Web Designer

[christian.posta]

I do most of the html code for my django templates in PyCharm and just
write the code by hand. I've been evaluating WYSIWYG html/web
designers recently (Dreamweaver). But, I find myself using the 'split'
mode of Dreamweaver where I write the code and watch the auto-updating
visual editor. But i don't want to switch to a different code editor
since i'm very comfortable with the keyboard shortcuts and
autocompletion I get in PyCharm.

Do most people who write the templates/html code for django apps
primarily write some code, jump to a browser and refresh? Or write the
static content using a full-blown designer and then break it up into
django templates? I would be grateful for any ideas....
Thanks!

[Markus Gattol]

I'd say most people us a simple text editor such as Vim, Emacs... If you use runserver and and your browsers auto-reload for that tab then that's all you need. If you want to be a bit speedier then you can use things like Sass/Compass for your CSS and maybe HamlPy for your HTML. Both have "watch" commands that watch your .sass/.haml files and automatically create the .css/.html which would then be picked up be runserver which in turn gets reloaded by your browser's tab for which you set the autoload toggle.

for HTML

 - https://github.com/jessemiller/HamlPy

for CSS

 - https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass (is written in Sass)

 - https://github.com/nex3/sass

[Sushirod]

For Mac I use coda and for Windows I realy like Notepad++.

As far as WYSIWYG editors go I`ve never seen one that`s better than
Dreamweaver, wich I`d say it`s not that wysiwyg at all. To be honest
there's no such thing as a WYSIWYG, I think its just a marketing term
that propose a software with a very junky visualization of what your
are doing.

The real deal it's to experience the code rendered in browser (try to
use all of then for production purpose). That`s how your user will
experience it.

I`d also say that vi (or vim) are realy good to work "in server" via
the SSH, I use it sometimes before going to production.

Make good use of plugins such as firebug (firefox) and the google
chrome code inspector.

[Sushirod]

Good sugestions, I`ll take a look at this!

[Andre Terra]

Please refer to our recent thread with suggestions for development environments. There's enough there already to get anyone started.

On the web: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/django-users/ZwVHa0jBRrY/Fq-jCVxrK7AJ


Cheers,
AT

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[Joseph Slone]

What!!! Nobody is using vigor anymore?

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