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EditPad Lite

Text Editor for Windows

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EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite

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About EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite is a text editor that includes snippets and clips for writing HTML. It offers a lot of nice features for manipulating text. It even handles writing text in double-byte characters. It is available free for non-commercial use, otherwise it costs $24.95.

Target Market(s): Newcomers to Web Design

Review last updated: October 27, 2011.

EditPad Lite Latest Review

EditPad Lite Version: 7.0.8
Score: 78
Percent: 23%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.

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EditPad Lite Technical Details

Operating System(s): Windows

EditPad Lite Features

  • Text editor
  • FTP or Site manager
  • Search and replace
  • Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
  • Special character tools
  • Can edit JavaScript
  • Additional CSS assistance
  • No limits on free or trial version
  • No subscription fee required

What’s Missing from EditPad Lite

  • WYSIWYG editor
  • HTML validator
  • Accessibility validator
  • CSS validator
  • XML validator
  • Page preview
  • Alternate browser or OS preview
  • Mobile device preview
  • Mobile scripts, functions, or links
  • Create mobile web applications
  • Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
  • Save pages as HTML with DTD
  • Write HTML 5 documents
  • Write XHTML documents
  • Color coding
  • Tag completion
  • FTPs or Secure FTP
  • Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
  • Edit images
  • Connects to graphics software
  • Multimedia functions
  • Assistance with adding videos to websites
  • Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
  • Save Adobe AIR files
  • Save files as PDF
  • Link checker
  • Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
  • Can edit CSS
  • CSS 3 properties and selectors
  • CSS3 media queries tools built-in
  • Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
  • Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
  • Database connectivity
  • Edit XML and/or RSS
  • Google sitemaps
  • Spell checking
  • Save snippets of code
  • Writes to blogs
  • Free templates
  • Free scripts
  • Form wizard
  • Photo gallery builder
  • Ecommerce tools
  • SEO assistance built-in
  • Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
  • Version control
  • Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
  • Customizable or extendable

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Full price: $24.95 Upgrade price: no

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User Reviews
5 out of 5
Yahoo SiteBuilder 2.8, Member Carl Lewis

This is the best web editor there is. For ease-of-use, it can't be beat. The user interface is much like windows, so there is almost no learning curve. You can have your first web site up and running…More

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