Light Weight HTML Editor for Macs

Any suggestions

[aaronjf]

We use DW MX for building and maintaining sites. However, our new system calls to HTML files for the descriptions, rather than a database. DW MX would be over kill for our copywriters. We need something that is really light weight w/ spell check and Mac compatible, since we are an all Mac all the time office. Any body have suggestions.

[Hissingsid]

Hi,

Tumult Hyperedit is a neat lightweight OS X HTML editor with CSS et al and has spell checking. Its free as well but you are invited to donate $10!

Pagespinner (Optima Systems) is much improved on OS X and includes spell check etc. It costs just £29.95 and may be just what you are looking for.

If your copywriters have used Quark Xpress in the past you could consider Softpress's Freeway. Note however that it is almost imposible to import an HTML page designed in another package into Freeway successfully. So if you are designing the template in DW for them to use this is definately not an option.

Best wishes

Sid

[aaronjf]

Hissingsid thanks for the tips.

The system is PHP. We just use DW for working on the PHP and the CSS.

The PHP CMS system then calls the the HTML files for the descriptions. The description files are just the descriptions with the formating markup ie <h1> <h2> etc.

I think PageSpinner is going to do the trick perfectly!

[davidcommunic]

Hi there,
I'm a copywriter and generally have to supply files in many formats.

My favourite lite weight one is Tex-Edit. It'll get the job done. Try a shareware archive, it's US$10.

Another fav. is BBEdit from bare bones. Old standby is Express.

Hope this helps a bit.

[258cib]

BBEdit is what I use when I don't want to contact my webmaster, but I just downloaded Pagespinner for a look-see. It's looks fab.

Thanks.

[ccity]

In my opinion, it's a no brainer. Use BBEdit.

[simmerdown]

I use jEdit
[jedit.org...]

All (well, most) of the power of BBEdit, good syntax coloring, plenty of plugins for tag completion and such, far less cluttered than PageSpinner, and free to boot.