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I'm trying to update an existing website on a shoestring (i.e. nonexistent) budget, so am looking for a freeware HTML editor that will allow me to make some basic text/image amends to the exisiting pages.

So far, I've found this slighly clumsy programme called EasyHTML by someone called TONIARTS - which is great but gives me a headache.

Has anyone got any other suggestions?

― Pob, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Nurofen.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

notepad

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ken c OTM

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

vim

what platform are you using? (not that that changes my answer...)

there are about 40 here:
http://www.tucows.com/htmledit95_default.html

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

If using a mac, BBEdit (or simpletext).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

html kit

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you still get "Arachnophilia"?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ack there was a good PC counterpart to BBEdit but I can't think of it's name. . . .*sigh*

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

vim

emacs!

The best Windows editor I've come across was called Programmers' File Editor, or PFE.

(I still prefer emacs, though)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

This is cool, I've been using Coffee Cup but I'd like to switch to something else when my "trial period" is up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like arachnophilia myself, but the newest version is a java thing and doesn't run as well as the previous windows only version.

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There used to be a beefed up Notepad called NoteTab Pro for windows that did tag colouring and had good search and replace and stuff, I liked it.

Be careful saving between unix and windows/mac if you are doing this - line breaks and control characters are different and sometimes a re-save can foul things up (if you use word wrap for eg).

Does it have to be freeware? Dreamweaver has a 30 day trial.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the things I liked about PFE was its line-ending handling - you just select what style of line-ending you want for a file, and there are no problems after that.

(I had an awful time in my previous job once when my boss took a file with Unix line-endings that used the Mac line-ending character as a subfield separator, tried to edit it in BBEdit, and completely fucked it entirely. Of course, I was the person who had to sort it out)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

vim

emacs!

vi!!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

textpad.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to write my markup on the back of roofing fliers and then scan it in.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

vim
emacs!

vi!!

Of course, *ed* is the *standard* text editor.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

BBEdit ain't free, unfortunately. Also, if you just want to do HTML, I would HIGHLY recommend skEdit (http://www.skti.org). It's cheap ($20something) and really really good for (X)HTML/CSS/PHP. Like, REALLY good. Not the best for serious coding, but that's what vim is for anyway.

I am, of course, assuming that you're on a Mac (I mean, you wouldn't have asked this question if you were running Linux/UNIX). If you're running Windows that's your own fault.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for these. I don't actually know HTML - but can just about cope with making text amends to an existing page. I just need something that will let me do this with the minimum of fuss and confusion!

― Pob, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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