With a text editor, it’s just a matter of time before you make a mistake, like typing instead of. Most web page editors are surprisingly similar, so this chapter helps you get started with your tool of choice, whether that’s Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web, or a nifty piece of freeware. You’ll also tour some of the better free and shareware offerings out there. In this chapter, you’ll learn how web page editors work and how to evaluate them to find the one that’s right for you. Fortunately, there are free alternatives for even the most cash-strapped web weaver. (Most Macs include a severely truncated editor called iWeb, which limits you to ready-made templates and doesn’t let you touch a line of HTML.) But if you want a full-featured web page editor-one that catches your errors, helps you remember important HTML elements, and lets you manage your entire site-you have to find one on your own. In fact, some older versions of Windows shipped with a scaled-down web editor called FrontPage Express. At one point, software companies planned to include basic web editors as part of operating systems like Windows and Mac OS. Professional web design tools can cost hundreds of dollars. The downside to outgrowing Notepad or TextEdit is the expense.
This is especially true when you tackle more complex pages, like those that introduce graphics or use multicolumn layouts. Even if you don’t, it’s hard to visualize a finished page when you spend all day staring at angle brackets. Try to write every paragraph, line break, and formatting tag by hand, you’ll probably make a mistake somewhere along the way. The average HTML page is filled with tedious detail. However, very few web authors stick with plain-text editors or use them to create anything other than simple test pages. To really understand HTML (and to establish your HTML street cred), you need to start from scratch. September 2011.In Chapter 2, you built your first HTML page with nothing but a text editor and a lot of nerve-the same way all web-page whiz kids begin their careers. I would suggest to replace the KompoZer with the BlueGriffon, since the first one has not been update more than year and a half, and last BlueGriffon update is from 30. It's free, easy to use, and updated regulary. It supports HTML5, XHTML and HTML autoring. Advanced users can always use the Source View to hard-code their page.īlueGriffon is developed by Daniel Glazman, the author of Nvu. T's free to download (current stable version is 1.2.1) and is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.īlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards.īecause Gecko lives inside BlueGriffon, the document you edit will look exactly the same in Firefox 4. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4, it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards. License: tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the GNU General Public License Version 2 and the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1.īlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.
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