Open Source Alternative to DreamWeaver?

Ranging God · **Posted:** December 11th, 2011, 9:17 am

Does anyone know a good alternative to DreamWeaver? I am starting to learn more about web dev and I wanted to use a tool. My University has DreamWeaver on their comps but the campus is closed over break.

Thanks!

Adbot · **Posted:** December 11th, 2011, 9:17 am

Mike · **Posted:** December 11th, 2011, 12:00 pm

Eclipse, Aptana Studio (based on Eclipse), or Netbeans.

There's also Notepad++ and Vim. They are a lot simpler which could be good depending on what you prefer.

I personally use Eclipse because it has a plugin with good support for SVN, and the auto-completion is very good at being aware of other files in your project. It can take a while to set up eclipse to how you like it though because there are so many options.

Ranging God · **Posted:** December 11th, 2011, 6:05 pm

Mike wrote:

Eclipse, Aptana Studio (based on Eclipse), or Netbeans.

There's also Notepad++ and Vim. They are a lot simpler which could be good depending on what you prefer.

I personally use Eclipse because it has a plugin with good support for SVN, and the auto-completion is very good at being aware of other files in your project. It can take a while to set up eclipse to how you like it though because there are so many options.

I use notepad++ I actually got DreamWeaver today, my friend had an extra copy.

Tal Ormanda · **Posted:** December 19th, 2011, 1:48 am

I installed Dreamweaver in a virtual machine, and when the trail ran out, I deleted the virtual machine and opened a new VM where it was never installed and ran it again.