HTML Editor Reviews » Windows Software

Espresso 1.1 Released and TopStyle 4 Upgrade Sale

Eric — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:27:37 +0000

Espresso 1.1 (Mac)

MacRabbit’s HTML editor, Espresso (reviewed here), has been updated to version 1.1. The update includes a number of welcome additions and improvements:

Image Preview: View images from within Espresso without having to open a separate program.
Find in Project: Search through all the files in your project.
Open With: You can now open files in a different editor from within Espresso.
Project Organizer: View all your projects in a single window and select the one you want to work with (ala Coda).
Improved snippets, featuring shell scripts, nested placeholders, and full TextMate syntax.

This is definitely a worthwhile upgrade.

TopStyle 4 (Windows) Christmas Upgrade Offer

For the month of December, TopStyle 4 is 34% ($10) off for existing TopStyle 3 customers. The regular upgrade price is $29.95; the full price for new customers is $79.95.

WeBuilder 2010 Released

Eric — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:52:25 +0000

The first editor I reviewed here, Blumentals’ WeBuilder, just got an update. Here’s what’s new in WeBuilder 2010:

Improved text editor – updated text selection, undo and redo behavior
Improved Code Explorer with filtering feature
Improved Find and Find in Files
New CSS definitions – IE 8, FireFox 3, Safari, iPhone – be up to date
Greatly improved Project Publishing dialog
One-click publish all changes to web
Improved FTP and SFTP stability and compatibility
Auto complete for brackets and quotes
Improved Color Picker
PHP 5 object oriented programming support
Support for custom PHP libraries
Powerful JavaScript support
Internet Explorer 8 preview
Works with Windows 7
Improved performance and robustness
Countless other improvements and fixes

WeBuilder 2010 Standard Licence is $69.85 USD; Personal (non-commercial) is $49.85; and the Standard upgrade is $39.85.

Get ScreenSteps for 50% Off

Eric — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:29:58 +0000

ScreenSteps, my favourite app for creating documentation and user manuals, is on for half price today only. If you have a Twitter account, follow @screensteps and they’ll DM you a coupon code. If you’re already following them, DM them for the code. ScreenSteps works on both OS X and Windows and supports exporting to HTML, blogs, PDF, Word, and ScreenSteps Live. It’s amazing software with an incredible support team. Give it a try if you haven’t already.

TopStyle 4 Released

Eric — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:26:42 +0000

Great news for Windows users: TopStyle 4 has been released. There are a lot of new features, including:

Unicode support
Live FTP editing
Script Insight (i.e., code completion) for ASP (both JavaScript and VBScript), PHP, and ColdFusion
iWebKit, a simple and advanced development framework for iPhone (and iPod touch) webapp development.

TopStyle 4 is $79.95 USD for new users; $29.95 as an upgrade from 3.x.

Two New CSS Framework Tools

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:32:58 +0000

Boks is an Adobe Air application that provides a user interface for working with the Blueprint CSS framework. Boks handles the grid and baseline settings and then exports the CSS and HTML files.

For the 960.gs framework, which is what I’ve been trying out for the last little while, there’s a new jQuery plug-in called 960.gs grid overlay that does as the name implies — it overlays a semi-transparent 960 grid over your layout as you develop your site. According to the developer, there is also a bookmarklet in the works.