Chapter 15. Using Web Authoring Tools

In this lesson, you will learn where to find some of the most popular Web page authoring tools and how you can use them to create your Web site.

Why Use a Tool?

You’ve just spent the last 14 lessons learning how to create Web pages by yourself, so why would you want to use a tool? The biggest reasons are time and ease of use. The Web is a very visual medium and staring at HTML code in a text editor is not very visually stimulating. It’s easy to forget to be creative when you are concentrating so hard on making sure that you’re using the correct HTML tags and putting them in the proper place in the document.

Web page authoring tools come with enough bells and whistles to get your Web site started in no time, and ...

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