A Free HTML Editor

Are you considering digging into HTML, CSS, JavaScript and all the other web trickery languages that make the web work? Or are you just interested in a free editor to help you brain dump your web design skills onto your editor palette of choice?

Well, I’ve got a great a editor to do just that. It’s HTML-Kit and it’s FREE!!

Here’s the description from their website:

HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. Over 400 plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards -compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has been downloaded by millions of developers and has received 95% thumbs up out of 2900+ Download.com user reviews.

Some of the features I use and like in HTML-Kit is that first and foremost it’s free and you can’t beat that. It’s also a program that’s fast-loading. If you’ve tried a bunch of different software during the course of your software travels, you can tell the difference between what’s klunky and what’s quickly. HTML-Kit is quickly. Just some advanced english. 🙂 In other words, it loads quickly when you start it and most, if not all of its features load quickly.

For newbies looking to learn HTML for the first time, HTML-Kit create a bare bones HTML document that is complete. In other words all you have to do is add some text and you can preview a simple web page right a way (see below).

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There’s also a feature called Active Preview. Active Preview allows you to edit your HTML in one window and see what it looks like in an active browser window that updates after a few seconds of typing. The screen below show some text I typed in on the left-hand editor window and while I paused at each sentence, the Active Preview window updated auto-magically. Pretty cool. Beats Notepad any day. 🙂

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Here’s a link to all the goodies that HTML-Kit offers. Check it out. There’s also a very strong community of folks who have written over 400 plugins to make sure everyone gets what they want out of HTML-Kit.

[techtags: HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP]