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Web Editors - in general
As we have said repeatedly, one can use any text editor to write HTML. The HTML
code produced with simpler programs is not different from the HTML produced by
more complex editors.
More complex editors offer a number of advantages over simple text editors
(especially in terms of being able to work in a GUI or WYSISYG environment), but
such advantages are not without costs (difficult to learn, add lots of extra
code, may add proprietary information to your HTML).
We have been working with basic HTML code using
a simple text editor
like Notepad
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free editors
offer the opportunity to work in a WYSIWYG (Normal)
view, plus allow you to see the underlying HTML code for tweaking purposes
like Sea Monkey
or Nvu
or Amaya from W3C
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word processors
offer the advantage of an interface you may already
be familiar with
like MS Word
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sophisticated artistic and image manipulation tools
are best
for visual elegance
like Dreamweaver
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We will look at all of these. You will discover the one that works best for you.
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