| Developing a successful website that you're proud of | | | | order to keep the article publishing software from |
| is not as hard as you may think. Especially nowadays, | | | | handling it like normal HTML.) |
| because there is software available that takes on | | | | But instead, this is what you get: "Discover the best |
| much of the work that used to be relegated to the | | | | places to SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands." Even |
| webmaster (which is you!). | | | | though you highlighted the words "best places" and |
| In the past, in order to build web pages from | | | | clicked the little graphical icon on your html editor's |
| scratch, you had to know HTML, or "Hyper Text | | | | toolbar that represented italics, your phrase comes |
| Markup Language." And truth be told, you are still | | | | out non-italicized. And your bolded words are not |
| better off knowing at least the basics of HTML. | | | | bolded. |
| Nevertheless, it's not required. Especially if you find | | | | Well, in this instance, you'd have to go to the |
| easy web design software that does the main work | | | | "Source View" of your HTML editor and manually |
| takes care of this for you. Now, every single HTML | | | | insert the above HTML tags to make these things |
| editor on the planet now features a "WYSIWYG" | | | | happen. This is a very annoying problem with too |
| interface. (What You See Is What You Get.) So, | | | | many popular web design software titles nowadays. |
| theoretically, you shouldn't have to know the first | | | | Another problem that will have you pulling your hair |
| thing about HTML tags. | | | | out, is seeing a totally different result in the web |
| The truth is, however, not all HTML editors (or "web | | | | browser than you see in your HTML editor window. |
| design software") does WYSIWYG well. Little | | | | For example, your formatting changes are |
| annoying problems tend to crop up. For example, say | | | | (apparently) taking effect as you type--just as it |
| you typed the following sentence using your handy | | | | should (remember it's advertised as WYSIWYG)... |
| HTML editor: | | | | However, they don't show up when you publish the |
| "Discover the best places to SCUBA dive in the | | | | page to the internet! I don't know why, but this |
| Cayman Islands." Say you want "best places" to be | | | | problem still plagues most web design software to |
| italicized and "Cayman Islands" to be bolded. Here's | | | | this day. |
| what's supposed to happen: | | | | Lucky for you, there are a few (very few) good |
| Behind the scenes, your HTML editor is supposed to | | | | software titles that work for cheap, while doing all |
| 'type' the phrase as such: Discover the best places to | | | | the other things to make your site professional and |
| SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands. (Extra spaces | | | | (if you want) draw visitors by the hundreds. |
| were added between the tags for this example, in | | | | |