Editors that’ll flip your whizzy-wig
Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized
Web browsers are multilingual; they understand exotic-sounding languages such as FTP, HTTP, and GIF, among others. But one language
browsers don’t speak is English. Browsers don’t understand instructions such as “Put that image there” or “Make that text italic.” HyperText
Markup Language, or HTML, is a translator, if you will, between human languages and Web languages.
If the thought of HTML strikes fear into your heart, relax. Thanks to modern Web page creation tools, you don’t have to master HTML in
order to create Web pages. Although knowing a little HTML does come in handy at times, you can depend on these special user-friendly tools
to do almost all your English-to-HTML translations for you.
The secret of these Web page creation tools is their WYSIWYG (pronounced whizzy-wig) display. WYSIWYG stands for “What You See Is What You Get.” A WYSIWYG editor lets you see onscreen how your page will look when it’s on the Web, rather than force you to type (or even see) HTML commands like this:
This is a Level 1 Heading
This is an image of
Lucy.
A WYSIWYG editor, such as CoffeeCup HTML Editor for Windows (www.coffeecup.com), shows you how the page appears even as you
assemble it. Besides that, it lets you format text and add images by means of familiar software shortcuts such as menus and buttons.
Taken from : Starting An Online Business For Dummies 4th Editions
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