====== HTML Editor ======

I usually just do my [[html]] in [[geany]], but every now and then I try to find a good dedicated editor to recommend to people. Dedicated editors have some advantages a regular [[text_editor]] might not: You can make //projects//, which contain all the files in your website, so you can quickly get to different pages without needing your [[file manager]] open, live previews of how your page will look.

===== Software =====

  * [[https://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/|Arachnophilia]].
  * [[http://brackets.io/|Brackets]] is a popular HTML-focused text editor.

==== WYSIWYG ====

Ones that I think might be worth recommending.

  * Your [[word processor]] can probably export HTML files. [[LibreOffice]] and [[Microsoft Word]] sure can. [[Spreadsheet]] software can usually spit out an HTML table too.
  * [[HotGlue]] is a browser-based editor. You can use it on [[https://hotglue.me|]], or host it yourself. It's easy to use, you can just plonk stuff anywhere. It's like a [[wiki]], where you edit pages in-place, if that makes sense.
  * [[http://www.bluegriffon.org/|BlueGriffon]] is a free editor descended from Netscape's old pack-in HTML editor.
  * [[http://maqetta.org/|Maqetta]] - Browser-based.
  * [[https://www.w3.org/Amaya/|Amaya]]
  * [[https://html-notepad.com/|HTML-Notepad]] - Editor for simple HTML documents.

Gunna just mention Frontpage and Dreamweaver, because those are how I got started learning HTML in the 90s :) Last time I looked at Dreamweaver it was post Adobe buying it, and it looked like a mess.

==== WYSIWYM ====

__W__hat __Y__ou __S__ee __I__s __W__hat __Y__ou __M__ean. So they give you a preview that gives you some indication of how things will look, but also shows you what elements are where. Sounds cool! I haven't tried anything like these before.

[[Wikipedia]] gives these two examples:

  * [[https://www.lyx.org/|LyX]] - Seems more of a [[LaTeX]] editor. A little digging  makes it seem like the HTML export plugin isn't being developed anymore?
  * [[http://www.wymeditor.org|WYMeditor]]

===== See Also =====

  * [[html]]
  * [[text_editor]]
  * [[wp>HTML editor]]
  * [[wp>List of HTML editors]]
  * [[wp>Comparison of HTML editors]]
  * [[wp>WorldWideWeb]] - The first [[web browser]]/editor.

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