Originally Posted by Robson Now bear with me with this one...assuming you know how to code pefectly well, to all relevent standards and have a sound grasp on the principles, why would you still bother to handcode sites in notepad as opposed to speeding up the process in an edtior like dreamweaver? Does dreamweaver not produce standard complient code?

i have only used notepad when i was learning some PHP stuff or following some type of tutorial. i use dreamweaver, but most of the stuff i do in dreamweaver is typed, it makes things easier with the autocompletion stuff such as when you start to type <d it puts <div></div> etc. plus having features such as search and replace, code formatting, etc makes dreamweaver even nicer if you care what your code looks like