Choosing a Creation Software

It is perfectly possible, as number of purists still do, to create HTML pages with a basic text editor like Notepad for Windows or Simple Text for Macintosh. Nevertheless, numerous software packages have been designed to simplify this task:

• Advanced text editors. For those wishing to edit their pages manually while taking advantage of valuable features such as syntax colouring (highlighting text with colours) and automatic indenting (spaces added at the beginning of a line to improve readability).
  
  
UltraEdit and Emacs are instances of this category.


• Non WYSYWYG editors. These are enhanced text editors that often provide a real time display of the input and wizards for partial coding or writing complete scripts.
  
  
Among others, Homesite and WebExpert 2000.


• WYSYWYG editors. What you need if you do not want to learn HTML. Growing ever more powerful by the day, these editors allow you to design pages almost entirely with graphical support. With the latest ones, you can build complete sites with scripts and animations.
  
  
To name but a few, Dreamweaver 3.0, GoLive 4.0 or Namo Web Editor.