HTML Authoring Software

OK. You've decided it is time to create the definitive Web Site - the best site that people have ever seen in their entire lives. However, there is just one minor detail - how do you actually create the pages?
This section is devoted to answering part of that question, by providing information on as many of the Amiga HTML authoring packages as possible.

Before I list the packages, I want to point out that there is no such thing as a WYSIWYG HTML editor - not for the Amiga, nor for any platform.

HTML is a content-markup language, designed to be rendered on a very wide range of devices, from 1600x1200 24-bit workstations, through 800x600 256 colour systems, to monotype teletype machines, to braille devices, to text-to-speech devices, and several which no-one as even conceived yet - so there is no way that HMTL can be WYSIWYG! As long as you bear that in mind if you are using a Visual HTML editor, then you won't go far wrong...

HTML Editors

Editor	Price	Minimum Requirements			Comment
Editor	Price	OS	RAM	Other	Comment
WWW Publishing Extention for GoldEd 4	Free			GoldEd 4	The WWW Publishing Extention adds two toolbars plus a menu entry to GoldEd, which significantly simplify the addition of HTML entities (e.g. you can drag-select a word or block of words, then with one click turn them into a heading, or turn them into a link, etc).
GoldEd 6	89.90DM (US$55)	OS3.0	2M	68020	This is an updated version of the WWW Publishing Extentions available for GoldEd4, but this time they are bundled together with GoldEd 6, saving you the trouble of the extra downloading and installation.
HTML Heaven	Free with AWeb-II				This is a suite of 6 programs which interface with a wide range of text editors via AREXX. It is designed to speed up and simplify the creation of HTML, and (again via AREXX) uses your favourite web borwser to display the HTML you have created, offering a graphical preview at teh click of a button.
hsc	Free	OS2.04	2M	68020, "make" utility	HSC is unlike any other HMTL editor. It is conceptually closer to a "compiler", in that it allows you to create a "makefile" which contains details of all your pages (and any dependancies), and will "recompile"as necessary, all automatically. It allows you to create very powerful macros, greatly simplifying creation and control of multiple pages.
IBiza	US$5	OS3.0			Ibiza is a precompiler for HTML-pages. It makes it possible to enter variables to the code. This works with a simple "Include" tag named <IBIZA>. If the compiler find this tag, it will insert the code selected as parameter in the tag. Another tag is supported named <ARGUMENT>. It is useful to create filelists of indexfiles.
KidHTML V1.25	US$10 (shareware)	OS3.0		Any browser	This editor is slightly different from all the others. It is not an HTML text editor (you do not need to know HTML to be able to create web pages with KidHTML), However, nor is it a "WYSIWYH" HTML editor. KidHTML uses an easy-to-use GUI to help you to create web pages, which you then view on your browser to check the result. Also available is Shazzan, a font utility for web page creation.
MetalWeb V4.0	US$25 (shareware)	OS3.0	8M	MUI 3.7	This is a drag'n'drop based graphical HTML editor. It requires no knowledge of HTML; instead, it operates more like a text publisher, hiding the raw HTML from you. MetalWeb is probably the most powerful "WYSIWYH" HTML editor available for the Amiga.
MWM	US$25 (Shareware)
PageMonster	US$69.95 (Commercial)	OS3.0	6M	AmigaVision	Pagemonster incorporates an easy to use point and click interface with a modular, non-linear approach to the construction of web pages. This method allows you to gather, arrange and preview all the elements that will comprise your final page into an unlimited number of layouts before saving. Includes digitised voice narration to help guide you through the design process.
Web Constructor	£22 (Shareware)			MUI 3.8	This WYWIWYG-based HTML creation suite includes tools to help creation of tables and JavaScript, as well as full HTML4.0 support. Also included is the ability to edit your pages directly on your web site (accessing transparently via FTP). Includes both a Preview window to get an impression of how the HTML will look, and linking directly to your web browser for full viewing of the pages. Presently in Beta.
Web Design	US$25 (Shareware)
Web Maker	Up to you (Shareware)			MUI 3.1
Web Plug	US$10 (Shareware)			MUI 3.2	As the Web Plug website explains, webPlug is an HTML editor for the Amiga.. Basically, is a text editor with lots of HTML specific features that helps you when creating your web sites. It makes use of datatypes to allow viewing of all types of images. Web Plug makes use of any Amiga browser, so that you can view the resulting HTML in your favourite browser (or in different browsers, to check compatability). Also available by the same author is an Image Map creation utility, Map Plug

That covers the HTML editors of which I am aware. However, there seem to be a growing number of these around, so I may well have missed some.
If you have got any information, suggestionsor recommendations for HTML authoring packages on the Amiga which I have accidentally missed out from here, or you are the author of such a package, then please drop me a line on HTML_Authoring@amiga.u-net.com - many thanks.

This page is copyright © Keith Blakemore-Noble , 1997 - 1999 , all rights reserved. For comments or questions about this page, please EMail WebMaster@BuiltWithAmiga.org. This page was last updated on December 15, 1999 .

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