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Posted by Gerhard Øpsen
Gerhard Øpsen
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Adobe Dreamweaver or other softwares?

Hi!

Do you recommend to use Adobe Dreamweaver for all coding languages, and are the most websites built with Adobe Dreamweaver? Which software is the best for coding websites? Does it support all coding languages? Which softwares does the professionals use?

And one last question: if I should code a Wordpress-website, which software / program should I be using then?

Best Regards, Gerhard Øpsen

1 Answer

Nick Trabue
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Nick Trabue
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Nick Trabue
Nick Trabue
Courses Plus Student 12,666 Points

It mostly comes down to personal preference. I'm not a huge fan of dreamweaver but I'm sure some people love it.

I'd say the text editors I hear about most frequently in no particular order are

  • sublime
  • atom
  • vscode

I've played with all three and right now I'm using atom. They are all highly extensible and allow for plugins which means that if it's a programming language, it is probably supported, if not by default someone probably has a plugin that will do syntax highlighting for you.

Professionals use many tools. I would say most of them have a preferred text editor and an IDE (integrated development environment) like virtual studio which typically do a better job understanding your code than a standard text editor. I've only personally used the full virtual studio for one project and it's usually overkill for the stuff I've been working on.

I haven't taken the wordpress course but I would start there and see what software (if any) they use outside of workspaces.