Re: Web authoring tools
Re: Web authoring tools
- Subject: Re: Web authoring tools
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:33:57 -0800
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Yesbut... The man said inexpensive! PageSpinner costs about 1/3 of what
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BBEdit plus a decent book costs! I think starting with an HTML editor
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probably works better for a lot of people who will graduate to hand-coding
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in due course. PageSpinner is competent, inexpensive and, BTW, quite
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scriptable. IMHO.
Silly man, I mentioned what I use but wasn't saying to run out and buy
BBEdit! I also mentioned Alpha which is shareware. I haven't used
PageSpinner so I'll have to take your word for it! My experience with
the major commercial editors has been as I said, noisy html. I shall
try to get around to taking PageSpinner for a test drive but have already
filled up my plate. Although a little quirky at times and containing
enough options to make a first time user's head spin it's a very powerful
editor for all sorts of layout and programming languages.
All the same, thanks for the tip on PageSpinner. It's on my list!
My basic advice seems sound enough:
don't be seduced by the flashy wysiwyg editors,
follow the recommendations of the w3c <
http://w3.org/>
don't be suckered into writing for one specific browser.
I think we probably agree on at least that much....
R23