What software do you use when writing your content?

[Dr.Marie]

This may seem a dumb question, but when you guys are writing content for your sites what program do you use to write the content in? I have a Mac and I use either Pages or Google docs, but I find that when I copy and paste that info into my file that I am using html in I get question marks in place of all of the quotation marks.

I'm sure there is an easy fix for this.

[tstolber]

Ah, the reason for the is your character encoding. You need to either change your character encoding or use the correct ASCII code for the symbol. For example Ascii Table - ASCII character codes and html, octal, hex and decimal chart conversion

Depending on some browser settings and the character encoding used you will either display the character or a question mark. It is best to use the correct ASCII codes such as

%

for the % sign. (had to wrap the ASCII code in code tags - otherwise it marked it up correctly as a percet sign - irony!

I use either a plain text editor, Google Docs, and more recently I just use Codey.co and FTP on the fly in the cloud.

[Test-ok]

...word...
That post made me feel like one of the younger generation

[EGOL]

I write in DreamWeaver.

Why?

I want to see the "look" of the text on the page and how it positions with images, headings, ads, related boxes.

Also, seeing a product coming to form makes me work harder.

[Jocelyn]

Just copy from your application to notepad, then copy it from notepad and paste it where you want. Notepad will make the code standard.
Well, that's what I do... and it works fine.

[fathom]

Just copy from your application to notepad, then copy it from notepad and paste it where you want. Notepad will make the code standard.
Well, that's what I do... and it works fine.

Absolutely agree with this... actually download the free version of Textpad as it is much more robust that notepad.

[Dr.Marie]

Ah, thanks guys. I believe I tried doing this before with Text Edit which is the Mac version of Notepad, but it didn't work. I'll try downloading Textpad.

[Paul-Ninja]

Markdown came up in a meeting the other day at work. I have been meaning to look into it a little more. There is a a small learning curve with markdown but if you know html then I'm sure you will be fine.

[truminspiron]

So i always use Microsoft Expression Web 2 for my website and my blogger

[ALorenzo]

I write a lot of stuff in Komodo Edit. Pretty similar to Notepad++ but it has some features better suited to coding (including opening/saving files directly to your server if need be)

[abhinavkumar123]

Notepad which have i been using for many years

[markmiller988]

I use Notepad and Dream Weaver. I think both are very comfortable for everybody.

Thanks
Mark Miller

[espisint]

I used always ms word 2010.