[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Instar:
...This may sound crazy but I have started using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to edit HTML pages. The code it makes is amazingly clean for an WYSIWYG editor, and you can flip between source and design quickly...

That's nice to hear since I just got my Version and have yet to install it - all 7 CD's worth! I admit it; I'm a FrontPage user but I use it primarily to maintain sites and structure and rely very little of FP's WYSIWYG or 'bot capabilities. I write all my DB conn's by hand, etc. but FP does have some nice plug-in capabilities that do come in handy for 3rd party add-ins.

I got VS.NET 2K3 Pro primarily to assist in build COM objects for .NET since I'm needing to port many of my "things" to Data Grids, etc. (You got it for free! I paid $511 US for it!!!)

And to all those "hardcore" HTML writers that insist on using only notepad (and you know who you are .. ), I do agree NotePad (or even vi for you old-time UNIX afficionadoes) has its place and will never leave my toolbox. Sometimes a basic text editor and a good grasp of HTML just can't be improved on.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your point of view, MicroSoft still does a few things OK once in a while; in fact, somethings are downright easy and good... Not ALL things but SOME things. I just seem to get a lot more work done lately using MS products (and I have tried many other products and platforms - been doing this since '81 which is pre-Windows!!!)

...and of course what will says about the business world being MS-oriented. It would be nice if I could do my own thing with my own "free" tools, but working in the business world, I do have to interface with said world. Hence the MS bag-o-software...

Just my $.02