Following on from the hosting thread, I fancy finishing that site I didn’t start. With something more advanced than notepad.
In the deep and distant days, I vaguely remember using a text based html editor for creating web pages. I prefer this over WYSINWYG types. But I can’t remember what it was :wall:
It wasn’t just a simple text editor, it understood html as html. Tags were colour coded. As you wrote tags it offered to complete them and you can right click to edit tags. There was also a basic verifier built in which always comes in handy to check for silly mistakes like forgetting to close a tag somewhere.
So I guess I’m looking for something similar again. Any suggestions?
I had a quick play with it earlier, didn’t seem to work the way I was thinking as above, that or I need to enable or use it differently than I’m used to. I’ll have another go tomorrow when I’m more awake.
That leaves the main want item of tag editing. The one I used in the past let you right clock a tag, which then leads to a window where you can see the valid bits that can go in the tag where you can fill them out as needed. I like this as I don’t have to look up/remember what all the option names were for each type of tag.
I’m starting to think this is more likely a part of a dedicated web editor program than a general text editor.
I’ve rediscovered the editor I’m thinking of: Homesite. But they’ve been bought by that monster Adobe, who want over £100 for it on their site. Doh! Why does Adobe have to buy up good software, bloat it and pump up the price? They did it with cooledit too.
I’ve tried all the editors mentioned on this page and more (crimson, nvu). None of them do the tag editing. While free is always good, I’m not adverse to buying software. Just not £100+ asking prices. So still looking for ideas.
hotdog - nope
coffecup - definite no! it might be a trial, but you don’t have to remind me everywhere.
I’m coming to the sad conclusion that homesite is the editor for me but as said think it’s £100 on its own. Might have to do plan b - use what’s left of the trial to do the hard work, then other editors for minor changes.
To close on this, have bought and received homesite 5 via ebay. Working great. Free update to 5.2. Didn’t see any differences between that and current 5.5 (via trial) but at my level I don’t think it makes any differences.
In a bit of research, what put me off buying current version in UK was the adobe store list price of £100. Since found out it could also be bought from the US store for $100. The rip off continues!
Didn’t know they did html editors too.