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May 8, 2018 - Split screen view for the live preview of your site. Aptana Studio 3 (Free) Aptana Studio 3 is an open source web application IDE (Integrated Development Environment). NetBeans (Free) NetBeans is a free and open source HTML editor. Bluefish (Free) Sublime Text HTML Editor (Free & Paid) Phase 5 HTML Editor (Free & Paid). Built to meet the needs of today’s creative editors, Final Cut Pro offers revolutionary video editing, powerful media organization, and incredible performance optimized for Mac computers and macOS Mojave.
To create HTML files, you can use simple text editors, ordesktop applications such as word processors, to manipulate code byhand. You can also use specialized HTML authoring systems to automatethe coding.
Text editors
If you prefer to code HTML by hand, you can use a simple texteditor to create web pages. Brackets is anexcellent free HTML editing application from Adobe available for bothWindows and Mac. Common text editors for Windows include Notepad andWordPad; both programs are standard in Windows. For Mac, TextEdit(standard in Mac OS X) and TextMate are popular. Also for Mac,BBEdit is acombination text and HTML editor. Major Unix text editorsinclude Nano, Pico, Emacs, and vi.
Note: If you use a text editor or other desktopapplication to create web pages, be sure to save these files with the
.html
or .htm
file extension. Also, avoidfilenames with two or more words unless the words are linked by dashesor underscores. For example, this filename would not work:But this filename would:
Web authoring tools
Dedicated HTML editing programs offer a variety of web-orientedfeatures not found in other programs. Many allow you to quickly andeasily incorporate Java applets, JavaScript, animatedgraphics, web forms, and other advanced features. These programsalso allow you to quickly design whole web sites with dozens ofdifferent pages. An example of a web design program is AdobeDreamweaver. A freeware web design program called Amaya isavailable from the World Wide WebConsortium.
Adobe's Dreamweaver, and a great deal of other Adobe software, isavailable to IU students, faculty, and staff for download viaIUware, or on DVD through campus bookstores. SeeAbout Adobe software at IU
Note: If your web authoring software doesn'tinclude an SFTP publishing option, you will need separate SFTPsoftware to transfer your files to the web server. Examples of SFTP softwareinclude WinSCP (Windows) and Cyberduck (Mac); both are available from IUWare.