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Many Web authors, particularly newcomers, believe that they must spend $40 to $70 to get a decent Web page editing program. In reality, you don't need to spend a dime to get an excellent program that'll do everything the big, commercial programs do.
Below, we offer a roundup of the top free Web editing programs around.
Even if you know nothing about HTML coding, these programs can make the process of building a Web site relatively painless. Many of these programs will basically write the code for you. Others offer a wealth of must-have features, such as checking the validity of your coding, spell checking, link checking, and automatically uploading your Web pages.
It's true: you can design a Web page using nothing more than Windows' built-in Notepad text editor. But with the many fabulous, free, feature-packed Web editing programs available, why bother?
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 EasyHTML - Here's an easy-to-use, feature-packed free Web page editor from Finland. Offers many helpful options such as the ability to edit multiple pages simultaneously. Also features such goodies as floating toolbars, a built-in browser and JavaScripts that you can easily add to your page. It's also one of the few HTML editors compatible with Microsoft's IntelliMouse. (For Windows 95/98/NT). Available in English and Finnish versions.
 tBeam - Templates are a convenient way to make professional-looking Web pages. And tBeam, a nice freeware program is a great way to make Web pages. tBeam is a template-based Web site editor and manager for personal homepages. Note: tBeam is still in alpha. "Use at your own risk."
- Web-O-Rama Web page editor - This is a full-featured editor with a nice interface and many useful features, including intuitive forms for adding images, tables, links, lists, sounds, hex values, frames and more. All forms can be kept on top as floating toolbars. Other features include directory drop-down menus, a status bar with helpful info, a "find & replace" feature, auto-conversion of keyboard characters and more. Free, but donations are accepted.
- Amaya - From the gatekeepers of the Web, W3C, comes this free, highly useful Web authoring tool & browser combination program. Amaya has tons of features, such as WYSIWYG and a spell checker and is evolving all the time. You don't need to know HTML to build a Web page with Amaya. Available for Windows and Unix. Here's a screen shot.
- Arachnophilia
- Don't spend $50 on a commercial Web authoring program until you've tried this cool free program. Arachnophilia is an outstanding Web editor, bursting with features. It'll import fully formatted text, tables, and outlines from any Win 95-compliant application and automatically convert it to HTML. It also has built-in FTP capabilities that can automatically upload files (although it can't delete files, like a true FTP client can). Powerful keyboard macros can include system commands---even other macros, for maximum flexibility. For Win 95/NT. 1.76 megabytes.
- WindowHTML - Excellent free Web authoring tool that lets you create cool-looking Windows-like HTML pages. Easy to use. For Windows. 129 kilobytes.
- Jive - Here's a new free editor for coding HTML. It isn't a WYSIWYG editor, but you may add your own custom macros to do tags. You can customize menus to be labeled as you like, and you may place in the menus the tags you prefer. An advanced knowledge of HTML is recommended. For Win 95/98.
- EZpad - A powerful, free Web editor from Iceland, EZpad offers everything you need to quickly and efficiently build your Web site. Features include numerous "wizards" that help you code everything from frames to fonts. There's also a HTML previewer, menu & buttons for common tags, drag & drop capability and tons more. Here's a screen shot. For Windows: 1.4 megs.
- SiteAid HTML Editor - An excellent free Web editor, SiteAid offers features like multiple tag insertion methods and many quick wizard forms. It also automates such tedious tasks such as body selections, tables, lists and frames. Click here for a screen shot.(For Windows: 2.27 megs)
- WebWerx
- This is a good, solid freeware Web authoring program that offers goodies like
intelligent tag insertion, intuitive shortcut keys, easy
access for your preferred browser, and more.
- HTML Builder - A useful free 32-bit Web authoring tool. Offers HTML 3.2 capabilities, forms support, drag & drop, spell checker and much more.
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