Posted by patrick j on 11/20/06 23:23

will.appleby@gmail.com wrote:

> Please can anyone suggest either how I go about editing HTML on the
> mac, or any web editing software which is either free or relatively
> cheap which would make this sort of thing easier.

Hi

As dorayme has suggested TextWrangler is free and very good for editing
HTML.

You can get it here:

<http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml>

A cheap HTML editor, that I've never used personally, but has many fans
is Page Spinner which comes from here:

<http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/>

Your experience with TextEdit is not unsurprising because the name
suggests rather that it will behave as you thought it would, open the
HTML file showing the mark up. I think TextEdit is an oddly named
application but it is very useful indeed for other things. If you
explore it a bit you'll find it is a surprisingly capable word
processor with quite good table creating capabilities and the like.

However, I think you'll find TextWrangler behaves as you anticipated
TextEdit was going to.

Best of luck with the Mac. I think once you get the hang of it you'll
find you really like it.

--
Patrick
Brighton, UK

<http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>

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