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Ten Cool HTML Tools and Technologies

In This Chapter

arrow Identifying your HTML toolbox needs

arrow Discovering a favorite HTML editor

arrow Adding a graphics application to your toolbox

arrow Authoring systems for the web

arrow Understanding essential utilities for web publishing

HTML documents are made of plain text, which means you can build one using a no-frills text editor such as Notepad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac). Once upon a time, that was all web authors used. But as the web has evolved, so have the tools used to create web pages. Nowadays, web authoring is complex enough that a simple text editor doesn’t cut it unless

check.png You don’t care (much) about graphics and HTML validation.

check.png You’re on a quick in-and-out mission to make small changes to an existing HTML document.

After you gain more experience with HTML, ...

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