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Becky Castle
Becky Castle
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Posted by Becky Castle
Becky Castle
15,294 Points

Does anyone recommend using Sublime? If so, is there a way to upload changes directly to your ftp account?

I've heard some good things about Sublime. However, I'm a little stymied by the lack of any easy ftp upload option. So what do you Sublimers do when you want to make live changes to your website?

Becky Castle
Becky Castle
15,294 Points
Becky Castle
Becky Castle
15,294 Points

Oooh! Thanks for the great feedback, everyone! I'll check out your suggestions.
You guys rock!

5 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
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Hi Becky, you may enjoy an editor more like the ones below. I think Aptana is available on Windows.

Becky Castle
Becky Castle
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Becky Castle
Becky Castle
15,294 Points

Hi Dustin, I'm just now making time to peruse these suggestions, and my first impression of Coda is "awesome!"
The Espresso editor, on the other hand, SEEMS a little cheesy (first impressions), and Aptana seems a little complicated. (I'm just ready to start coding.) What do you prefer out of this bunch?

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Honestly, I think Coda would be your best choice. Espresso hasn't looked very active for some time now, and I'm not sure if development for that has stopped or not. If you're looking for a full-fledged editor with many different features embedded, it sounds like you'd like Coda. There aren't any others like it that I know about. It's been around for a while, and before Sublime Text and TextMate, I think it was the editor of choice for a lot of web designers.

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Sublime Text is a pretty good editor, I'm not using any ftp plugin with it but I found two if you want to try :

Nicholas Soden
Nicholas Soden
5,308 Points
Nicholas Soden
Nicholas Soden
5,308 Points

One that i've used, and which works quite well, is FireFTP. It's an add-on for firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp/

Also, Sublime is great. Though it has a frequent popup that tells you to purchase it, if you haven't already. Though it's probably worth the price.

Another good alternative, and which is open source, is Brackets.

I've been enjoying it since it has a live Preview Button, and auto reload. Brackets is also been useful for me since the live preview button also kicks into gear a local server on your computer.

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Becky Castle, I don't want to take away from your learning with tools that claim to make things easier, but you might check out some of the ones below. Thought it was worth mentioning even though they are somewhat in a different class.

Innovative Web Design Tools

Becky Castle
Becky Castle
15,294 Points
Becky Castle
Becky Castle
15,294 Points

Thanks for that input, Dustin. I briefly checked them out, but I'm leery about using a program like these. (Maybe it's because I'm having so much fun using code; or maybe it's because I'm skeptical of being able to manipulate their code to do exactly what I want.) What do YOU use?

Thanks again for your input ;)

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

I've been using Brackets however it's slightly slower than other editors. My favorite right now is Atom, but it has a few quirks with speed also. If all else fails, Sublime Text works great, always has. If you go with ST, below are some tutorials for you, and I'd recommend version 3.

And when I mentioned the others had speed issues, I meant compared to these minimal new line of editors. They're fast, have multiple plugins and get the job done. So compared to Coda or Espresso, most likely they are faster because of the way they're made.