Which application should I use to create HTML? I have heard that TextEdit should work, but it doesn't allow me to save a file with the .htm extension.

In the PC world I use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, however, my company is reluctant to buy me a Mac version, so, I downloaded TacoHTML from www.tacosw.com (http://www.tacosw.com) It's freeware and has syntax highlighting as well. I had another freebie as well but I liked this one better and removed the other - I don't remember the name of it though.

Anyways, I'm sure a google search will reveal a few choices of freeware html editors out there.

If you're a masochist, you could use vi tongue.gif

Personally I prefer SubEthaEdit (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit), although there are several really good editors out there.

Also, if you want to save .htm files in TextEdit, you need to go to the Preferences, and choose Plain Text files.

You can then save them as .htm, but it will ask you to append the .txt extension, but you can say no.

Any reason why you are saving the files as .htm rather then .html?

There isn't really any reason that I am saving them as .htm - I thought that .htm and .html were the same thing. And on TextEdit, I can only choose rtf or some other file but its not plain files. Perhaps there is a newer version that I could download that has this....I will check.

In the TextEdit preferences, under "New Document Attributes" select "Plain Text", and just for fun under "Rich Text Processing" check "Ignore RichText commands in HTML files".

When you save a document, call it whatever.html and when it asks you to append a .txt extension click the button that says "Don't Append".

Alternately, you could use SubEthaEdit (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/) (which is what I prefer to use) or HyperEdit (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~deutschj/HyperEdit/) (which is cool, but lags on my older system a bit too much for my taste).

BBEdit works pretty well for HTML writing.

Though there is no denying the power of BBEdit, SubEthaEdit has one major advantage: It's free. ;)

Though there is no denying the power of BBEdit, SubEthaEdit has one major advantage: It's free. i think the "rendezvous-document-sharing" thing is pretty cool. but it's a nice editor otherwise -- it's the one i use.

If you're a masochist, you could use vi graemlins/lmao.gif graemlins/lmao.gif graemlins/lmao.gif indeed. only a 14-week learning curve (to figure out how to insert a single character into the doc), but apparently you'll never look back.

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