Using HTML editors

HTML editors are software that help create webpages by:

• Inserting the code for you.
• Allowing you to type in the code.
• Creating your webpage similarly to how you would create a document in a word processor – this is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor.

WYSIWYG editors

'What You See Is What You Get' HTML editors are very easy to use. Most novices start out with a WYSIWYG editor because you can get a new webpage up quickly. The biggest advantage that these editors have is that you don't need to know HTML to put up a webpage.

HTML editors

The two that would be most familiar to you are:

Microsoft^® Frontpage^®
Most school environments have access to this HTML editor. If you are familiar with Word then this will be easy to use.

Macromedia^® Dreamweaver^®
Macromedia^® Dreamweaver^® is a professional HTML editor for visually designing and managing websites and pages. Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding HTML or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver makes it easy to get started and provides you with helpful tools to enhance your web design experience.