I do all of my web development these days in Aptana Studio (the Eclipse plugin). Eclipse is a platform of its own (i.e. it’s cross-platform, but doesn’t integrate like native Mac apps), but the truth is that once you’ve had real code analysis, you can’t ever go back.
For code editing I use Dreamweaver because it uses (in coding mode) an updated version of the excellent Allaire Homesite. Having said that, I couldn’t agree more with whoever mentioned the "layers’ thing in DW. It’s so wrong there are no words, but it’s there for those who like style over substance. I tried RapidWeaver and found it…rinky-dink and limiting.
As far as Joomla being a “big” CMS, it certainly doesn’t have to be. I have lots (10-20) of Joomla sites ranging from 2 to 200+ pages. It’s as big or as small as you need it to be.
For those who want a simple and easy to manage CMS, but get freaked out by Joomla, I’d recommend WordPress. It’s so much than a blogging CMS (although it’s good for that too). It’s much more versatile than it gets credit for.
Oops. I got carried away and forgot to vote.
RE: Sandvox
I don’t see the educational discount on their website. How did you learn this?
Thanks,
jb
Here’s what the Karelia rep told me:
We do offer educational (student/faculty) and non-profit 510©(3) discounts, a discount of 33% for a single-user license to Sandvox or Sandvox Pro. (We can also set up site licenses; contact us for more information.)
We ask you send us your name, title, name of organization, type of organization (e.g., church or religious organization, charity, school, university), mailing address, whether the organization is a registered 501©(3) and whether you’re buying it for yourself or a third party. To make it easier for us to verify your status, we encourage you to send your information from an email address at the domain name associated with that organization.
After we check that you qualify, we can send you a coupon code to be used on our online store.
Address: support@karelia.com
Thanks, druid.
I’ll look into it.
I used Freeway Pro to do the Limestone Hills a few years ago (shudder: there are still “pages in preparation”), and I would recommend it as tool for anyone coming from graphic design programmes like Quark Xpress or Indesign. Uses the same techniques to build the pages, and is very flexible. However…
I also run two blogs. One, On The Farm, started out as a Tinderbox/Flint effort, but is now migrating (slowly) over to Wordpress. The other, Hot Topic, a blog supporting my last book, is what got me started on Wordpress in the first place. I am now thinking about using Wordpress for the main Limestone Hills site, using a forthcoming theme from the designer of the two themes I currently use (Chris Pearson). There are so many plug-ins for Wordpress, and such a large developer community, that I reckon I can do almost anything I want. It’s far more than just a blog tool…
Pip pip!
I use Adobe Creative Suite 4.
The features that tie the programs together make all the difference in the world.
I’d like to vote for BBEdit.
The other two I’ve tried recently were Coda by Panic and TextMate.
For me BBEdit is a clear winner.
Coda is very neat but the implementation of RegEx in the Find/Replace was imho very poor and so to do most things I would open the file in BBEdit.
TextMate is very ingenious and likeable, but not scriptable with AppleScript and built very much for those that use keyboard short-cuts exclusively.
I’m not very good with keyboard short-cuts, I forget them all the time, so with BBEdit I like the palettes. It is so easily customisable using Text factories, clippings and scripts and each of these has very well designed palette.
Like so many good things there is so much to BBEdit that I could only scratch the surface here.