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What You Read Is What You Get?

© Arnvid Aakre

Ever "visualized" persons you read about in a novel?

"Tasted" the food when reading recipes or "smelt" the flowers described in a poetry? Well, then you are reading between the lines...

Then there come along a guy telling you to stop doing this. Read only the letters, plain words and sentences - as that is the only correct way to read.

Do you listen, or do you know better?

What when there come along an html guru saying that the only way to make web sites is by writing it all by hand in a plain text pad. Then you suddenly listen, wondering: "am I doing something wrong?"

Well, are you doing something wrong?

So far I have been presenting editors you write direct html coding with, or template driven html editors. So the time has come to mention those "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) editors. Some love them, and many "would like to be gurus" hate them.

Personally I can only say that I deeply mistrust anyone trying to pretend he or she hold the ultimate truth. Same goes for html editors in my book, so please forget all those who believe they know so much better - in the end it all come down to what you need. That's what we are here to find out at least.

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Basically a WYSIWYG editor is an editor who let you work visually - in many of them you don't even have to know how to write a single html code.

The three leading WYSIWYG editors are Macromedias Dreamweaver, NetObject's Fusion and Microsoft's FrontPage.

There are others as well, not at least Namo WebEditor. Don't let you fool by the fact that last is made in Korea. If you read this review from CNET, you will understand why.

Normally the price is high for WYSIWYG editors, but there is always those around which money can't buy. You find a good list here.

Let me start with a standard minus often mentioned for WYSIWYG editors - the html coding! Especially if one converts a normal built page/site to WYSIWYG, as one then can end up with quite a grumbling code - far from the best HTML standard. Microsoft FrontPage was a known disaster here, although what I hear from those who use "FrontPage" today - the 2000 version is a very different story. Let's face it, they have resources to "clean up" when they want (-:

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