Web Development Software

[AverageHardware]

I've recently begun to learn HTML and CSS, but am still unfamiliar with software regarding website design.

 

What are some nice IDEs to code HTML/CSS? Preferably free.

 

Thanks!

[Brenz]

Notepad++ would be your best bet for totally free.

 

Personally I prefer Sublime Text though which does have an unlimited free trial

[Art Vandelay]

Visual Studio community edition is alright.

 

If you are going to a university and have access to dreamspark, see if you can get Visual Studio 2010.

[tangra]

Sublime Text editor is really nice.

 

http://www.sublimetext.com/2

 

Its multiplatform and fast. If you are under windows only, Webmatrix 3:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

[Jeroen1322]

I use Notepad++, Sublime Text 2, PHPStorm and have used Visual Studios.

[vorticalbox]

Visual Studio community edition is alright.

 

If you are going to a university and have access to dreamspark, see if you can get Visual Studio 2010.

I have access to it, it's amazing the stuff you get on there for free lol.

 

Also everyone here is forgetting browsers I use chrome most of the time so thats my go to for testing. You can inspect element (right click) and edit html right in the page and see it change in real time. very good for making changes just to see how it reacts. 

[Art Vandelay]

I have access to it, it's amazing the stuff you get on there for free lol.

 

Also everyone here is forgetting browsers I use chrome most of the time so thats my go to for testing. You can inspect element (right click) and edit html right in the page and see it change in real time. very good for making changes just to see how it reacts. 

If you want to have a code backend or anything, Google Chrome isn't the best thing to use. If you're just doing a static HTML website, it's probably enough.

 

Is there a way to change the CSS files in Google Chrome easily? I don't really remember, but there was some browser I was trying to use that couldn't do that.

[Ganz]

As others have stated, I would definitely look into Visual Studios. Even the free version has many great tools for both the beginner and experienced web developer.

[AverageHardware]

Thank you all for your replies!

 

I have access to dreamspark and VS2013, and I've also used Notepad++ and Sublime Text for other languages in the past.

 

I've found a program named "Brackets" created by Adobe. It has support for live preview, which I really like.

 

http://brackets.io

[vorticalbox]

If you want to have a code backend or anything, Google Chrome isn't the best thing to use. If you're just doing a static HTML website, it's probably enough.

 

Is there a way to change the CSS files in Google Chrome easily? I don't really remember, but there was some browser I was trying to use that couldn't do that.

Not really, I only really use it for editing items like divs, images and so on. testing sizes and how that looks.

 

I use xammp as my webserver, my college course is having a lot of PHP and its driving me mad. I want to do more than just web based PHP/mysql rubbish.