If you find that your programming development tool doesn't exactly make life easy for you, you may be pleasantly surprised by RJ TextEd. It's basically a web development tool and a Unicode text editor which aims to make HTML coding simpler, faster and more intuitive.

Some of the key features are syntax error highlighting, auto completion and a very handy CSS editor. One rather unusual feature is that RJ TextEd includes an FTP client that enables you to get your coding published super quick although it's not exactly an advanced client and if you need secure connections, you're probably best not to rely on it.

For those that are relatively new to coding, another handy feature is the HTML validation tool which allows you to format and repair your code using wizards. Finally, it also includes spell checking, e-mail support and advanced search options. The remarkable thing is that this is all entirely free although the downside is that it won't support all coding languages so if you frequently use different ones, you'll need something more flexible.

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This is a template-based WYSIWYG application for developing Flash-menu headers and Flash-based Web sites without the need for coding.

Using A4Desk and its template gallery, you can build Flash menus and Web sites in minutes with only a few mouse clicks and keystrokes.

Its other features include background sound support, the switching of background and border colors, and the uploading of images for sub-pages and for changing Flash display sizes.

For those who'd like to get into Flash design but are intimidated by the technicalities, this is the perfect way to get started.

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Simpedit could be taken as a simple Windows Notepad replacement, but it's really more than that. It's a complete coding editor with support for a handful of programming languages.

The program does keep the same simplicity as the Notepad, but only in appearance. When working with source code, you'll have a wide selection of tools at your fingertips. Besides the basic edition options (copy, paste, search, replace) you'll get special options for optimizing the management of HTML source code, working with online forms and more.

Simpedit makes coding more comfortable thanks to a highlighted cursor line and the use of a color code for different programming languages, although this one is not automatically applied and you have to select it from the Tools menu. As extra features, Simpedit has an "Autocorrection" option and can encrypt your code with the Twofish method.

Simpedit is a simple yet very handy source code editor with support for a wide selection of programming languages.

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Create customizable DHTML popups for your website without the need to write a single line of javascript/DHTML code, using an intuitive interface and a range of templates. DHTML popups are the wave of the future for websites and content sites and Advanced DHTML Popup is the technology leader for DHTML popup design. Join the hundreds of web developers that have used Advanced DHTML Popup for their web design needs.

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EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit Text editor, HTML editor and Programmer's editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for web designers and programmers. Syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and VBScript is included.

There's a seamless Web browser for previewing HTML pages, and FTP commands for uploading local files to FTP server. Other features include HTML toolbar, user tools, line number, ruler, URL highlighting, auto-completion, cliptext, column selection, powerful search and replace, multiple undo/redo, spell checker, keyboard shortcuts, and more.

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UltraEdit-32 is a text and hexadecimal editor. It includes column-mode editing, CR fix-up, insert and overstrike modes, drag-and-drop support, bookmarks, font selection for view and print, complete macro support, pop-up menus, numbered lines, tab settings, automatic backup, a spelling checker, and conversion from DOS to Unix file types.

UltraEdit-32 also supports HTML Tidy, contains a sort option in the function list, supports group projects, and more. Files greater than 4GB are supported. Back/Forward functions take you to the previous place you edited, scrolled from, or jumped to. It works across multiple files. Some new features in version 11.0 include an enhanced configurable menus/toolbar support, CSS Style Builder, enhanced color selector, HTML toolbar, and syntax highlighting for multiple languages in a single file.

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CoffeeCup VisualSite Designer is a WYSIWYG Website Creator and Editor that helps you make Web pages with no experience or HTML knowledge.

Just drag and drop images or text on the page until you like what you see, and then upload to your Website. VisualSite Designer comes with over 70 Web Page Templates to start you off and you can make Websites with multiple pages, text-fields, graphics, animations and more. Create pages with your own images or use the built-in button and background creators to make every step a breeze.

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Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This is what Notepad++ has to offer:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmarks
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

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Writing PHP code and testing it on-the-fly can be a real hassle but this offering from DzSoft promises to ease the pain of coding by acting as a virtual server that can process code and display the results.

DzSoft PHP Editor is primarily a code editor, and includes the majority of features that you’d expect from this type of software. However, while most rival code editors tend to generalize, offering syntax highlighting for a multitude of languages PHP Editor is specifically tuned to the needs of web programmers who are working with the Hypertext Preprocessor language. Evidence of this can be found in the inclusion of common code and functions libraries and the ability to run and preview your work.

At first glance the program doesn’t appear to have a particularly intuitive interface. The design wouldn’t be out of place in Windows 95 and the main editor window is a typical reproduction of Notepad with each line numbered for easy reference. What appears to be a navigation bar on the left offers some hope of functionality, and once you get stuck in to coding it really delivers. The explorer bar tracks everything and records the location of each include, function, variable, and class you use. Should you wish to specifically save a reference point you can add up to nine bookmarks, although you can’t assign names to them - an addition that would have helped clarify what function each snippet serves.

To use the run and preview feature you must install PHP on your PC, a simple operation when compared to setting up your computer as a server that can process PHP. With a syntax check also included, this tool comes highly recommended to anyone that will be writing significant bodies of PHP. DzSoft PHP Editor may be a little rough around the edges, but with its outstanding functionality, that can be forgiven.

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LopeEdit is a powerful programmer's editor and a replacement of Windows Notepad. It has tabs to select between open files, supports syntax highlighting of multiple programing languages (C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, C#, CSS, Pascal, Perl, PHP), incorporates build-in hexadecimal editor, some util docking windows (File Browser, FTP Browser, Favorites, Projects Manager, Multiple Clipboards, Code Templates Manager, ASCII Table, MS-DOS console).

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The problem with Windows Notepad is that it has to be the most limited text editor ever created - you can do little more than cut and paste.

The one good thing about Notepad however is that it's incredibly light - whatever the speed of your PC, you can use and open it in literally seconds. EmEditor attempts to combine the best of both worlds by providing a highly functional text editor that's also very lightweight. You could say that EmEditor is a good compromise for anyone looking for a something in between MS Notepad and MS Word. It's more than that though because it's also a coding environment for programmers so it serves two functions in one. It supports several languages including CSS, JSP and TeX. In addition to fairly basic text formatting tools, it also includes more advanced features such as macro support, encoding support and an excellent search tool. There's also a handy print preview feature for anyone that's planning to use it for printing. All this and more including tabbed editing, syntax highlighting and it's able to handle very large files unlike MS Notepad.

An excellent all round editor although it can be prone to crashes when handling Rich Text and when performing advanced formatting features.

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Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface, similar to that of the most popular commercial browsers. With such an interface, users do not need to know the HTML or CSS languages.

Features of Amaya include the following:

• Lets users both browse and author Web pages
• Maintains a consistent internal document model adhering to the DTD
• Is able to work on several documents at a time
• Helps authors create hypertext links
• Includes a collaborative annotation application
• Is easily extended

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Create your website and have it up and running on the Internet in just 4 steps presented in this overview of TOWeb.

To create your first website you need to enter its title and select the main interests you would like to start with. You may decide to start with a couple of topics like a homepage or a blog for instance. Your website menu will automatically be created allowing your visitors to easily navigate and access to your topics.

There is no predefined graphical theme with TOWeb. With the TOWeb's random theme generator and its easy customization of graphical parts, you do not need to be a designer nor spend money and months on learning about web development and complicated graphical tools before to get a unique professional design.

In the last step of TOWeb you can quickly verify and remove the spelling mistakes of your topics before transferring your website to your host with just one click. Then notify your contacts directly from TOWeb so they can see your work on the Internet!

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One area of web design that many people find difficult and confusing is web forms. Those simple on-screen "fill in your details" forms that are so common yet can be difficult and problematic to produce.

Web Form Designer is here to help with that. You visually design on the screen, dragging about the various components to create an email form. And when you're done, you can easily produce the HTML code snippet ready to paste into your web page.

Web Form Designer can automatically validate your user's input - ensure the required fields are properly complete, and check that a valid email is input. Restrict input to alphanumeric, numerals only or just letters.

The program provides all the usual form elements such as Edit boxes, Drop-down menus, radio buttons and checkboxes, etc. You can automatically populate menus and lists with popular data, such as country, state or province.

With Web Form Designer, there are no restrictions on how many forms you produce, no monthly costs & free support.

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KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs.

KompoZer is based on Gecko which is the Mozilla patented framework that's behind many of their most successful products. The advantage of using gecko is that it's very fast, very reliable, and is maintained regularly by a dedicated team of programmers. It fully supports XML, CSS and JavaScript offering the best authoring platform on the market. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

In addition, there are some useful debugging tools in case of page formatting problems and some tools to help you automatically publish your changes to your FTP server.

An excellent WYSIWG portable editor that makes creating websites a pleasure.

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Minimum Profit is a very basic programming editor that lets you work with multiple files simultaneously, through a system of tabs, copying and pasting text blocks between them.

It provides colour code for the syntax of the most popular programming languages (C, C + +, Perl, php, SQL, Python, HTML, etc), completion labels and commands, automatic positioning of the code created (generating the margins required), a simple utility for search and replace amongst it's many features. The key to the program is simplicity - it's an ideal application for new programmers in particular. It has an easy-to-access help directory that you can reveal at any time simply by pressing F1 over any word of a text. The program "intelligently" assesses what kind of help you are probably looking for based on the code and brings up the appropriate file. Even for non programmers, the interface is easy to understand featuring drop-down menus and a simple list of hot keys. In addition to all these features, you can password protect your code, it's very light on resources and available in several different languages.

It might not be the most versatile programming text editor but it's certainly one of the easiest and intuitive you'll ever use.

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MyGeneration is a structured programming environment with the functions and options needed to plan and build scripts in C #, VB.NET, JScript, and VBScript using predefined templates and examples.

Developed in. NET MyGeneration is ideal for working in ORM architectures or other file-based O / R, as Gentle.NET or Nhibernate. It is compatible with Microsoft SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access, FireBird, Interbase, SQLite, VistaDB and Advantage. It also allows you to assemble code compatible with both Windows and other operating systems. By default, the environment includes a large number of templates to help you implement code in C #, VB.NET, PHP, HTML, amongst others and it allows you to establish database connections to test your developments. MyGeneration can also generate code for non-Microsoft operating systems and enables you to adapt it's own templates or write your own to generate your particular architecture.

In terms of a flexible cross language programming environment for scripting, this has everything you need.

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PSPad editor has been designed to allow editing several files at once in different programming languages. It's a very simple but powerful tool that allows you to work with several documents simultaneously in different tabs, save sessions, compare texts highlighting differences with colors, spelling and the use of code templates (HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl , etc..).

It also provides direct access to HTML tags, the preview tab in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, etc so you can see how things are going easily. It also contains a hex editor, an ASCII table, an internal browser with Apache, code explorer for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP.

For a free editor, this is an incredibly powerful and effective solution for any serious programmer.

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SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - one of its best uses is for building test and demonstration programs as well as SciTE and Scintilla themselves.

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PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor, designed to help you work within a variety of different programming platforms and build better applications both online and offline. The powerful program combines a series of top features with slick productivity.

The app is perfect for those people who:

• Work with various programming environments
• Like highlighted syntax in code
• Need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
• Want a tool to work with plain text
• Want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products

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