Features Of A Good HTML Editor

What are the features you should look for in a good HTML editor? For one, I’d give wordpad and notepad a miss. You can use them, but you’ve got no way of checking your HTML code is right. You’d be surprised how easy it is to miss a closing tag, or mistype something. This is especially true when you’re nesting tables.

Whilst everyone will have different priorities, here are some of the things you might want to look out for when choosing an HTML editor.

1. Syntax Highlighting – By making the tags a different color to the text, it’s a lot easier to look back through the code when making adjustments. You can get editors that also validate that you’re entering correct HTML.

If you’re going to be working with javascript or CSS, look for an editor that highlights them all in a different color.

2. Suggestion of tags – Good editors will show you what you should be including (or could be including) with your HTML. A good editor will let you browse through the alternatives. This is especially useful when it comes to some of the properties associated with the different HTML tags

3. File Upload (FTP) – A built in FTP facility will save you a lot of time (plus you don’t have to worry about buying another program).

4. Easy conversion of text to HTML – By automatically converting text to HTML – that is, inserting paragraph tags, lists, headings, and other formatting tags – this feature will save you a lot of time, particularly with a content rich site.

Free Website Builder Software

When you want a free website builder, you’ve got a choice between blog platforms like wordpress, which can be tweaked into working as a regular website, other content management systems like Joomla and drupal, and a number of site builders like Hyper VRE.

They all have their benefits, it just depends on the type of website you want to build, and the structure of that website. If you want to add a lot of content,a and develop that website over time, I think nothing beats content management systems. They allow you to add articles and posts easily, there is a lot of other components that third parties have created that extend their functionality, so you can pretty much do anything you might dream of. In that sense, they really allow you full creative reign, and can adapt to a growing business.

Of course, other free website builder software like HyperVRE is good for creating a lot of small sites that you aren’t going to really add anything to later. They all have their uses.