Text editors are HTML editors that allow you to manipulate the HTML tags directly. Some HTML text editors also include a WYSIWYG editor, while others are purely text. This is my list of the best HTML text editors for Windows.
Stylus Studio XML Home edition and Professional Suite are both powerful XML editors with a lot of features. From a Web design standpoint the main difference is that Home edition is specifically for students and casual home users and it doesn't have a spell checker. If you're doing a lot of XML development along with your Web page design, either of these packages would work for you.
Trellian WebPage is one of the few free Web editors that offers both WYSIWYG functionality and image editing within the software. It also allows you to use Photoshop plugins to customize it even more.
HTML Assistant Pro helps you build Web pages with HTML without a lot of extraneous features. There are many assistants to help you learn to write HTML and it has a special QuickFrames tool to help you build frames more easily.
Stylus Studio XML Home edition and Professional Suite are both powerful XML editors with a lot of features. From a Web design standpoint the main difference is that Home edition is specifically for students and casual home users and it doesn't have a spell checker. If you're doing a lot of XML development along with your Web page design, either of these packages would work for you.
ColdFusion is not exactly a Web page editor, as it acts as both the editor and the back end server to handle complex functions. You need to have ColdFusion running on your Web server, and in the most recent versions it is primarily server software and much less the editor to write CFM files.
Cream extends Vim to make it easier to use for the average person. If you're used to using Vi or Vim but are tired of having to remember all the commands, then Cream is a great alternative. It doesn't come out of the box with a lot of HTML support, but there are add-ons you can get for both Vim and Cream to make it handle HTML editing more effectively.
Like vi, Emacs is found on most Unix systems and Mac systems which makes it easy for you to edit a page even if you don't have your standard software. Emacs is a lot more complicated than vi and so offers more features, but I find it harder to use. Feature highlights: XML support, scripting support, advanced CSS support, and a built-in validator, as well as color coded XHTML editing.
jEdit is a text editor written in Java. It is primarily a text editor, but includes things like support for unicode, color coding, and allows for macros to add-in features. Feature highlights: XML support, scripting support, advanced CSS support, and international support as well as color coded text XHTML editing.
Xeena is a free XML editor from IBM. It can be used to edit Web pages as well as XML. You need to get an IBM account to download.
XML Notepad is an XML editor that you can use to edit XHTML documents. MS XML Notepad requires .Net Framework.
Do you have a Web editor that you absolutely love or positively hate? Write a review of your HTML editor and let others know which editor you think is the best.