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That was a blast from the past. I can’t remember exactly but I think I went Frontpage -> Dreamweaver -> Notepad++ -> Sublime -> VSCode and obviously the other tooling only grew to be more complex (whilst improving sanity). I’m not sure I long for the days of plesk + cPanel etc but I hadn’t thought of all of that nonsense for years. A very different time!

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Yeah, for me it was HoTMetaL Pro (1994), then moved to Frontpage in 1996 and Dreamweaver in 1998...

For me it was an Atari Falcon030 with some text editor I can't remember the name of open in one window, and the browser (CAB?) open in another window. When I saved the editor, the browser updated the view without me having to switch windows. Very handy for tweaking.

I was forced to use Frontpage a few times but it was so cumbersome when you were used to programming so I gave up fast and went back to text editors. PSPad and Netbeans lately.

I went (iirc): BBEdit -> Netscape -> Claris Home Page -> PageMill -> NetObjects Fusion -> HomeSite -> ColdFusion Studio -> Coda -> Sublime Text.

I'm thinking of trying Panic's Nova next, but I'm really invested in ST.

I really want to buy Nova out of love for Panic, but realistically probably won't use it much.

I think my path was more like...

GoLive Cyberstudio -> BBEdit -> Dreamweaver -> BBEdit -> TextMate -> BBEdit -> Coda -> BBEdit -> Sublime Text -> BBEdit -> Atom -> BBEdit -> VS Code -> BBEdit

I keep trying to change but BBEdit still, to this very day, keeps doing exactly what I want. So I just keep coming back to it.

In my first edit I had a couple more BBEdits in there. Especially in the very early days it was the aspirational programmer’s editor.

For me it was FrontPage -> Dreamweaver -> Notepad++ -> Spend a month or so dabbling with full IDEs (like netbeans, eclipse, VSCode, etc.) -> Go back to notepad++ -> And recently trying Geany (for cross-platform convenience). My favorite back in the day was dreamweaver (warts and all)...but we're talking circa 2000 ~ 2005. Ah, those were the days! :-)

For me it was Netscape Navigator -> Frontpage Express (?) / Frontpage -> Dreamweaver. Firebug was also an awesome tool.

you mean Netscape Composer? :)

Yeah, that's the one!

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