Html Editors Explained And How To Choose One
A Professional HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and it's the most dominant markup language on the web. Fact is that you can write the HTML code of a given web page without using anything else than a simple text editor such as Notepad in Windows. This option though is feasible only for the top HTML experts who are really familiar with the rules of this language. In fact, some of the best web designers that I know claim that all they need to create a good looking web page is a text editor. While this is absolutely true, the rest of us (not HTML gurus) can really use a professional HTML editor, because of all the convenience and added functionality it has to offer.
Web development has evolved over the past years, so now we are witnessing a large number of programming languages specifically created for designing web sites. Technologies such as CSS, XML, JavaScript and ECMAScript have already made their way on the web development scenery, hence it's a good idea to choose an HTML editor that allows to edit not only HTML, but also all these related technologies. Generally, HTML editors are divided into three categories - text, object and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors.
Text HTML editors are the most basic applications which typically provide only syntax highlighting, code checking and validation and spell checking. This makes such editors suitable for developers that have a very good understanding of HTML, know the tags and other web technologies like CSS and JS.
Object HTML editors on the other hand provide additional functionalities, such as the option to edit source text of objects in a visual manner, rather than writing the entire code by yourself. WYSIWYG HTML editors are perhaps the best type of all and are perfect for people who are just making their way into HTML or even professionals who like using the extra features and options. Such 'What You See Is What You Get' HTML editors provide an editing interface which looks just the way the web page is going to appear in a web browser, so you can edit every element on the page directly, without even knowing a single HTML tag. This makes the entire process of web design faster and easier. Of course, they also allow you to directly modify the HTML code. CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007 is the most downloaded HTML Editor on the Web since 1996. This is a WYSIWYG type of HTML editor and allows you to just Drag and Drop Images and Text and create pages without knowing HTML. You can go back and forth between the Code and Visual Editors. It also has Built-in FTP Uploading and easy to use Table, Frame, Font, and Form Designers. Adobe Dreamweaver previously known as Macromedia Dreamweaver is another extremely popular HTML editor, originally created by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe Systems, after Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. This is also a WYSIWYG editor, perfect for non-coders. A disadvantage of this software is that it produces pages that are much larger in size than they should be, so web browsers will require more time to download them. Another critic is that some auto-generated code doesn't comply with W3C standards.
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