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It can be hard or an easy decision to chose a Web Editor. There are a lot of products available in the market today. Web Editors should not be chosed on the basis of price and what the others are using. It’s pretty important to choose a Web Editor which satisfies your needs and budget. There are little useful tips in buying Web Editor which makes a great one.
Operating system and price
These are the facts which have to be kept in mind- if an Editor won’t work for your OS (operating system) or it is not affordable, then don’t download or buy it. Than the price there are a lot of other features to a good Web Page Editor or whether the Editor it runs Mac OS or other OS.
What type of a Web Editor is it?
There are 3 types of Editors available, they are:
Text Editors: these Editors let you to edit HTML tags directly and not in a visual way.
WYSIWYG Editors: these Editors let you to edit WebPages in visual manner and not the HTML directly
Combo Editors: these editors let you to edit either text or WYSIWYG depending upon your style or mood.
An Editor that offers you both will be more useful and gets more points than the one that is only text or WYSIWYG. What ever type of Editor you use it has come with HTML validator attached to it so that you can gain more points. Having an HTML validator saves you a lot of time in the long run. Text Editors should come with tag completion and colour coding.
Managing web pages:
Many Web Editors which are more powerful comes attached with Site Managers (projects). This site manager helps you to keep the files of one Website at a particular place. By doing so the Web Editor manipulates the files as sites rather than a single file. Here Web Editors manipulate the single files through FTP. Using replace and search, Web Editors help you to manage the files.
Images
Some of the Webpage Editors provides you with limited image editing in its tool like resizing and cropping. If these Web Editors can connect to other (outside) image editors, it makes more convenient to use.
Special characters, CSS and Java script
In most of the Editors these days you can write CSS styles, if the Editor is embedded with style library, CSS validator and CSS editor. With Web Editor it is easy to write CSS WebPages. This is the same case with Java script.
Web designers mostly forget about special characters. If the text is written in English, it’s easy to assume that, for an accented character you will not require to know the codes for that.
Conveniences of Web Editors
The ability of the Web Editors to connect with data base
Support for the languages like ASP, JSP, cold fusion and PHP.
Spell checkers ignoring tags will be critical.
Some of the Editors provide you with photo gallery maker