HTML Editor (Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft
FrontPage)
What
is a HTML Editor? A HTML editor assists the user in
writing HTML code for web pages. Although HTML code
can be written and edited with any text editor, a
special HTML editor is designed to be more convenient.
Additionally HTML editors generally provide some assistance
for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are
two flavors of HTML editors: text and WYSIWYG.
Text
Editors
The
text editors usually provide syntax highlighting,
toolbars and keyboard shortcuts for quick inserting
of HTML tags, assistants for some jobs or easy preview
in the browser. Assistants are usually provided for
more cumbersome tasks like adding the basic page construct
or creating tables. Text editors require at least
a basic understanding of HTML and CSS for creating
Web sites.
WYSIWYG
editors
WYSIWYG
(What You See Is What You Get) editors provide an
editing interface which looks the same way as the
output displayed in the Web browser. A WYSIWYG editor
does not require the user to have any HTML knowledge,
which makes it a lot easier for the average computer
user to create a Web site.
