Editing and Browsing HTML Documents

Editing

1. Text Editor (e.g.Notepad). Since HTML documents contain only text, they are easily prepared using a standard text editor such as Microsoft Notepad (PC), Simpletext (Mac) or emacs (Unix). You decide exactly what the HTML code will look like. As a result
   • You have the finest level of control over how the page will display.
     
   • You can make the HTML code readable
   • A text editor is very useful if you want to make small changes.

   We will use this method initially.

2. Netscape Composer. This is a WYSIWIG, HTML-oriented editor that comes free with Netscape. It is very easy to use but has certain limitations:
   • It only handles a subset of HTML
   • It often produces unreadable HTML code.

   We will use Composer extensively during the course.

3. Microsoft Word. Later versions of Word allow you to prepare a document in the ordinary way and "write-as" it in HTML. This is probably the quickest way of preparing a usable HTML document but it suffers from the same problems as Composer, only more so. Another potential problem is that Word is not free of charge.

HTML Tags

Editing Procedure