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)

Below are some other text editors that you may wish to try out.

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/

FCKEditor
http://www.fckeditor.net/

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