![]() ![]() This document is not a replacement for RTFM it is one man’s opinion on how BBEdit can be used to create HTML pages and manage websites using BBEdit. The online and PDF documentation that come with BBEdit do a great job of giving you an idea of what BBEdit can do, and how to use the individual features. If you don’t own a copy of BBEdit, you can download a free trial version, or get your feet wet with Bare Bone’s stripped down version, Textwrangler, which is free. You will even have the ability to create your own utilities, both through setting up work flows and through programming using a number of different languages. If an external program or utility would make your life easier, you are not locked into any specific one … you can choose whichever one you want. It’s no secret that anything man-made is a compromise, but with BBEdit, you give up the least for what you get, and you’ll be working in an environment that needs no external helpers for you to accomplish your tasks, unless you have external files such as images, PDFs, audio/video files, etc., and those almost always require an external program of some sort no matter what. The down side is that there are some features in Dreamweaver that are nice ( see the section on Dreamweaver), and some of the functions offered by WordPress and static site generators (TOCs, etc) you will have to handle manually in BBEdit. gedit and vim have steep learning curves, and while flexible and extensible don’t bring as much to the table as BBEdit. Komodo IDE is more than most persons need. In addition, each makes you add a bunch of plug-ins (which can be a really pain in the neck) to get a fraction of the features of BBEdit. Atom and Bracket and Sublime 2 and TextMate are like shiny objects for the easily distracted. Static site generators serve pages quickly, but offer you the developer no good way to check syntax or links, and you have two versions of your site on your disk. And, unless you have a great host, WordPress pages will load a lot more slowly than static site pages. WordPress, Movable Type, and Ghost require installing a lot of files, setting up a MySQL database, and constrain you in a million different ways in exchange for what it gives you. Rapidweaver makes it difficult to get to your code. The answer is simple: More control over your workspace and your end product, with easy access to a wide range of functions.ĭreamweaver wants to take over your whole screen. Why use BBEdit? Why not Dreamweaver or Rapidweaver? Why not WordPress or Movable Type or Ghost? Why not CodeKit or Hammer or Prepros? Why not Jekyll or Hugo or some other static site generator? Why not Atom or Brackets or Sublime 2 or TextMate or Komodo IDE? Why not gedit or vim?
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