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Best web editor under $50.00 dollars

Dennis Kenney

2005-04-07, 11:21 pm

I'm looking for the best web editor under $50.00 WYSIWYG not an HTML editor.
I'm new to creating web pages for a business I'm starting. I've chosen
Yahoo to host the site but I'm a little apprehensive to use Yahoo Site
Builder because the pages it creates only works on Yahoo. I may want to
move the site some day so I'm looking for an editor that will be
independent. How would you rank:
Easy Web Editor,
WebDwarf,
WebPage Maker
Web Studio

What features are necessary for a service web site that does not sell
online.

Thanks for your opinion.

Dennis

tbone

2005-04-08, 7:37 am

I hated Web Studio. I'm now using Frontpage 2002 and it's so much more
user friendly. But try writing your own code if you can.

Tony

Dennis Kenney wrote:
> I'm looking for the best web editor under $50.00 WYSIWYG not an HTML editor.
> I'm new to creating web pages for a business I'm starting. I've chosen
> Yahoo to host the site but I'm a little apprehensive to use Yahoo Site
> Builder because the pages it creates only works on Yahoo. I may want to
> move the site some day so I'm looking for an editor that will be
> independent. How would you rank:
> Easy Web Editor,
> WebDwarf,
> WebPage Maker
> Web Studio
>
> What features are necessary for a service web site that does not sell
> online.
>
> Thanks for your opinion.
>
> Dennis
>
>

Adrienne

2005-04-08, 6:58 pm

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Dennis Kenney"
<islandmariner@joimail.com> writing in
news:115bolcruub6751@corp.supernews.com:

>
>
> I'm looking for the best web editor under $50.00 WYSIWYG not an HTML
> editor.

Trust me, in the end you will want an HTML editor, not a WYSIWYG. There
are many reasons, bloat, not compatible across different
browsers/platforms, harder to debug when there is an error, almost
impossible to use if you go with server side/database.

> I'm new to creating web pages for a business I'm starting.

That's a good thing, and you should start off on the right foot. Use
Strict DocType and do not use presenational markup. Put all your
presenational stuff in an external CSS stylesheet. This way, if you
suddenly decide that you want all the pages to have Christmas colors, you
won't have to go into each and every page to do so. It's a five second fix
instead of a three day fix.

You will also have been search engine results. Robots are much happier
when they do not have to go through a lot of presenational stuff, nested
tables, etc.

> I've chosen Yahoo to host the site but I'm a little apprehensive to use
> Yahoo Site Builder because the pages it creates only works on Yahoo.

Yahoo's Site Builder probably produces the _worst_ markup ever.

> I may want to move the site some day so I'm looking for an editor that
> will be independent. How would you rank:
> Easy Web Editor,
> WebDwarf,
> WebPage Maker
> Web Studio
>

None. Do this:
1. Go to http://www.chami.com/html-kit and download the editor.
2. Go to http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle and get either the lite version
(free) or the full version. Topstyle integrates with HTML-Kit for editing
stylesheets.
3. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/ and learn HTML (not that hard)
4. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/css/ and learn CSS (not that hard either)

Then bookmark these sites:
1. HTML Specification (has all the elements and attributes described
fully):
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
2. CSS Specificaton (has all the CSS properties fully explained):
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
3. Blooberry, good reference for HMTL and CSS:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/
4. CSS Zen Garden - what can be done with CSS
http://www.csszengarden.com/
5. The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines (2/3 of corporate
websites make these mistakes):
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html

> What features are necessary for a service web site that does not sell
> online.
>

See above #5

> Thanks for your opinion.
>
> Dennis
>
>

HTH

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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windsurferLA

2005-05-05, 4:18 am

I'm not as cheap and would easily pay $100 for web page editor... can
anyone recommend WYSIWYG web page editor other than Microsofts Front
Page. Macromedia's dreamweaver would be perfect, but it is $400.

Adrienne wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Dennis Kenney"
> <islandmariner@joimail.com> writing in
> news:115bolcruub6751@corp.supernews.com:
>
>
>
>
> Trust me, in the end you will want an HTML editor, not a WYSIWYG. There
> are many reasons, bloat, not compatible across different
> browsers/platforms, harder to debug when there is an error, almost
> impossible to use if you go with server side/database.
>
>
>
>
> That's a good thing, and you should start off on the right foot. Use
> Strict DocType and do not use presenational markup. Put all your
> presenational stuff in an external CSS stylesheet. This way, if you
> suddenly decide that you want all the pages to have Christmas colors, you
> won't have to go into each and every page to do so. It's a five second fix
> instead of a three day fix.
>
> You will also have been search engine results. Robots are much happier
> when they do not have to go through a lot of presenational stuff, nested
> tables, etc.
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo's Site Builder probably produces the _worst_ markup ever.
>
>
>
>
> None. Do this:
> 1. Go to http://www.chami.com/html-kit and download the editor.
> 2. Go to http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle and get either the lite version
> (free) or the full version. Topstyle integrates with HTML-Kit for editing
> stylesheets.
> 3. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/ and learn HTML (not that hard)
> 4. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/css/ and learn CSS (not that hard either)
>
> Then bookmark these sites:
> 1. HTML Specification (has all the elements and attributes described
> fully):
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
> 2. CSS Specificaton (has all the CSS properties fully explained):
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
> 3. Blooberry, good reference for HMTL and CSS:
> http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/
> 4. CSS Zen Garden - what can be done with CSS
> http://www.csszengarden.com/
> 5. The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines (2/3 of corporate
> websites make these mistakes):
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html
>
>
>
>
> See above #5
>
>
>
>
> HTH
>

Adrienne

2005-05-05, 7:32 pm

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed windsurferLA <buczacz@yahoo.com>
writing in news:EN2dnVhv3aTEO-TfRVn-1g@comcast.com:

> Adrienne wrote:
>

> I'm not as cheap and would easily pay $100 for web page editor... can
> anyone recommend WYSIWYG web page editor other than Microsofts Front
> Page. Macromedia's dreamweaver would be perfect, but it is $400.
>
>
>

Using a plain text editor has nothing to do with being cheap, it has to do
with good markup, separating presentation from content, development
(especially if you are going to be using a scripting lanaguage like ASP or
PHP where a WYSIWYG will wreck havoc), and believe it or not, ease of use.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
Please respond to the group so others can share