I had the interesting experience the other day of having to update a website that had been optimized. By optimized I mean that all the whitespace had been stripped from the HTML. There were no line breaks, no spaces between page elements, no comments. Even the end tags of elements like paragraphs and lists were [...]

If you only want to make an occasional web page, any of several WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors can insulate you from the underlying HTML code. If you’re going to be doing a lot of web work, sooner or later you will benefit from getting some HTML under your belt.

Why would you want to go out and buy another program just for writing? You already have a perfectly good editor in TextEdit. You probably have a copy of Microsoft Word or Appleworks, both of which have perfectly good word processors. Honestly, almost every program written can do some sort of text editing. If you [...]

I learned HMTL on BBEdit and have faithfully upgraded from version 3 onward. When the latest upgrade (version 8) came along I downloaded the demo and liked what I saw. It may be the single most significant upgrade that Bare Bones has ever put out. Yet, when it came time to pull out my credit [...]

Webstractor is a brilliant tool for web based research. It is a web browser and web page archiver that also allows you to edit and compile saved web pages into a new document.

skEdit. Chances are that you’ve never heard about it. If you edit HTML, that’s a shame. skEdit is a sweet little web editor. In this era of mega-apps that do everything, skEdit just does web text. It has syntax highlighting, but only for web languages HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Asp, Perl, Python, PHP and ColdFusion. See [...]