Designing your own writer’s website is pretty easy for everyone. So if you do not have a website to search for work or advertise your work then you are missing out on an opportunity to promote yourself and your writing.

 

Almost anyone can design a website today using one of the most popular HyperText Markup Language (HTML) editors. The advantage of these editors is you do not need to know HTML to construct your website. It is pretty much like using a word processing program and these editors automatically convert your words and design into HTML code for publishing your webpage on the Internet.

 

HTML Editors allow you to create text, color, and images so presentation on the page is ”What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG),” because as you design the webpage you get a somewhat realistic view of what you see.  However to see the actual view you will need to select the temporary publish button in the HTML Editor to see the actual view. HTML Editors:

 

Allow you to add hyper links to:

 

Other websites

Your and others Blogs

Locations on the same page

 

Also, you can insert:

 

Images

Clip Art

Video clips

Audio files of your favorite songs

 

HTML Editors Advantages and Disadvantages

 

The advantages of HTML Editors include:

 

• Ease of use for beginners
• The ability to focus on the design
• Fast designing
• Fewer mistakes
• No need to know HTML code
• A way of beginning to learn HTML code

 

Disadvantages, however still not a problem for HTML Editors include:

 

• Having to learn the specific HTML’s software program to design your website
• Little control over specific operations due to software design
• Lots of clicking back and forth to check work to check your work, however you get used to it

 

List of HTML Editors

 

Some of the most popular HTML Editors for Windows based computers are:

 

Dreamweaver

Microsoft Expression Web (replacement for Microsoft FrontPage)

Adobe GoLive

 

The most popular HTML Editors for Macintosh based computers are:

 

Dreamweaver

Adobe GoLive

Kornposer

 

If you are using Unix/Linux based computer, the most popular HTML editors are:

 

Kornposer

Amaya

Quanta Plus