Does anybody have any suggestions for a good, basic html editor? Freeware would be the best. Thanks
Mike
I found this on a Google search
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
I’ve never used it. My simple HTML editor is Notepad.
Oh, Textpad is even better. That’s downloadable but not free.
For Windows users HTML-kit is a very nice code editor.
Alternatively, NVU is a WYSIWYG web authoring package for Windows, Linux and Mac systems.
Both programs are freeware.
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Mukade
Thanks for the suggestions.
Flydood, I did the Google search, too. Too many choices! I was hoping that someone might be able to recommend an editor that they have used and found to be good.
Mike
It’s been a long time since I worked on web development but I used to really like HomeSite. I much prefered the hand coding to the programs that did it for you.
Carol
I use Note Tab Light at http://www.notetab.com and have been happy with it for years. Totally free and easy to use.
If you know your HTML coding there is no reason not to use the basic text editor on your system, e.g. vi on xNIX, or NotePad on windows.
djm
I was going to be a jerk and just say “Notepad”, which is just the kind
of smart-arsed answer I’d expect from you, djm. You let me down. 
I used notepad for my site..always have 
that said, I really can’t beat the speed at which Visual Studio lets me bang out mockups at work, so I understand the desire to use a WYSIWYG editor…I just wish they made one that I didn’t have to clean up the code afterwards
I don’t know what is smart-arsed about using NotePad. I use it on Windows all the time for HTML. The only smart-arsed reply I have seen on this thread is your own.
djm
If you you want a “simple HTML editor” to create a simple web page or edit an excisting one I’m with djm. No need to download any bundled software for web creation.
However, notepad is not a very good idea as it is not a plain texteditor, and you might run into trouble if you need to upload your code to a Unix or linux server.
Personally I wouldn’t waste time with a texteditor without line numbering and syntax highlighting, as it simplifies the editing process and speeds up any debugging.
I use a nice little text editor called Crimson for almost every editing task on my windows system. It is free and you can ad syntaxes for most things you’ll need.
Here is a link:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com
If you want to do more with your webpage and are willing to put in a few hours and really learn something usefull. There is nothing out there better and more powerfull than Typo3 in my opinion, and it is 100% free.
If you go through the “Getting started guide” in a few hours you will end up with a nice little website and the basic skills for some very powerfull webdevelopment in the future.
If you are interested in webdevelopment and want to create websites for others that are very easy to administrate and update typo3 is it!
/MarcusR
I have the feeling that many of my fellow Chiffers are either professional or amateur programmers. For example: “I used notepad for my site..always have.” Now, the only thing I know how to do with notepad is…well…write notes. I can write notes in Italian, French, Spanish, German, oh and English with varying fluency and accuracy. But I have no idea how one would write notes in the HTML language. It seems that some people out there are fluent in the languages that computers understand and can speak to them more or less directly. I have tried talking to my computer and never got a response. Of course, that may be because most of the words I have uttered to the computer were of the four-letter variety.
I think I could sit in front of my computer with Notepad running for possibly weeks without a web site appearing. My copy just doesn’t work that way. Maybe I should write a letter to Microsoft and tell them I want an upgrade to the version of Notepad that writes web sites.
Really, though, thanks to everybody who gave suggestions. I think I’ll check out the editors that let you use the mouse to point at what you want and where you want it, if they exist. (SIGH), it’s hell being a technological semi-literate in this day and age. 
The smart-arsed reply I was envisioning would be to post one word:
“Notepad”
and offer no explanation. Anyone who didn’t know that HTML was
simply code that didn’t actually need a special editor would be confused.
Hence my dissapointment.
I’ve used it, and my verdict is thumbs down. The earlier version was OK, but he rewrote it to run under java, and I found the new version hostile. I switched to somethign called PSPad, which is a programmer’s text editor. It’s like notepad but it can do line numbering, syntax highlighting, search and replace, etc., which are all features I use.
Sounds like Typo3 would be the ideal solution for you, if someone else made the layout 
Thing is, when the framework is done in typo3 the computer knowledge needed to run, change or update the webpage is about the same as writing in MS Word, use Explorer and basics of how to post an image.
Anyone capable to post on C&F would be just fine.
/MarcusR
Burnsbyrne, the way I learned HTML was with a book written for Netscape (back in the days when Netscape was the browser of choice and MS didn’t think the web would go anywhere). It was called Official HTML Publishing for Netscape. There are lots of books around that will teach you these basics.
HTML is simple text with blocks of code called Tags around each part to label how a browser should treat it. When that file is viewed with a browser, the browser acts on the tags around the text. A Tag has an opening command and a closing command, e.g. and . So for example, I could build a simple page using the tags in a text editor like NotePad:
put some tags here to define characteristics of your page, plus some META tags to attract the attention of search engine robots like Google. Insert special programs written in Javascript language for fancy effects. Put the main stuff of yur web page here. Add tags for additional fancy effects, tables, links to other sites, etc.There you go. Now you know HTML. All you need to do now is go and research how to do all the stuff that goes in between. Get some books. I was not trained as a programmer. I taught myself with books. There’s enough free information, even full courses, available on the web for anyone to get started.
If this is too much effort compared to what you want to accomplish, that’s what all those programs are for that do the coding for you. You can tell by the wide range of choices of these programs that there are lots of folks who feel the same way. Nothing to be ashamed of.
djm
Mike, I don’t know what your purpose is, but obviously if you are going to do some html you have web space somewhere. Usually, I think, the folks providing the web space (if it’s part of an email package or something) also have some free templates you can use for simple pages. HomeSite would not be good for you if you’re not already familiar with html.
Carol
Then just try a free webpage creator.
I never used one so I cant recomend anything.
Do a search on “webpage generator”, “webpage creator” or “html code generator” … in Google and you will find a few thousand hits.
Here is one: PCman web creator
Should be workable for anyone that can type and operate a mouse 
/MarcusR
Carol, I do have a web site that comes free with my internet service. What I originally wanted to do is to post some old photos in a place that my far-flung siblings would be able to see. If I have to study for months to do that then forget it I think the misunderstanding here was caused by my use of the word “editor”. I see now that “editor” assumed that I know something about html programming. So, now that I know that “editor” is not the right word to use I’ll try this:
I have free “web space” and I know absolutely nothing about how or why “web space” exists or how to fill said space. I am told that I could post photos on this “web space” and then put them in other places, like Chiff&Fipple. Does anybody have experience with a program to do this that requires no knowledge of programming whatsoever and includes detailed, step by step instructions that even a 54 year old former English major would understand?
I think that would have been a better place to start. 
You could probably do this using the “save as HTML” feature in MS word. If you can insert a picture into a word document, you can produce a page that will work.
I think–I’ve never tried it.