HTML Source-Code Editing Programs

1. HTML-Kit

   Has a community and therefore many plug-ins available Preview (IE+Gecko) + configurable HTML-Reference/Docu integration (The offline w3c reference plug-in is a must download) Exceptional html-tidy integration (by predefined profiles, e.g. "convert to xhtml", "indent/beautify") TopStyle integration, as same as easy integration of arbitrary external programs No project support, but file explorer + FTP support Auto-completion (This is rare! :-) Nearly as good as the auto-completion of .Edit Not triggered by "Ctrl+Space" or any key, but simply wait!! Beware: It's only working after "<" (tag-compl.) or " " (attribute-compl.) -- not during an already half-typed tag or attribute Auto-expansion (although they name it "auto-completion", too) -- triggered by a key after a special "pattern" will expand it as defined Supports editor side include-files by a plug-in (includeHTML)

2. PSPad
   • Auto-expansion, whereby the expansion is individually defined by an appearing wizard (so one could call it "some kind of auto-completion" -- but I won't ;-)
   • Preview (+ SelfHTML as chm-file can be integrated as HTML-Reference/Docu, which will behave context-sensitive)
   • TopStyle and html-tidy integration
   • Basic project support + FTP support
   • PSPad is better be seen as "General Scripting" program -- lacking the common toolbars and tabs, that support html-editing

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3. HTML Builder XP light
   • The "TagInspector tab" shows any available attribute for the current html-tag
   • Preview (IE+Gecko) + HTML-Reference/Docu integration (but access to reference only by mouse, not by keyboard *grrr*)
   • basic html-tidy integration (but no TopStyle or any other css editing support)
   • No project support, but file explorer + FTP support
4. 1st Page 2000
   • Collection of some JavaScripts (and even some Perl scripts)
   • Preview + non-context-sensitive :-( HTML-Reference integration
   • No TopStyle integration, and only basic html-tidy integration
   • No project support; FTP support by an additionally downloadable module
   • (It was(/is) quite good, but it's seems to be outdated by the other programs.)
5. Weaverslave
   • Basic supports for editor side includefiles
   • The "TagInspector tab" shows any available attribute for the current html-tag
   • Preview + rudimentary HTML-Reference integration
   • Unfortunately: neither html-tidy, nor TopStyle integration (only basic syntax-highlighting for css)
   • No project support, but file explorer + CVS integration (but no FTP)
6. Phase 5
   • Supports editor side include-files
   • Good project support
   • Preview
   • No HTML-reference, TopStyle, html-tidy or FTP

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7. Scribe!
   • Preview (but was broken for me) + rudimentary HTML-Reference integration
   • Instead of TopStyle an own quite good css-editor is used (but no real competition to TopStyle)
   • Basic project support + FTP support
   • Supports include-files (but can not compete with Phase5)
8. MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004
   • Preview, html-tidy and project integration/support
   • No HTML-reference, TopStyle or FTP
9. Alleycode HTML Editor
   • No internal Preview, HTML-reference, TopStyle, html-tidy, project or FTP

CSS Editor

• TopStyle

  The reference program for css-editing -- and it's free Already integrated by several commercial and freeware web-editors

HTML WYSIWYG Programs

1. Nvu

   Open-source WinWord-syle-like typing of textual content Integrated quite good css-editor (I recommend Nvu for typing the content/text -- and one of the topmost "HTML Source-Code Editing Program" for the actual design phase) (And always use "Tools >> Markup cleaner" after a while. It's simple, efficient and necessary!)

2. Amaya
   • Open-source -- as proof-of-concept implementation of the w3c
   • (Produced wrong preview)

SVG Editor

• WebDwarf V2

General Purpose Editors (e.g. PHP et al.)

1. SciTE

   Open-source Based on the (open-source) Scintilla editor-engine Great many script- and programming-languages supported

2. .Edit
   • Exceptional auto-completion (even for html tags and attributes)
   • Rudementary toolbars for html (but lacking common menus and tabs to qualify as proper HTML editor)
   • Preview + FTP
   • (It's not yet clear, whether it will be freeware after the current beta-phase)

FTP Clients

1. FTP-Uploader

   Easy and commonly known Excludes can be defined Mirroring supported (locally deleted files are automatically deleted of on the server, too) Project-Support: Management of already transfered files (reducing upload time)

2. FileZilla
   • Open-source
   • SFTP support
3. CoreFTP
   • SFTP, browser integration

• [ Actually there are many free FTP-Clients! ]

HTML-Kit Plug-ins

• includeHTML -- provides editor side includes (the standard installer includes the HTML-Kit plug-in)
• W3C HTML / CSS References (offline reading)
• cmBatchReplace
• hkBlockIndent
• irImgBrowser
• [ And there are many, many more ... ]

Basic Tools

• HTML-Tidy -- allows page-validation (plus reformatting et al.)
• MOZiE -- allows to compare page rendering in Mozilla and Internet Explorer simultaneously
• Mozilla ActiveX Control -- needed by MOZiE, HTML-Kit and HTML Builder XP light
• includeHTML -- provides editor side includes (stand-alone and HTML-Kit plug-in)
• SelfHTML as chm-file, originally provided by Wolfgang Reszel. And easily used with a keyboard-shortcut, whereas WinKey could prove useful