Best HTML editor to build web forms?

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

What is the best HTML editor to build web application? What I mean is HTML editor that comes with a (relatively) comprehensive set of Form Object templates like radio button, HTML table (editable, like Excel), drop-down icon, etc, etc.

I've tried M$ FrontPage, but it doesn't satisfy me so far. I already have Windows version of Open Office (without JRE), but it doesn't come with a dedicated HTML editor (and building HTML page with OpenOffice Writer is quite a nightmare --it's a word processor anyway).

A friend of mine suggested Web Serif, but google search (whether using the keywords 'WebSerif' or 'Web Serif') has been fruitless so far. The best result I could get are this and this. Thus, I wonder whether the software called 'WebSerif' (or 'Web Serif') really exists; is there really such animal?

How about Mozilla Composer? Is that good enough to design Web Form?

Or maybe I should use PHP IDE like Eclipse?

Any suggestion?

[Destructionator XV]

I always just use my text editor and write it by hand. HTML isn't too hard to learn if you wanted to go that way.


Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express is a free download that might do it though:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

I always just use my text editor and write it by hand. HTML isn't too hard to learn if you wanted to go that way.


Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express is a free download that might do it though:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/

This is gonna' be a quickie actually, so I'll pick a GUI tool.

Maybe I'm gonna try the MS Web Developer Express. How about the resulting web forms, though? Are they gonna' be "IE-only" web forms? Furthermore, the coding will be done in PHP, not ASP. Will they be any problems?

[Destructionator XV]

PHP handles the logic; if you are going to just make the forms, that is in HTML, so the PHP/ASP/whatever doesn't matter.

The VS output is all W3C recommendations compliant. And there really aren't any such thing as IE only web forms anyway,

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

The VS output is all W3C recommendations compliant. And there really aren't any such thing as IE only web forms anyway,

I see. By the way, what does it actually mean when one says 'IE-only web page'? What kind of web elements that are browser-dependent?

[Destructionator XV]

I see. By the way, what does it actually mean when one says 'IE-only web page'? What kind of web elements that are browser-dependent?

Scripting mostly. Some javascript parts don't work on different browsers, and active-x scripting is a Microsoft technology.

There are minor differences in how tags and CSS are rendered, but if you stick to the simpler recommendations, this should not be an issue.

[Ace Pace]

Get what Adam reccomended, I've been using it the past 6 months, slowly creating more complex things. It rocks. The visual editor isn't the best for linking together things, you should tweak those manually, but it's fine except for that.