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Recommended HTML Editors
Macromedia
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This HTML editor is the most powerful and flexible tool for building, testing,
and deploying web content for Windows. Created for web developers, it is
appropriate for people who want full control over their coding and design
environment.
It's main features:
- Editing - access local and remote files, insert and convert files,
set bookmarks, automatically convert special characters. The
Extended Find and Replace command across multiple documents and with regular
expressions is a great tool that can reduce hours of manual editing to mere
clicks.
- Tag Inspector - edit HTML codes in a customizable property sheet
interface.
- Browsers - preview Web pages in multiple browsers, automatic
detection of installed browsers.
- Templates and Wizards - quickly create basic pages, tables, frames,
JavaScript and DHTML elements, and synchronized RealAudio content.
- Page Design - visually layout page elements for quick edits and
rapid prototyping. Convert content, such as lists and tables, from Microsoft
Word and Excel into equivalent HTML codes. Also has built-in integration
with Macromedia Dreamweaver to generate DHTML elements.
- Style Editor - easily create, edit, preview, and link Cascading
Style Sheets.
- Proofing and Testing tools - maintain site content with search and
replace, spell checking, code validation, and link verification.
Macromedia
Dreamweaver
This is the best WYSIWYG HTML editor on the market, available for both Windows
and Mac. It allows beginners and professional Web designers to:
- Insert text or images or set the values of lists, check boxes, input
fields, and other tag attributes without writing HTML codes.
- Bind objects on your page to dynamic content with a drag-and-drop
interface.
- Format the data any way you want it while working in the visual view.
Free HTML editors
Arachnophilia
This is a powerful HTML editor and web site workshop for Windows. Arachnophilia is
now being rewritten in Java, which means the new version (5.0) will run on any
platform that supports Java 2. It's main features are:
- Internal browser "Instant View" mode shows your HTML changes as
you make them.
- Interactive spell checker with 120,000-word dictionary.
- Accepts fully formatted text, tables, outlines from any Windows
95-compliant application, automatically creates HTML pages.
- Supports up to 6 Web browsers, switches between them in a flash.
- Supports development of HTML, frames, CGI, Perl, C++, Java and Javascript
with many intelligent tools and functions.
- Built-in FTP client automatically uploads changed files.
- Global search & replace across all open documents.
1st Page 2000
This is a professional HTML editor for Windows.
Quick overview of 1st Page 2000 features:
- Customizable Toolbars.
- 450+ Javascripts/VBScripts.
- DHTML Zone with re-usable DHTML scripts.
- Full support for SSI, CGI, Perl, Cold Fusion, ASP.
- HTML Source Compressor - Reduce Web page file size.
- Flash 4/Shockwave/Java/ActiveX Support.
- Includes over 20+ CGI/Perl scripts from Matt's Script Archive with
complete instructions on usage.
- Syntax Highlights Perl, CSS, HTML, CF, ASP, SSI, Javascript, CGI files.
- Instant Tag Help anywhere, anytime.
- Spell Checker.
HTML-Kit
This is a full-featured Windows HTML editor designed to help HTML, XML and
script authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish Web
pages. It's main features:
- Open, edit and save local and remote files online or offline.
- Color coding support for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP,
PHP, Perl, Java, Python, C/C++, Pascal files with customizable file
extensions.
- Extendable spell checker with multiple main and user dictionaries.
- The customizable "Active Preview" window to automatically
preview the current document as you type.
- Quickly preview pages in multiple external browsers. Internet Explorer,
Netscape, Opera, NCSA Mosaic, WebTV and Amaya can be automatically detected,
other browsers can be added manually.
- Context sensitive online help for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript and PHP.
- Validate documents using the graphical user interface for W3C's HTML Tidy
and view automatically corrected code in the output window for side-by-side
comparison.
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