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HTML editor for Macs

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

I’ve been work­ing on a project design­ing a per­sonal web­site for AWelkin. Last Fri­day, I gave her the tem­plates I’d con­structed for her. She seemed pretty excited & happy with them, but then I tried to start show­ing her how to edit them; only to find that she doesn’t have any good tools for doing such a thing. The only real edi­tor she had was TextE­dit (I think it just comes with OS X) and it doesn’t do syn­tax high­light­ing; which would make life hard for her. Since I don’t have a Mac¹; I couldn’t really offer rec­om­men­da­tions to her.

The only edi­tor for Macs that I’d heard of is BBE­dit but I had heard that was a rather com­plex pro­gram and I really thought it was more than she’d need. Then I talked to my local Mac geek and found out that BBE­dit is really expen­sive! So I asked if he could rec­om­mend any other cheaper/simpler edi­tors. He did a bit of search­ing and said Page­Spin­ner would be a good option. I looked at the Page­Spin­ner web­site and it uses valid HTML; which is a good sign. The screen­shots also looked promis­ing, but were kind of small and there doesn’t appear to be any larger ver­sions avail­able². On the plus side, the fea­ture list for Page­Spin­ner does appear to cover every­thing that I think AWelkin would need (e.g. syn­tax high­light­ing and a pre­view function).

Any­hoo, I’m post­ing this note in hopes that AWelkin might read it and let me know if this Page­Spin­ner pro­gram will work for her.

¹ I’m not a PC evan­ge­list or a Mac-Hater. I just don’t have the money to buy a Mac right now and I’m not likely to any time soon. Oh and for the record, those 15 inch G4 Power­books look like the sweet­est lap­tops on this planet!
² Guys, you really need to get some larger screen­shots up. Some of us are nearly blind as it is and try­ing to look at your prod­uct from tiny shots like these really doesn’t help our eye­sight. So please, please, please post some larger images for us to look at. Remem­ber, not every­body vis­it­ing your site will be will­ing to down­load your app just to see if it will work for them; they may be stuck using Win­Blows and try­ing to find some­thing suit­able for their Mac using friends.

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