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03/12/04

Survey Results

OK, time for some survey results. The scores are fairly accurate – give or take the odd distraction from Little Britain. Thanks to everyone for particpating!

App for comps:

( yeah, yeah, yeah, you all use paper and pencil first! ;o) )

Photoshop	44
Fireworks	37
Illustrator	10
Freehand	3
Gimp	3
Xara X	2

With 1 vote, Powerpoint , Quark Express 1 and MS Paint 1 (nice one John!)

Text Editor:

( Or ‘Code Editor’ – pedants! ;o) )

BBEdit	26
skEdit	20
Dreamweaver	16
SubEthaEdit	13
Topstyle	13
TextMate	13
Vim	12
Homesite	11
emacs	7
jEdit	6
Eclipse	4
Textpad	4
HTML Kit	4

With 2 votes were: Notepad, Smultron, Zend Studio, Scite, Crimson Editor, TextEdit , Editplus, Context.

With one vote were: TideText, HyperEdit, Syn, CSSEdit, EditPad Lite, SlickEdit, TSW Web Coder, Arachnophilia, Ultraedit, Notetab, Quanta, Omniweb, Code-Genie, Phase5, GoLive, KATE.

BTW: I’ve lots of suggestions for future surveys. I’m loathe to do them, as it would just get too tiresome, and these were the 2 subjects I wanted to know about. I feel I have to earn the right to do another lazy post, er, I mean survey.

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Tim Hanson Jr. said 1407 days ago:

Interesting results. Thanks!

luddep said 1407 days ago:

Argh, i forgot to participate.. still, always fun to view Results!

bradyj said 1407 days ago:

Someone actually uses Quark to layout webpages?! That’s funny, I thought that worthless feature was the final nail to switch to InDesign for print.

Vincent Grouls said 1407 days ago:

I haven’t participated either, as Photoshop, Illustrator and BBEdit were covered well enough already.

Also, I didn’t feel like contributing to your ‘lazy’ posts :P

So Jon, have you decided on picking up a new app for any of the two? ;-)

Jon Hicks said 1406 days ago:

Vincent – no, it hasn’t unearthed any application that I feel like switching to, more confirmed that I’m using the right apps for me. I will keep an eye on Textmate though, it could grow into something I want to use.

Always interesting to see what people use though!

John Oxton said 1406 days ago:

Jon, Despite my attempts to upset the results, this survey has been very useful for me also.

I work with a couple of graphic designers who just luurve illustrator and I struggle to see the point for site layouts.

I have convinced them to have a go with Fireworks/Photoshop: “well if it’s good enough for Hicks!”... horaah!

Pierce said 1406 days ago:

I started using Textpad after reading the comments in the survey. It’s just the lightweight text editor I’ve been looking for.

I must have taken you yonks to compile these results…

Rajan said 1406 days ago:

was just wondering, if fireworks really as good as photoshop?

Colin Ramsay said 1406 days ago:

I’d more more inclined to use Fireworks if its anti-aliasing wasn’t so bad compared to Photoshop. However, the latest version (MX2004) is very good for creating website layouts.

I think it’s a case of Photoshop for photos, Fireworks for the web.

#10

Julian said 1406 days ago:

I forgot to say that I’m using PHP Expert Editor foy my Codes.

#11

Mark said 1406 days ago:

Great survey results. I have to fire up VPC and try every one of these when I find some time.

#12

Barry said 1405 days ago:

No votes for Scintilla !?!? Not specifically for the Mac, but it does run under *nix as well as Win32 :-)

#13

Andrew Hume said 1405 days ago:

For extremely graphic intensive sites, then I do find photoshop to be a little more flexible – although my preferred choice is Fireworks.

Fireworks is powerful when laying out sites, and is intuiative and quick when it comes to exporting or slicing up graphics.

Hey, Vincent – we have similarly cuddly, furry gravatars! How nice.

#14

Sajid said 1405 days ago:

Hmm, I would have thought more people would have used Notepad, but it’s nice to see Fireworks quite prominently on the list. Would be interesting to see what most developers are using as their preferred server technology; I would imagine it would be between PHP and ASP.

#15

Jon Hicks said 1405 days ago:

Hey no more voting!!

Rajan – They’re 2 different tools for different jobs, but there is some crossover. I use Photoshop for image editing and montage/illustration work, and Fireworks for screen graphics.

#16

Greg Hinch said 1404 days ago:

Who is using Powerpoint to layout web pages?? That almost makes me scratch my head as much as when one of our clients sends text changes to his site as a powerpoint file. I guess some people just learn one program and stick with it. It was good to read all those glowing reviews of Fireworks, however. I have never tried it, been a photoshop man since v.4, Corel PhotoPaint before that, so it may be too late to teach me new tricks, but I’ll try anything once ;)

#17

Rob McMichael said 1403 days ago:

Nice one,

I have to thank you for your tip on skEdit, I have just finished my first site in it www.pixelbox.net/accessibility and must say found it great!

Thanks for the heads up

Rob

#18

Jon Hicks said 1403 days ago:

Thanks Rob – that’s good to know!

#19

Aaron Boswell said 1403 days ago:

I also have become a skEdit junkie thanks to your reccomendation. With the auto completion rivalling DW, even a visual designer like me can code from scratch and then preview in the browser of my choice. I wish they would get that multiple undo bug fixed, but it is not that much of a problem for me. The price comparison to DW has sealed the deal. I only wish I could pay less for FW and Flash and get rid of DW entirely.

#20

Dave said 1401 days ago:

I need a mac … ;)
I want to use BBEdit …

Ottima inchesta !!!

#21

Christiaan said 1399 days ago:

It’s really interesting to read these surveys and get an insight into other peoples work habits.

I just wanted to suggest another topic for a survey: Billing applications!

We can’t live / function / get paid without them and after evaluating quite a few today, have settled on iWork (Mac) – really just wanted to see how other people handle this…

ck

#22

Chris Ruzin said 1388 days ago:

I don’t know how I missed this survey, although I wouldn’t have changed any of the results. I use both Photoshop and BBEdit nearly every day, but I’ve been fiddling around with TextMate and skEdit lately. TextMate is already quite nice, but it looks to be even nicer in a couple months. And Transmit (my FTP client of choice) will support TextMate as an editor in its next release. All of this is making me lean towards TextMate as my editor in the near future.