Adobe Spectra 1.0 (Media Only) for PC (VL-10SPE-NT-USCD)

Pros: autocomplete, intellisense help, tabbed access to tags and files, validator, excellent HTML reference
Cons: no XML tools

I have been writing HTML pages for a long time. When left to my own devices I usually use BBEdit or Notepad or vi or some other text editor. I like text editors, and since I know most of the tags I need, I am not inhibited by not having a cheat sheet or...

Pros: new deployment wizard and other tools
Cons: - (still no XML parser)

If you are a registered user of HomeSite 4.0, you may have been greeted recently with a popup window, that tells you that a new version of HomeSite is available. I had a few minutes time, downloaded the evaluation version 4.5 and checked it out.
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Pros: Great Editor
Cons: Hard for people who don't know HTML

Please Note - I wanted to do a review of WYSIWYG Editors Vs. Text Editors, but there is no section for this type of review so what I have decided to do is write up 2 maybe 3 reviews of my favorite HTML editors and compare them.
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Pros: Creates perfect pages, intuitive, outstanding features and verification tools
Cons: None! It just keeps getting better!

Homesite is by far the premier html editor. After trying other innovative products, I appreciate Homesite even more! My experience with web design began several years ago with Notepad, some printouts of online HTML tutorials and a little help from my...

Pros: Very powerful, lots of capabilities, easy to use
Cons: A bug telling about consumed resources

Whether you are a beginner or and expert, an amateur or a professional web developer, Homesite is the ultimate web authoring tool you should use.

Basically, it is a text html editor. With this feature, it would be usually preferred by web...

Pros: easy to use, creates clean code
Cons: doesn't allow for previewing frames, better for HTML editing than for designing

This past week, I started a new job (finally) as a web designer at a small company. Among the perks of this position are all the cool programs on the computer I've inherited. I've played with a lot of these programs before, but Homesite was new to me....

Pros: Excellent editor, tutorials and features
Cons: None I can think of

If you're looking for a great HTML editor, look no further than HomeSite. I have version 4.5, and I find it an excellent program, with no faults that I've come across. It's features are easy to use, and to pick up when you first learn the program.
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Pros: JavaScript, CSS support, color coding, global replace, snippets.
Cons: No XML support, too robust, weak help files.

So you became pretty good in using Notepad for Web design. However, you are getting more and more advanced, creating whole sites. Your desk is overflowing with notes, Web page names, image names and much more, so that you can keep track on the Web site...

Pros: Writing HTML and viewing the results in a browser has never been easier or quicker.
Cons: Occasional program crashes resulting in data loss; annoying leftover temp files.

When I first started at my current job, as a developer/webmaster for numerous different sites at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in Pasadena, my only experience with HTML was what little tinkering around I'd managed to do during off-hours in...

Pros: light-weight and fast
Cons: hardly any!

I have started using HomeSite when version 2.0 came out. At that time I had compared it against HotDog, later against MS FrontPage and HotMetal.

HomeSite has some visual drag and drop tools e.g. you can drag an image in a link or you can drag...

Pros: Price, HTML-validator, HTML tag reference, tag completion, color coding, support for external features and advanced Internet Applications.
Cons: Absolutely none.

I first began creating web pages in 1997, near the time I was graduating from school. Back then there weren't nearly as many wonderful tools available to budding HTML-junkies as there are now, and I had no idea where to begin.

I tried my hand...

Pros: Easy to learn and use; built in validator and spell checker; multipage search, replace, and simultaneous editing; requires users to have some clue about HTML before just plunging in
Cons: CGI and PHP support lacking; WYSIWYG aspects not perfect, but better than most; price

I started designing web sites back in 1995, using an awesome UNIX machine (college campus comp lab) and Pico. I did most of my web work with Pico until '97, when I found WordPad to be a little faster, and easier on the eyes. I learned HTML the old...

Pros: Fast, Color Coated, Time Saving
Cons: None Yet!

I started out doing HTML on Homesite 1.2a, a LONG time ago. Back then the tool was still rather fresh and new to me and many other people. Now I have got a copy of 4.0 and LOVE IT!

I primarly use Frontpage 2000 or NetFusion Objects 4.0 to...

Pros: Too many features to mention
Cons: Can't think of any......

As a professional HTML programmer, I find Homesite to be a tool that I could not survive without. Every aspect of the program is well thought out, and works very well. The program is great for the beginner, who is just learning HTML, because it has a...

Pros: cheap upgrade from 4.0, new split screen editing, built-in image map editor, and many more features
Cons: still no bracket matching, ftp functionality opens 2 connections to a site in order to download a file

I've been using Homesite since version 2.5 back in 1997. Next to my email client and web browser, it's the only other application that I always have running from login to shutdown. I do all my front-end development (HTML/JavaScript/DHTML/CSS) in Homesite...