CAn anybody recommend a Free,easy to use HTML editing app for a beginner?

hi everybody, well i have just started my own affiliate website and am learning lots already, but everytime i want to creat new banners or deeplinks i have to contact my programmer, i want to learn how to do it on my own, my programmer is going to teach me how to do it myself and told me to download a free HTML editing program so basically i want you guys to post your recommendations, keep in mind im new to HTML. im sure my programmer will recommend a program but i would love to hear your thoughts

thanks in advance

alan

 

Yes, Dreamweaver... it's got a split view where you can see the "Code" section on the top, and the "Graphical" representation on the bottom.

VERY easy to use and it is what you are looking for

 

Probably Dreamweaver to get started but once you already know HTML basics, I recommend switching to pure text based editor.

For example: PSPad

 

thanks for the recommendations guys, keep em coming

just done a google and an application called pagebreeze is number 1,

anybody used it?

 

For quick html edits I like notepad++. It is free, light, has syntax highlighting. In Linux, emacs is nice too.

 

I think dreamweaver is probably the best. Its pretty user friendly and you dont need too much knowledge about html or coding to use it.

 

He is asking for a free html editor... Dreamweaver is not by far free. you can get a 30 day trail, but then its gone.

 

dreamweaver is the best to start

 

ill take a look at dreamweaver, cheers

 

Here is a page listing some free WYSIWYG html editors.

http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmleditors/tp/aatpfreewyswin.htm

Download and try some or all of them to see which one answers your needs best. However, I'd recommend you also to try Dreamweaver for the features of it (Dreamweaver is not free - 30 days trial)

 

When I first started I used alleycode, I found that kind of close to dreamweaver and the best thing about it is that its free..

 

I would say use dreamweaver for the trial period and then switch over to just plain notepad.

 

Try out this simple web designer and html generator. It's designed for school kid's but because of this it's very simple if basic. Initial lessons on HTML and CSS are provided good for beginners. It might be what you are looking for. As a newbie to the forum cannot provide you with a live link but you can find it at

http [colon] //websedge [dot] googlepages [dot] com /htmlgen [dot] html

 

What you programmer asked you to find is something to type in. If you can type in it, you can write HTML in it. Although
no word processors, as they have their own code that they stick in yours!
Notepad (the basic one) you may not want if you guys are using UTF-8 as Notepad seems to keep adding the stupid Byte Order Mark at the beginning of every file... Notepad ++ doensn't have this problem.

I would recommend whatever text editor came with your computer (except Notepad). Syntax highlighting is nice. Code completion is not (unless you don't mind the machine wiping up after you, and making you wipe up after it).

I'd say avoid DreamWeaver. DW is for people who don't know how to build websites but want to build one. Since you're going to have a pro teach you (hopefully the Right Way), don't bother with an expensive program that writes buggy code, adds sh*t for you, and has the worthless Design View (you'll use a real browser(s) instead). If you already had DW sitting on your computer and still just needed a text editor AND you could turn off all it's BS defaults...

OR if your programmer is unprofessional enough to rely on DW to write half his code for him...

then I'd say go ahead and use it. But it's like $400 for something you can get for free (any other text editor with syntax highlighting) and isn't necessary, plus the aformentioned probability that it will show you how NOT to code. Wrapping a <div> around everything, setting a class on every child of an element, and using unnecessary Javascript are classic features of DW (although if you already knew what you were doing, you could turn these "features" off).

Just a tip: if you see a web page with MM_swap Javajunk in it, it was written (poorly) in dreambeaver.

If you want a rather exhaustive list of possible (and free) editors, do a search on the HTML forums here for "text html editor" and you'll get a real rundown of programs and editors. Like, several pages worth : )

 

wow, thank you for your detailed post, it seems alot of people are recommeding DW, there are so many versions of it out there, which one should i try

 

I whould Recommend you Dreamweaver since you can switch from design to code mode this is very usefull, especially for the beginning!

 

Again Dreamwaver encourages bad design. Is not free and will not help you learn how to code decent HTML. People who use dreamwaver

On every page of html you will see body tags like this. Even though it is the same, they redefine it and every other tags attributes.

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" link="#ff0000" vlink="#ff0000" text="#000000">

HTML:

People who do not use dreamweaver

<body>

HTML:

The two pieces of code will have the same end results. How? CSS, but dreamwaver will not tell you that. Why does this matter? Because when you want to do a re-design do you want to edite 200 html pages because you put all the style info in the HTML? Or would you rather edit one or two file and be done, whole new design.

Css

body{
  margin:0px;
  color:#000;
}

a:link{
  color:#FF0000;
  font-family:verdana,ariel, system;
  font-wieght:bold;
  font-size:11px;
}
a:hover{
 text-decoration: underline
}
a:active{
 color:#9900FF;
}

HTML:

Get a text editor with syntax highlighting, Then learn HTML and CSS. all the fancy toys developers use will steer you the wrong way if you do not know the basics. a great site for CSS and HTML is
http : / / www . w3schools . com

I learned from http : / / www . webmonkey . com

HTML and CSS are just the start. THey are the base, you will later be building on them with things like javascript, PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, MySQL, Perl, XML, RSS, REST, SOAP, just to name a few. Learn it right and you will be MUCH better off. Learn about validation. Look up the w3cs validator tidy.

 

You are right but don´t forget that dreamweaver also supports css! You can create your own stylesheets and easily add them to your template

I use dreamweaver and i never do it this way, also when you begin a command it will show you the commands that could be entered, i love this option since you forget some code tags many times

At the end it´s your decision, the best is to take a look at all and don´t forget to use CSS for your sites...

 

Indeed, that's the only reason I use it.

 

What about Amaya?