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visThis is a comparison of the most popular web editors for HTML/CSS.

Webpage Creation

Creating a website for your business can be as simple as signing up with a social networking site and selecting a few account options. Creating an effective website that will draw and retain customers to your company, however, requires careful consideration and planning long before the first Web page is put online. It is important to have a visually appealing website, but there are many other requirements for creating a site that visitors will want to return to and share with others.

Adobe Brackets

Adobe Brackets will discontinued in September 2021.

Editors

In hindsight, an HTML editor is used to write the foundation of a website. And while any text editor can do the job, it doesn’t mean you have to do it without any help at all. Added functionality, error checking, and all-around a more intuitive editor is something that can ease your life significantly. The very fundamentals of HTML editors are the same; they help you write code by highlighting syntaxes, insert commonly used HTML elements and structures as well as providing autocompletion.

Text using an HTML editor can also be translated to other languages such as CSS, XML, or JavaScript. But as we know, not all things are created equal. Some editors might be easier to use while some provide more functionality than others.

Paid versus Free

Is it worth it to pay for a code editor? There are reasons to get the paid version which include support from the software maker and frequent updates.

Dreamweaver

Developed and managed by tech giant Adobe Inc, Adobe Dreamweaver CC is a premium, powerful, and versatile tool. It caters to both back-end and front-end development. As a closed-source software, Dreamweaver is designed to work within the Adobe ecosystem. Adobe also provides support, plugins, and features to make sure you will always code seamlessly.

Dreamweaver is one of the editors that support both textual and WYSIWYG methods. So, you choose whether you want to code with a live visual presentation or go the classical way.

History

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Inc. It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for the macOS and Windows operating systems.

Visual Studio Code

This multi-code free HTML editing tool comes ready to go with a large range of customizable features. It prides itself on its smart autocomplete and other intelligent syntax responses. Visual Studio Code is a multi-language and multi-platform program. Its development environment works hand in hand with HTML, Python, and other popular programming languages.

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It is also compatible with Microsoft Azure which makes for easy deployment and numerous extensions.

Web Storm

Use the full power of the modern JavaScript ecosystem – WebStorm has you covered! Enjoy the intelligent code completion, on-the-fly error detection, powerful navigation and refactoring for JavaScript, TypeScript, stylesheet languages, and all the most popular frameworks.

Brackets

With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers.