HTML Editors
To view pages published on the World Wide Web you need a web browser. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Safari are the most popular. The pages that you see on the Internet have been created by publishers such as yourself using a special markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language). This language provides the instructions to the browser on how to display the page.
The simplest form of HTML pages, also called static HTML, can be created by anyone with a text editor. For example, Windows users could use the built-in Windows Notepad application to create web pages. Although you could use this application, there are other HTML editors available which are much easier to use. Notepad2 is a free, lightweight editor that includes syntax highlighting for a number of programming languages including HTML. A more comprehensive editor is Arachnophilia, which is built using Java so that it will work on a number of different operating systems.
Most word processing applications, like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice provide a way to save regular documents as HTML documents but they usually contain a lot of extra code to support the formatting you have used.
Quite a few of the web hosting companies offer site building tools but you will quickly find them limiting.
Even if you decide to purchase a software package to assist you, I recommend that you learn at least the basics of HTML coding.
Text Editors
The following are some text editors that may be used to create web pages (must know HTML):
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web authoring tools
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