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HTML code is the language that HTML documents for the World Wide Web are written in. HTML Editors are programs that help you add HTML code with a single click. They relieve you of having to type in every single bit of the HTML code yourself, or having to memorize every tag. The dedicated HTML editors offer intuitive features including varying degrees of WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) display.

A great place to find a free WYSIWYG Web authoring tool is right on your hard drive. You downloaded it along with your browser if you happen to be using Navigator 3 Gold, Communicator 4 or Internet Explorer 4. Although these editors don't have as many features as their more expensive WYSIWYG cousins, they definitely can get you started fast, and you can add the finishing touches with your text or HTML editor.

There are many full-featured free or inexpensive HTML editors available at the shareware sites listed on our home page. Below are a few of our favorite editors.

• A great HTML Shareware editor for Mac is PageSpinner.

• A free Careware HTML editor for Windows with lots of features is Arachnophilia.

• A shareware HTML editor for Windows is the Coffee Cup Editor. It has an image mapper, lots of scripts and an image browser that provides support for the latest HTML features. It costs $40 to register.

• Vicki Jean Beauchamp wrote to tell us that she really likes an absolutely free editor for Windows 95 called HTML Notes.

When you have finished your pages, you should view them in several HTML browsers to make sure they look the way you want them to, because each browser interprets HTML in its own unique way. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Versions 3 and 4 of both browsers are in wide use.

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