Comments on: Aptana Studio…better than Dreamweaver, and FREE!

By: Vince Cutting

Vince Cutting — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:31:55 +0000

I must admit Aptana’s version 2 really let me down as well. The old version 1.5 worked perfect for me, but everything just fell apart in version 2.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:11:47 +0000

Since writing your review Aptana has come out with an all new and redesigned version 2.0. It does not deliver. All I truly needed out of the box was a code editor in which I could see well ordered html code with an accurate preview.

I downloaded and installed it on my Win7HP box. Starting with the installer it was quite pretty. I had high hopes.

I wanted to import some basic HTML code to get it formed properly before pasting back into my site’s CMS. The editor failed to parse the code AT ALL. Nor did the preview do anything except parrot the exact malformatted code, no interpreting whatsoever.

So I went to the help file. Surely I must be missing something. I could find little to explain this behavior. I did discover that the help article on setting up previews listed three possible previews, IE, FireFox & IPhone. Only IE is actually available. No FireFox preview is disappointing.

I must say I’m very disappointed. All the other 200MB of bells and whistle are useless without this very basic functionality working properly.

Of course, I could be missing something or doing something wrong. Hmm. No.

–Allen

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:44:14 +0000

Good review.

I’m newer to the whole area of creating my own sites.
Up to now have been using weebly, blogger and that sort but am into this business for good.

I want to build my own sites and have total control of everything.

You mentioned that there is no wizzy wig deal here with Aptana.
Hmmmm do I need it?
Some people say to do without a wysiwyg editor is to waste time, though they usually send me to an affiliate link, (bad marketers), so here I am a guy who will pick a niche, topic, what-ever and test with free and inexpensive methods, building and tweeking many small landing pages etc.

Then once I find a winner I will become a zealot and build a dense website, blog etc. for max. SEO etc. you get the picture.

At this point I am either scared of DreamWeaver or so tired of hearing about it…..

The way you describe Aptana it sounds like what I will need soon so I want it now to save time and braincells,… or would you suggest,…like the rest of the internet these days, embrace all things wordpress.

Anyway I’ve read a lot of reviews today yours is good.
thanks.

Brad

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:34:35 +0000

Michel, I’m agreed with you. Templates support will be added to Aptana (sooner or later, as it was stated at Aptana forums). Now this is the only thing that keep s me from switching.

By: michel

michel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:45:13 +0000

Okay, so how do I move a site from Dreamweaver into Aptana? How do you handle Dreamweaver templates in a different app? And how do you impliment template features (i.e. editable regions)in Aptana?

this keeps me from switching.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:03:16 +0000

Just downloaded Aptana Studio and I love it, If only all free software was to this high quality level.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:22:41 +0000

Thank you so much for letting me know about Aptana Studio. I was looking for something free as I couldnt afford Dreamweaver, and you were right…Aptana Studio ticks all the boxes. That’ll be another 5 out of 5 from me.