Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Dennis Kenney"
<islandmariner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writing in
news:115bolcruub6751@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I'm looking for the best web editor under $50.00 WYSIWYG not an HTML
> editor.
Trust me, in the end you will want an HTML editor, not a WYSIWYG. There
are many reasons, bloat, not compatible across different
browsers/platforms, harder to debug when there is an error, almost
impossible to use if you go with server side/database.
> I'm new to creating web pages for a business I'm starting.
That's a good thing, and you should start off on the right foot. Use
Strict DocType and do not use presenational markup. Put all your
presenational stuff in an external CSS stylesheet. This way, if you
suddenly decide that you want all the pages to have Christmas colors, you
won't have to go into each and every page to do so. It's a five second
fix
instead of a three day fix.
You will also have been search engine results. Robots are much happier
when they do not have to go through a lot of presenational stuff, nested
tables, etc.
> I've chosen Yahoo to host the site but I'm a little apprehensive to use
> Yahoo Site Builder because the pages it creates only works on Yahoo.
Yahoo's Site Builder probably produces the _worst_ markup ever.
> I may want to move the site some day so I'm looking for an editor that
> will be independent. How would you rank:
> Easy Web Editor,
> WebDwarf,
> WebPage Maker
> Web Studio
>
None. Do this:
1. Go to http://www.chami.com/html-kit
and download the editor.
2. Go to http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle
and get either the lite version
(free) or the full version. Topstyle integrates with HTML-Kit for editing
stylesheets.
3. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/
and learn HTML (not that hard)
4. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/css/
and learn CSS (not that hard
either)
Then bookmark these sites:
1. HTML Specification (has all the elements and attributes described
fully):
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
2. CSS Specificaton (has all the CSS properties fully explained):
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
3. Blooberry, good reference for HMTL and CSS:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/
4. CSS Zen Garden - what can be done with CSS
http://www.csszengarden.com/
5. The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines (2/3 of cor****ate
websites make these mistakes):
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html
> What features are necessary for a service web site that does not sell
> online.
>
See above #5
> Thanks for your opinion.
>
> Dennis
>
>
HTH
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Adrienne Boswell
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