How to learn to love your Text Editor

P2PU School of Webcraft Exercise #3

  Type in HTML text editor in Google and you'll get about 175,000,000 hits. I plan to list each one in this post and quiz you shortly after. Not! There are a ton of text editors out there and much like dating you need to try a few until you find the one you want to marry or partner with or co-habitate with....

 The exercise  today is to choose a text editor. This exercise is broken into 4 challenges designed to help you find the perfect text editor to suit your style. I've used TextWrangler for other projects in the past and it is pretty much all I need at this time. When we get into CSS this may change.

 TextWrangler is a text editor for use on Mac Intel computers running OSX 10.6.8 or later and can be used for Html. If you venture forth into other programming adventure TextWrangler can also be used forXHTML, XML, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Java, ANSI C, C++, Objective-C. When using TextWrangler it will finish the tag for you, color tags and also tell you of errors while you are marking up your webpage.

Now the 3 exercise wants us to recreate the "Hello World" page using our new found friend for life the Text Editor. Below is how my version of yellow world looks in TextWrangler.

  Here it is as displayed in Safari

 So there you have it. I choose TextWrangler to join me down this road of HTML discovery. Hand in hand we stroll into the sunset...Aww crap I can't even take the crude that comes out of my mouth.

Good luck until exercise 4