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Text Editors and Software to Write ASP
When you are writing ASP there are many environments where you can do
your work. I use and recommend using Ultradev 4, other ones include
Dreamweaver 2 and 3 and Visual Interdev (though these can be a little
daunting for the beginner). There are many packages such as Interdev
which will assist you in writing code. This may make ASP easier to write
but I strongly suggest that you learn to write ASP yourself, in the
long run this will make it easier for you to debug.
Hand writing code will stand you in good stead and help you when you
come to debug your code, so learn to use a text editor like notepad
or wordpad and then move on to something that will speed up your coding.
The first site I ever made took an enormous amout of time, I wrote it all in notepad. Once I had learnt how to hand code I moved on to Dreamweaver. The same site to do now would probably take me a couple of weeks. Nevertheless I am still grateful that I used notepad and still have a soft spot for it!
Just one point, look out for editors that munch your code. I found
out that Dreamweaver couldn't cope with large amounts of ASP code but
worked fine with a few lines. Frontpage doesn't have many backers so
avoid it like the plague!
I now use Dreamweaver MX. (Updated, I now use Dreamweaver 8)
TextPad
http://www.textpad.com/
Ultraedit
http://www.ultraedit.com/
CuteEditor
http://www.cutesoft.net/ASP/
ASPExpress
http://aspexpress.com/aspexpress.asp
HapEdit
http://hapedit.free.fr/
http://www.fckeditor.net/
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