Html editing help

[The Other Librarian]

So I've been drafted to do a website for my Dad's motorcycle club. Nothing fancy needed, and I can handle the basics of html. But beyond notepad, what's a good freeware html editor? Hopefully something wysiwig. I mocked up a quick demo on MS publisher, just an intro graphic and a small 2x4 table with links, but the code had reams of crap in it that has to be needless. Any ideas on something a bit more elegant?

Also any good apps for image mapping a graphic?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Hand of Evil]

May want to check out CNET download area: CNET DOWNLOAD

And for help with HTML try HERE

 

[Planesdragon]

First question: Which version of Publisher are you using? 2003 and 2004 should have a "HTML, filtered" option, which should clear out the round-trip crud.

If Publisher can't work for you, try OpenOffice.org -- works like MS Word, WYSIWG, haven't heard anything bad about its HTML.

Or, you could go get the latest version of Mozilla with its composer, or if you're brave go to the Nvu beta from www.nvu.com. (Nvu is Mozilla composer expanded, which in turn is the Mozilla HTML-mail editor expanded to do web pages -- which is, in turn, Netscape rewritten)


As for the image map -- assuming that you are using a map similar to this one, and not just simple rollovers -- i use Map This! to do them. Works wonders.

 

[The Other Librarian]

Thanks for the pointers.

PD - I have 2003 Publisher. I may give Nvu a try.
HOE - The htmlgoodies link looks priceless. Ta.

 

[jonesy]

...beyond notepad, what's a good freeware html editor?

After I got Editpad Lite I haven't used anything else for writing html.

 

[barsoomcore]

The only text editor on Windows for me is EditPlus. It's the finest Windows application I've seen, and an absolute delight to use. For HTML editing, it's unbeatable.

 

[Tanager]

I'll second edit plus, I've been using it for years and I've still to find an html text editor I like better. It's also got built in highlighting for other languages like Java or XML (although for the latter I do prefer XMLspy). Off the website (IIRC) there's also a third party file for actionscript support.

 

[Michael Morris]

Every WYSIWYG editor I've ever seen throws in crap you don't need and/or makes code that's hard to read. So I don't use them unless I'm in a hurry or want to sketch things out. When I do use one it's Dreamweaver, but at $200 that's not exactly cheap.

 

[jonesy]

Every WYSIWYG editor I've ever seen throws in crap you don't need and/or makes code that's hard to read.

Which is the reason I use Editpad. The Lite is free and it's really only a glorified notepad.

 

[Bauglir]

For HTML specifically I'd recommend 1stPage 2000:

http://www.evrsoft.com/

Free, and very nice.

As a more generic coding-text editor, I'd suggest Scintilla/Scite

http://www.scintilla.org/