Try note tab light www.notetab.com. It comes in freeware, nominal and
professional variety. Its quite good, but homesite is better because
homesite has a button for every html widget.
Other than that, textpad in windows.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: Slightly OT
> > Does anyone have experience with homesite?
> >
> > I need to recommend a SIMPLE wysiwyg editor to a customer of mine. Is
> > Homesite Wysywyg or an HTML editor?, and if it's html, can anyone
> > recommend a simple wys...editor BESIDES front page?
>
> HomeSite is great. I think it has a church set up in its name. It
certainly
> has the followers (perhaps the disenchanted flock from the Church of
> Netscape). But it's definitely not WYSIWYG. Dreamweaver's a good choice,
but
> there are others. One thing with DW is that it assumes you know what you
are
> doing. If you don't know HTML it might be best to look elsewhere. It's
good
> at dHTML tricks.
>
> One thing to consider is whether or not any server-side material will be
in
> the pages (server-side includes, blocks of ASP, whatever) and if so,
whether
> the WYSIWYG editor will screw it up.
>
> I met a graphic designer using PageMill recently and the code looked
> exceptionally messy, full of nested fixed width tables of ridiculous sizes
> (width="879" etc.), and empty cells, and proprietary mark-up. This is not
> just an uptight geek thing either. Messy code with extraordinarily complex
> fixed size tables is not the way to create flexible, liquid, fast Web
pages.
> It's a fact: you can't get past mediocre using this kind of software.
Great
> for graphic designers though who don't like things moving around and have
> twin 17 inch screens. Keeps them out of my business. (Disclaimer: I don't
> know whether or not it was the latest version.)
>
> On the HS / CF Studio question -- I have both running here, and I'm
> constantly amazed at the extent of support for CFML built into HS. I think
> the biggest difference is the colour of the icon.
>
> Regards,
> Matthew Walker
> Electric Sheep Web Co.
> http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/
>
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>
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