The Bottom Line
Version 5 of HotDog is a vast improvement over older versions.
Pros
- Tools a developer can use like color coding
- A meta tag generator to help you improve site rank
- Macros to help speed up common tasks
Cons
- Screen flickering was annoying
- Crashed twice while testing
- Installation could be improved
Description
- Real time tag validation.
- Multi-line clipboard.
- HTML color coding.
- Meta tag generator.
- Customization to make it easier to use for all levels of users.
- Extended character set on the screen as you create.
- Easy integration with other HTML tools.
- Simple animation with DHTML built in
Guide Review - HotDog Pro 5
When I first saw HotDog Pro several years ago, I saw it as a typical HTML editor, not extremely easy to use, but not hard either. It had a lot of features, but like most HTML editors they were not compelling enough for me to drop my text editor to use it. This is a fully functional tag-based HTML editor. There are still some of the "cute" features of the original HotDog, like sounds and dog icons, but the feature set is much more robust, including things that a professional HTML developer can really use.
