Best free windows HTML/CSS editing software

DopeTech

Hi guys, just looking for some advice. Want to get back into programming. Did a little some years back using Dreamweaver. Would this still be the recommended software or is there something better nowadays?

Used upload it then with filezilla.

Then if anyone has recommendations for free domains/hosting. I don't need anything special, any address that would be free for a year would do. TIA.

Buford T Justice

Talking about hosting is a paddling round these parts.

In terms of HTML and CSS, are you looking to use any back-end language behind it? If not, then the best advice I can give you is to try and learn the syntax of the languages rather than relying on a drag and drop editor otherwise it'll cause you no end of problems in the long run.

Eclipse will have an extension for it, but it can be a very heavyweight IDE to use for such a lightweight language.....

DopeTech

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Talking about hosting is a paddling round these parts.

In terms of HTML and CSS, are you looking to use any back-end language behind it? If not, then the best advice I can give you is to try and learn the syntax of the languages rather than relying on a drag and drop editor otherwise it'll cause you no end of problems in the long run.

Eclipse will have an extension for it, but it can be a very heavyweight IDE to use for such a lightweight language.....

Yes looking to use the back-end language. I'm starting off basic but hopefully over time I will improve.

fcrossen

I like Komodo Edit. Free and available for several platforms.

SubatomicKiwi

brackets.io

Allows you to view the page you're working on as you work on it,with live updates. Looks great, is free and supports a variety of languages and extentions.

Atomic Pineapple

I like Atom

https://atom.io/

Talisman

For a free editor, Atom, Brackets and Visual Studio Code are all popular.

More Freebies:

We're not supposed to talk about hosting but take a look at OpenShift, there's a nice free offering there.

RedisLabs offer a free cloud hosted Redis data store.

Firebase has a free tier offering a 1GB database.

Plenty to get you started.

aatifriaz

Yes, Dreamweaver is still good software.

Graham

It might be good software but it's not used in the commercial world anything like as much these days.

jumbone

Check out sublime text

Graham

jumbone wrote: »

Check out sublime text

+1 for sublime. Some of the Jetbrains IDEs may also be worth a look if the OP is willing to shell out a few quid.

awec

Sublime isn't worth paying for just for HTML/ CSS.

Brackets is pretty good, Atom is also good. Visual Studio code is good too. The free full edition of Visual Studio is good but probably overkill.

Buford T Justice

aatifriaz wrote: »

Yes, Dreamweaver is still good software.

If you want to have huge amounts of needless pseudo selectors and classes inserted all over your pages, then yea, its great.

Yabazza

+1 for Komodo Edit

Journeyman_1

awec wrote: »

Sublime isn't worth paying for just for HTML/ CSS.

Brackets is pretty good, Atom is also good. Visual Studio code is good too. The free full edition of Visual Studio is good but probably overkill.

People pay for Sublime now?

Idleater

Journeyman_1 wrote: »

People pay for Sublime now?

I bought it for myself as a birthday present having already used it for a year clicking later. It's not expensive and cheaper than some editors. I still recommend it for free to colleagues.

I do admit to seeing day 999 of your 30 day trial of notepad++ though.

On topic, it might be overkill for just css editing, but there are some nice HTML etc plugins available for it.

deconduo

Idleater wrote: »

I do admit to seeing day 999 of your 30 day trial of notepad++ though.

Huh? Notepad++ is open source and free. There is no trial/paid version.

Idleater

deconduo wrote: »

Huh? Notepad++ is open source and free. There is no trial/paid version.

Going back a few years in my memory now.... Could it have been Winedit perhaps?