HTML Editor
by Does anyone know of or use a good free html editor that I could use here at my office? They want me to update the website, but they don't want to buy software to allow me to. I don't want to keep doing everything at home.
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Thanks again for your PSpad suggestion, Ian. It's working out really well. The html on my firm's website is really messy and difficult for me to understand, but I'm working on it. I completely broke a page this morning, called Donovan freaking out, then sort of fixed it. It's still not viewing correctly, but I've had chocolate, so I'm not freaking out so much.
I thought I could use the editor to view the specific page I was editing, make my changes, then resave it on the ftp, but the images were completely screwed up. I still can't figure it out, but Donovan was nice enough to offer to come down here after work and look at the code. I swear, I thought I was going to scream.
Just a tip for when you do changes, always save the new as a different name. So like if a mistake is made, at least the original is still intact.
I more than 99.9% of the time use notepad for html editing.
But, I actually found something on the web called textpad (haven't used this or d/l'd, but it can be found here) http://www.textpad.com
Thanks! I learned the hard way to save under a new name. :)
What type? Text editor, or WYSIWYG?
Oh man, I wish I knew the difference between those. I only taught myself html from a functionx tutorial. I'm basically just editing the code to add and remove links to an ftp.
Text editor is like notepad. you write the HTML, and there may be some nice shortcuts to aid you in typing up some of the code.
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get. you edit the page like you would a Word document, and it writes all the HTML for you
Umm, I think I'll go with the text. It'll be easiest for me to copy the code that's already on the site and then change it around. I'd rather see all the code so I have an understanding of what I'm looking at. Does that make sense?
good answer! give PSPad a try. http://www.pspad.com/en it's free
there's are some other great editors out there, but most are shareware
YEAH! I really thought about that before I answered. That program looks good. I'll have to download it and play around later this afternoon. Thanks!