Other Popular Web Tools

FrontPage and Dreamweaver aren't the only Web authoring and site management tools available. Several more appear in the following list:

• Adobe GoLive http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html

• NetObjects Fusion http://www.netobjects.com/

• BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml

If you don't like the idea of a WYSIWYG tool and you prefer to continue working directly with the HTML source code, you probably will like HomeSite. With HomeSite, you can drag and drop HTML code, insert links, and modify existing tags. You can also search and replace HTML code, and when you're confused about which attributes apply to which tags, HomeSite can offer suggestions. All this makes HomeSite the choice of many professional developers. You can read more about HomeSite at http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/.

In this lesson, you've learned:

• Microsoft FrontPage is perfect for beginners. It looks like Microsoft Word and comes with many preformatted designs.

• Macromedia's Dreamweaver has advanced features, such as style sheet controls and layering, that make it perfect for professionals.

• Both tools enable you to create Web pages without knowing the HTML tags that you're learning in this book.