Text editor A good text editor is the heart of the hand-coding toolbox. You could use notepad or whatever plain text editor is bundled with your operating system, but there’s really no reason to settle. There are plenty of free alternatives with features to make hand-coding faster and easier. Windows – Notepad++ Hands-down the best editor for Windows. With syntax highlighting, auto tag completion, code folding, and much more, Notepad++ is a lightweight program with everything you need to code XHTML and CSS. Make sure you grab the TextFX plugin (built into newer versions) and the Explorer plugin (a nice file browser)... Read More