First a little history:

I first started programming using the MS-DOS Edit program while programming QBasic (I know, I should have learned C first, and I regret it!). Edit was the first text editor I ever used.

When I started writing HTML web pages, I used Microsoft's Notepad. It wasn't until many years later that WYSIWYG editors came out and made creating HTML pages as simple as writing a letter in Microsoft Word. I learned to use Macromedia's Dreamweaver when I started to manage hundreds of separate HTML files (Microsoft's FrontPage is crap!). A WYSIWYG editor is a godsend if you have lots of tables to work with. However, I've learned to use CSS styling in place of tables, so that doesn't even apply to me. Continue reading →