I am pleased to say that I have completed my best and worst editor lists for 2009. I reviewed over 130 editors for Windows and nearly 60 editors for Macintosh, and I was able to compile several lists for you to find the editor that will work best for you.

Windows HTML Editors

• The Best Windows HTML Editors
• The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows
• The 10 Best Windows WYSIWYG Editors
• The 10 Best Windows Text HTML Editors
• The 10 Worst Windows HTML Editors
• More Windows Editors

Macintosh HTML Editors

• The Best Macintosh HTML Editors
• The 10 Best Free HTML Editors for Macintosh
• The 10 Best Macintosh WYSIWYG Editors
• The 10 Best Macintosh Text HTML Editors
• The 10 Worst Macintosh Web Editors
• More Macintosh Editors

You can tell a website designer who cares about typography when they take the time to use things like curly quotes and em dashes instead of " and -- in their text. This article, Typography on the Web is About the Little Details, covers some of the details you might be missing that could improve your site's typography.

More About Sizing Type and Typography

• Typography on the Web is About the Little Details
• Em for Font Size - Using Ems to Change Font Sizes - How Big is an Em
• Using Points, Pixels, Ems, or Percentages for CSS Fonts
• How Do You Measure Your Fonts - Do You Use Em or What?

Lately, I've been getting into calligraphy in my art. I've gotten obsessed with how the letters are formed and how to draw them effectively. In fact, I find that most of the art I'm doing tends to deal with letters in some fashion. And it's fun to use type decoratively. What's interesting is that I hadn't really thought too much about this when it comes to Web design. Sure, I have lots of information on my site about fonts and typography, but even though I put it together with my offline designs, I didn't make the connection to online.

Then I found this post on The Design Cubicle: Type is the backbone of good web design. In it, Brian discusses many simple ways to improve your designs just through how the type is displayed. I love it!

I found this post on Jens Meiert's blog today: HTML/CSS Frameworks: Useful, Universal, Usable, Unobtrusive and I really enjoyed it. I've been looking more deeply into HTML/CSS frameworks for a while now, and honestly, I hadn't found any that really met my needs. And I think a large part of that is because many of them don't meet the criteria that Jens outlines. He recommends that they be:

• Useful
• Universal
• Usable
• Unobtrusive

Most of the ones I've looked at are either not useful to me or not usable because I couldn't figure them out quickly. From my perspective, unless it's immediately obvious how a framework is going to help me improve my site designs and speed of delivery, the tool needs to be so easy to use that I can muddle through for a while until I figure it out.

Are there any frameworks that you use regularly? Do you think that they meet the criteria Jens outlined?