Monday, May 26, 2008

Power Tools - Week 2

MacDonald discusses several HTML editors and their advantages, features, and disadvantages. I have explored a few of them, and I have decided to move ahead with Nvu as my HTML editor. I do not have access to FrontPage or Dreamweaver, so despite their amazing features, I cannot further explore their possibilities.

Some of the things I like about Nvu include:
- Free!!
- Available for my iMac
- Multiple views to examine my design, including color-coded HTML tags for easy identification and the fabulous WYSIWYG view. I am not a programmer, so that view is much more like the desktop publishing software with which I am most familiar.
- Similarities to other software include the all-important "undo" feature, and most of the menus are similar to typical office software.

In creating a test page, I really enjoyed the process and made a great start toward my site template. See the results at http://myweb.usf.edu/~mjosephs/Nvutest.html

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