express... I love intellisense

Stelly

lordhughes · 31 Jan 2013 at 14:13

Stelly said:
for most microsoft web apps I would use Visual Studio Web Express... I love intellisense

Stelly

I think most people us Visual Studio for Microsoft web apps

Stelly · 31 Jan 2013 at 21:00

lordhughes said:
I think most people us Visual Studio for Microsoft web apps

I think you need to look at your own sentances before you criticise others

Stelly

lordhughes · 1 Feb 2013 at 23:21

Stelly said:
I think you need to look at your own sentances before you criticise others

Stelly

Are you picking up on us instead of use? Simple slip of the finger? Or am I missing some deeper meaning.

ashatron · 2 Feb 2013 at 20:45

yhack said:
Sublime text editor.

Use PHP, HTML, CSS.

Agree! Sublime is a fantastic free program. Has some amazing useability features even the most expensive software lacks.

Varsh · 3 Feb 2013 at 11:30

Just checked out Sublime and Brackets and I have to say that I'm really impressed by the pair of them. Just installed Brackets and liking the way the uto refresh works as well as the auto check browser CSS comptibility feature, that thing will help me to no end for real rapid template design.

Sublime though I have to admit that I never really had a look at as I'm too used to Dreamweaver, I'm so used to Dreamweaver's project management (which is second to none) that I've been sticking to it without looking at any others, but it seems that Sublime is doing some things that I wished Dreamweaver did and I'm simply in awe. Just downloaded it and installing it as we speak though hopefully productivity will go through the roof now.

Edit: Bah with Sublime I need to pay for it and I don't want to add to another hole in my pocket, guess I'll stick to Dreamweaver then. :\

On the other hand it is a fantastic piece of software with so many great features, but it's the project management features of Dreamweaver that I'll probably never find matched in the next year or so. It works just like Brackets except it actually updates the working files and the testing server files at the same time, plus I also like its syntaxing and more. Now if only it had some of those features that Sublime has...

randomshenans · 4 Feb 2013 at 12:04

Cool guys, thanks for the input. I'll try some of these out, probably realise I suck balls and pay someone to do it for me

Morningwalker · 4 Feb 2013 at 12:47

Web Studio 5.0 web design software to create professional looking web sites in minutes.

Etheco · 4 Feb 2013 at 14:19

I use Aptana to code in / and also the good old Vim

Varsh · 4 Feb 2013 at 17:22

Morningwalker said:
Web Studio 5.0 web design software to create professional looking web sites in minutes.

As much as you can create a web site in a few minutes, actually properly doing it takes days let alone minutes. Making something professional takes weeks, months and years. Whenever I see these applications that say "create professional looking sites in minutes" I just have to laugh, most of the time they're also highly unoptimised, poorly coded, bloated, and don't adhere properly to web standards or use way too many images and have tables as layouts.

The best way to do things is one way and that's to code by hand. Sure it's not for everyone but if you don't do that then you won't learn anything.

Edit: On another note I've just done my first template fully in Brackets and I have to say that while there's some things that really need to be implemented (like word wrapping and code hiding), the speed at which I did the template was a good 4x faster due to having instant visualisation on what's happening. Amazing piece of software and can't wait for it to progress further.

MissileMoose · 5 Feb 2013 at 01:01

Website Development Resources!

I recently purchased a personal license for PhpStorm, which extends upon the native HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript support of WebStorm with PHP. I recommend people to try the trial for themselves and also to check out the "Live Edit" plugin for Chrome which works with these IDEs.

I've picked out some of my bookmarked sites, hopefully these tools and resources can help others on here.

Frameworks / Coding related

- BootStrap

- Inuit.CSS

- Jekyll

- HTML5 Boilerplate

- UnSemantic [CSS - Successor to 960 Grid System]

- Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets

- Object Orientated CSS

- Block, Element, Modifier

Content Management

- Drupal

- Drupal Commerce

- Wordpress

- Joomla

- h5ai

Other Resources

- GitHub

- Stack Overflow

- jsFiddle

- HTML5 Doctor

- Semantic HTML5 Flowchart

- World Wide Web Consortium

- W3 HTML Validator

- W3 CSS Validator

- Adobe Kuler

- CSS3 Generator

- PasteBin

- Konigi

GravyMonster · 5 Feb 2013 at 10:02

Another couple for resources - Regexr, jQuery UI API, jQuery API

I think we have a resources thread already somewhere?

Hyburnate · 5 Feb 2013 at 10:34

Ahh sweet

Thanks for that, most of them I have heard of and used before but thats only because of sumbling to them instead of knowing their URLs.