Back when I was in college, we had to make webpages using notepad. How times have changed. Now it isn’t paramount to know HTML to have a web presence, which is a good thing. HTML is easiest enough to figure out. Chances are with any website or blog you may have to dabble into the code every now and then to tweak it.
Finding a good html editor will help make tweaking code easier and faster. My favorite free HTML editor is one I have used for years. It’s called Arachnophilia. I first learned of Arachnophilia when I was in college way back in the late 90’s. A few years ago they updated to a java platform, and I didn’t really care for that version. The version I still use is 4.0. I like that each menu item has a button toolbar, so if I want to build a table, I just click on the table button. Then I have a row of commands that are related to tables. By clicking on a button, it sends the code to the editor. Arachnophilia is free but is classified as careware.
Another free html editor that has promise is Crimson Editor. Crimson editor is more than an html editor. It is a source editor to edit code for many programming languages like C and PHP. My geeky husband uses Crimson Editor. I have yet to really delve into it. I do like that when I view a source page of a website, it automatically opens in Crimson Editor. Crimson Editor is fast loading, so to view source took about as long as viewing it in notepad. Crimson Editor also has a spell checker and user-defined macros.
There are plenty of free html editors out there. These are only two that I have either used extensively or someone that I know has. Of the few that I have tried, these seem to show the most promise for my needs.
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