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HTML and Editors
HTML Editors
Next time you are browsing the web, select Source from the View menu. It appears to be a mess at first glance, but it is essential for the formatting of your web-page. That code is called HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. If you don't want to learn HTML from scratch, you can download various HTML editors to make your life easy. Some of these 'plug-in' to your existing software, some are stand-alones.
- A program which has received positive feedback is Arachnophilia. It's homepage can be found at Arachnoid.com.
- HotDog is a stand-alone HTML editor, currently in it's fifth
edition. If you don't want to have to deal with the HTML you can use
HotDog Express. It's homepage can be found at SausageTools.com.
- One of the variants of Netscape, Netscape Communicator, comes with its own built-in editor, called Composer. Download it from Netscape.com.
- HoTMetaL has been recommended by others as the best HTML editor available. Current Versions support every HTML tag known at the moment. You can download it from SoftQuad.
If you want to find out more about HTML, visit The Bare Bones Guide to HTML at Werbach.com.
Important points
One thing to remember while writing your pages: our server is UNIX, which
is case sensitive, i.e. if you refer to a file within in your HTML in
CAPITALS and the filename is lower_case, it won't
find it. For the sake of convenience, please consistently refer to
everything in lower case, and make sure the files are named
in lower case.
Please note, that if you are going to use Netscape to transfer your files, you may have to refer to them in upper case.
Also please don't include spaces in your file names, as Netscape does not support this very well, and spaces in filenames are not supported under the HTML standard.
