Use of Web Development Tools to Develop Web Sites

We have discussed that the web pages used in the WWW are develop according the rules of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Web pages written in HTML are displayed on the screen by the web browsers. Multimedia files such as sounds, videos, images can be included in an HTML file. In order to establish links between items in other web pages and other web pages in web in the Internet,
‘Hyper-links’ can be established using HTML. ‘Hyper-Links’ can be used to link multimedia files too. In web site development three major types of tools can be used.


1. Text Editors
2. Object Editors
3. WYSIWIG - Editors


1. Text Editors
When developing web sites using a simple text editor you should have a good understanding about the HTML tags. A simple text editors such as ‘Notepad’ or ‘Notepad++’ can be used for this purpose and you need to type the HTML tags in appropriate way and you need good knowledge of HTML tags for this purpose. The basic knowledge needed for this activity will be provided in stages. 
We can discuss about some simple text editors which can be used for this
purpose. We can obtain them free of charge.


1. Notepad           -   Free too distributed with windows operating system By
                                    Microsoft Institute from their first windows operating system in 1985.
2. GEdit                -   Tool developed to use with Unicode. (See figure 5.1)
3. TextEdit            -    Free tool distributed with Macintosh Operating System.
4. TED Notepad   -   Text editors which developed from 2001 by Joraj Similovic can be 
                                    used with  windows operating system.

Interface of GEdit text editor