Learning Objectives

• Identify desirable features in an HTML editor.
• Compare two or more HTML editors.
• Report your comparison to other participants of this class
• Select an HTML editor for your personal use
• Summarize the reason(s) that led you to choose your specific editor
• Use your editor to produce a simple HTML page

Task Materials

For this course we need an HTML editing tool. There are many to choose from. We do not need many advanced features for this basic course so pick a simple text editor with syntax highlighting.

The following text editors have syntax highlighting and are Free/Open Source tools:

• Bluefish (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows)
• BlueGriffon (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows)
• Geany (GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows)
• gEdit (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows)
• jEdit (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX,Microsoft Windows)
• Notepad++ (Microsoft Windows)

Advanced Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

• Aptana Studio
• Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers

There are online HTML editors available as well, some of which need special configuration to get working and might not let you work on local files:

• Aloha (Inline HTML5 editor)
• HTML Pad (Mozilla online HTML editor)
• JS Fiddle (JavaScript, CSS, and HTML editor online)
• Maqetta (HTML5 Interface Design Tool)