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HTML Editors 101 - Smaller Is Better


SiteSpinner

SiteSpinner is a user-friendly web site development tool that includes many advanced features such as drag-and-drop positioning, built in FTP to publish directly to your web site, an image editor and graphics creation all in one. With SiteSpinner, objects can be placed wherever you want them with your mouse. Not only that, you can place objects so they are always centered, or automatically scale to fit your visitors browser. The Text Editor works like a word processor, allowing you to change font, size and color. Add links and spell-check your work. Add titles and you have a professional page. The drag-and-drop Table Editor lets you quickly organize your information. Text, pictures, or any object can easily be dragged into position, and your table's properties can be set the way you want them.

Full review posted at http://www.deprice.com/sitespinner.htm

NoteTab Pro

NoteTab Pro is a leading-edge text editor and HTML coding tool, and an ideal Notepad replacement. Winner of top shareware industry awards since 1998, this elegant application does it all: you can handle multiple large files with a simple tabbed interface, use a spell-checker and thesaurus, format text, use multiple undo, and bookmark documents. You can build templates, use powerful system-wide searches, and do global multi-line replacements.

Full review posted at http://www.deprice.com/notetabpro.htm

CoffeeCup HTML Editor

The CoffeeCup HTML Editor is 2 Editors in 1. If you know HTML or want to learn more use the powerful and easy Code Editor that has set the standard since 1996. To make pages fast, or without knowing HTML use the drag and drop WYSIWYG Visual Editor. You can also go back and forth between the Code and Visual Editors to create remarkable Websites in a snap. CoffeeCup comes with more than 100 DHTML & Javascripts, a DHTML Menu wizard, 25,000 Graphics and Photos including over 1,000 XP Style Icons and access to over 500 Free Website Templates. It also has Built-in FTP Uploading and easy to use Table, Frame, Font, and Form Designers.

Full review posted at http://www.deprice.com/coffeecuphtmleditor.htm

CodeLock 2.0

Codelock encrypts PHP and any HTML generated by your PHP scripts. You can password protect your scripts, create an expiry time or unlock key, lock to IP or URL and more. The Encryptor software works with any install of PHP4.x or better. Requires no additional software to be installed (on your server or on your clients server) - Codelock V2 is ISP friendly. Works both on your 'localhost' server OR online via HTTP Works on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD operating systems. Requires no changes to the web server (with default PHP installation). Works in PHP safe mode and with globals off (except when encrypting from zip files). Encrypts PHP or HTML files (including HTML or javascript embedded into PHP). Encrypts HTML web pages as an added extra Offers ZLIB compression as part of the encryption. Your PHP pages can be compressed to approximately 1/3 of their file size.

Full review available at http://www.deprice.com/codelock.htm

John Deprice is a self-taught webmaster. The tools he uses to create websites are available at http://www.deprice.com/utilities.htm

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