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The Lowdown on HTML editors
May 2014 Note: This page has not been reviewed since 2003!
Html editors come in a wide variety of sophistication.
Some attempt site management, some simply create pages.
- Xemacs
(Solaris
and other Unix's,
Windows)
- The venerable (but not particularly user friendly)
GNU product (public domain)
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BBEdit (Mac)
- ($119)
- QUEDM (Mac)
- ($60)
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TextPad (Windows)
- A powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. ($27)
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Castillo
TextEditor
(Windows)
- Another powerful, general purpose editor for plain text
files. ($30)
- HoTMetaL (Windows)
- One of the first html editors. Still going strong.
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HTML-Kit (Windows)
- A modular html editing environment with a large number of
contributed plug-ins. (basic version is Free)
Sort of WYSIWYG
- every browser renders differently
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DreamWeaver by MacroMedia (Windows, Mac)
- A strong editor, produces html that is
both valid and readable.
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MS Front Page (Windows, Mac)
- It includes site management, and is part of the USGS MS-Office
2000 procurement. There is a
product review of the
earlier version by Joseph Kalfsbeek of Anchorage, AK.
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Adobe GoLive (Windows, Mac), has replaced PageMill has
the Adobe corporate Web production tool.
- Unreviewed
There are a number of public domain offerings here, nothing has
been brought to our attention as being especially good. (we are
open to nominations)
For CSS editing, one tool is
TopStyle for Windows ($50).
- ease of use vs ...
- html integrity
- html readability
- fine level of user control
slide 44
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"Mastering a Web Site" online course
Created and maintained by
Lorna Schmid and David Boldt.
http://water.usgs.gov/usgs/training/webmaster/editors.html
Last modified: Fri Oct 17 11:14:42 EDT 2003
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