EditPad Lite

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 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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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

Full price: $24.95 Upgrade price: no

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