You might be thinking that all this tag stuff is a real pain, especially if you didn’t get that small example right the first time. (don’t free about it; I didn’t get that example right the first time, and I created it.) you have to remember all the tags, and you have to type them in right and close each one. What a hassle!
Many freeware and shareware programs are available for editing HTML files. Most of these programs are essentially text editors with extra menu items or buttons that insert the appropriate HTML tags into your text. HTML –based text editors are particularly nice for two reasons: you don’t have to remember all the tags, and you don’t have to take the time to type them all. I’ve already mentioned HTML-kit, but there are plenty of others as well, many general-purpose text editors also include special features to make it easier to deal with HTML files these days.
Many editors on the market purport to be WYSIWYG. as you learned earlier today, there’s really no such thing as WYSIWYG when you’re dealing with HTML. “what you get” can vary widely based on the browser.
With that said, as long as you’re aware that the result of working in those editors can vary, using WYSIWYG editors fan be a quick way to create simple HTML pages. For professional web development and for using many of the very advanced features, however, WYSIWYG editors can fall short, and you’ll need to go “under the had” to play with HTML code anyhow. Even if you intend to use a WYSIWGYG editor for the bulk of your HTML work, bear with me for the next couple of days and try these examples in text editors so that you get a feel for what HTML really is before you decide to move on to an editor that hides the tags
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