[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Meh, I know my way around the template system fairly well, its never bothered me editing it via admincp

I have no doubt you know the template system like the proverbial back of your hand. I just don't see how anyone could possibly want to use the ACP to edit templates, when they could be using an 'intelligent' HTML/CSS editor instead, and never have to touch the ACP.

IDE's or even basic code editors provide all kinds of nifty support for editing HTML/CSS, like attribute completion, syntax checking, pretty printing, complex search / replace, code snippets, macros, etc. If you have a good IDE (or just install WinMerge), it will also handle diff'ing and merging, making vB upgrading a snap - upgrade, use ATC to dump everything in Master and any customized styles in separate directories, do a "directory diff and merge" in your editor / WinMerge, done.

I just don't see why anyone who does anything like any serious template editing wouldn't want to take advantage of all that.

-- hugh