Good HTML editor for Non-Programmers

DCillusion · Sat 19/03/2005 17:59:06

What's a good HTML editor for people with no skill or experience in HTML.

Like AGS for Web pages?

Ishmael · Sat 19/03/2005 18:07:43

Frontpage Express, it's fairly simple, came with atleast older versions of IE... When I started doing HTML I found it very handy. I don't know where to get it nowdays, if it's not on your computer already.

edmundito · Sat 19/03/2005 18:10:47

Yeah, but you can't find that anymore by itself.... I'd say mozilla composer, which comes with the mozilla suite, but also learn some html because you always have to check on the code for screw ups anyway. I guess you can learn html as you see it being made by composer.

Paper Carnival · Sat 19/03/2005 18:35:13

Macromedia Dreamweaver is great, but expensive

Haddas · Sat 19/03/2005 21:15:35

notepad. I used it and learned a great deal. What I did, was go to different sites; simple. mediocre and advanced ones, and looked at their code. It's fairly simple to get what does what.

Ishmael · Sat 19/03/2005 21:28:07

Yes, Haddas, the right way IMO. But the question was after HTML editor[/] programs, and notepad is a kindof everthing editor...

BOYD1981 · Sat 19/03/2005 21:54:25

i seem to remember a few years ago there being a programme called Spider or something like that, it was very much like notepad but had coloured text and stuff.
no idea if it's still around though...

AGA · Sat 19/03/2005 22:11:32

Quote from: Ishmael on Sat 19/03/2005 18:07:43
Frontpage Express, it's fairly simple, came with atleast older versions of IE... When I started doing HTML I found it very handy. I don't know where to get it nowdays, if it's not on your computer already.

No! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Frontpage makes the crappiest, most bloated code ever. It takes a 1-page pure html doc and makes it take about 5 pages, mostly filled with unnecessary, MS proprietary code that won't work in non-IE browsers. Avoid.

Dreamweaver on the other hand makes beautiful code. Use that, or Notepad...

Ishmael · Sat 19/03/2005 22:14:21

Quote from: AGA on Sat 19/03/2005 22:11:32
Frontpage makes the crappiest, most bloated code ever. It takes a 1-page pure html doc and makes it take about 5 pages, mostly filled with unnecessary, MS proprietary code that won't work in non-IE browsers. Avoid.

Oh, sorry. I wasn't aware of that... teh version I had, 2.0 or something, made the code somewhat clean... Or maybe I just did SO basic stuff that it can't put in any ms-only crap...

AGA · Sat 19/03/2005 22:16:17

Well I mostly have experience with the full version of FP, maybe Express was less crappy. Either way, Dreamweaver rules

Ishmael · Sat 19/03/2005 22:20:16

I rarely use it as a reference tool... Like if I need to know how to make a for I want, I lay it out in FPE and copypaste the code. All extra stuff to handwritten code I've noticed FPE making is metatags in the <head> part.

edmundito · Sat 19/03/2005 23:47:50

Quote from: AGA on Sat 19/03/2005 22:16:17
Well I mostly have experience with the full version of FP, maybe Express was less crappy. Either way, Dreamweaver rules

FrontPage Express was a direct competitor to Netscape Composer, so it did really simple things without adding stupid overhead code. In fact, it just adds this:

Code: ags

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0">

(taken from my old sites)

Of course, you can't compare anything to Dreamweaver, but I think you could start learning HTML with something simpler than that...

Pelican · Sun 20/03/2005 00:41:25

Well, not too sure about the editor. I use HTML-Kit, but I'm an average programmer, and already have a rudimentary knowledge of html. However, I've found this book very helpful.

Barbarian · Sun 20/03/2005 00:53:47

A fairly good and fre Webpage Editor is "Trellian Web Page".
You can get more info about it over at:
http://www.trellian.com/webpage/index.html

Mr Jake · Sun 20/03/2005 01:20:27

It would probably be better in the long run to use Notepad and learn HTML, there are many useful sites such as:

www.sbrady.com/hotsource/html
www.webmonkey.net

and the classic google

HTML is pretty easy to learn.

Seleceus · Tue 22/03/2005 17:09:19

If, after reading all of the recommendations for learning HTML (to which I would also suggest), you are still looking for a simple editor, check out 1st Page at http://www.evrsoft.com. It's not WYSIWYG but, it's free, has three user modes (easy, expert, hardcore), and comes with a large bundle of scripts and plugins. I also would suggest TextPad, instead of Notepad, for direct editing. Shareware, but cheap.