Introduction to HTML lesson 3 - HTML Editors

                      Many of us often concentrate more on programming part rather than the subject but you need to no more than that .If you want only programs you can visit many websites but there are very few websites that provide the concept you need for HTML/CSS along with programming.I want make you understand what you're doing.so let's start with tutorial.

HYPERMEDIA :

                                A hypermedia document is a document with a format that can be displayed online, in a browser. In practice, hypermedia documents are often called HTML files, although they may contain many other types of files.

                                   HTML standards are set and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium

Hypermedia

WWW(World Wide Web):

                                            The Web, or World Wide Web, is the area of the Internet that allow you to display text and graphics and play videos, and movies. With appropriate equipment, we can even receive or broadcast live audio and video.

  A set of  html pages accessible using HTTP

  Hyper Text Transfer Protocol- HTTP is the protocol to exchange or transfer hypertext.

   Hypertext is structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between  nodes containing text.

Hyperlink  

                     A hyperlink, or link, usually appears as colored, underlined text or a graphic on a Web page. A link is a jumping-off point for moving from one subject to another.

HTML Web page authors require three basic tools:

1.—Computer with graphics capabilities

2.Text editor

3.Browser software application.

HTML editors :

                           There are many types of HTML editors that are used for writing HTML code .But Two of them are mostly used .They Are :

        1.Text editor

        2.WYSIWIG editor

        Text editor :

—                         A text editor is a software application used to create and manipulate text, such as Notepad and WordPad. To start creating web pages, we do not need an expensive software package but you do need some knowledge of HTML. We can create web pages with a basic text editor like Windows Notepad.—

—       Macromedia Homesite is a popular text-based HTML editor.                                       

WYSIWIG Editor :

                          WYSIWYG is generally an Acronym for "What You See is What You Get" .—HTML editors do not require much HTML knowledge, they tend to be expensive. These editors allows you to directly work in the "design" or "preview" view instead of the code view.

       There are several popular WYSIWYG editors available:

       Macromedia Dreamweaver

       Microsoft FrontPage

      Adobe GoLive                                                                                                                   

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Features of Text Editor :

 Better control. Because text-based editors require knowledge of HTML, the developer has more control over what is written to produce a web page. In some cases, a software package (like FrontPage) may write proprietary code that may not be interpreted by all the brwosers.

Faster editing. we can quickly change your code unlike WYSIWYG editors. WYSIWYG editors require, for example, a lot of computer-resources to start-up or load/open a page.

More flexibility. we can edit your code directly at the desired location. This cannot be always done with WYSIWYG editors.

Features of  WYSIWYG editors :

Support for other scripting languages. WYSIWYG editors provide advanced features to code in other programming/scripting languages such as JavaScript, XHTML, ASP/ASP.NET, PHP, and JSP.

Faster/simplified development. WYSIWYG editors allows you to develop pages quickly as the software writes the necessary code in response to the layout you design for your web page.

Better organization. Dreamweaver, for instance, allows you to define a site folder that contains all the files that make up the website. By defining a local site folder, you have many advantages including moving of files (without breaking links), searching of a particular term or tag in the entire site (without having the file open!), and FTP support to move only changed or new files to the server. 

In the next lesson  we are going to create an HTML document and execute it .If you need any reference of specific topic you can contact me  or provide names of topic in comments section below.Thanks for reading .