HTMLPad 2011 HTML Editor

This HTML editor is hands down the best I've ever tried and I've tried a hundred of them.

It's so good, I've canned all my other editors and I use it exclusively to manage my 1200 page website.

I can set up the editor window just the way I want. Big open working space with no line numbers.
(Just turned them off )
Nothing makes code harder to read than a bunch of numbers down the side.

And I could display the code in the editor window in a size that fits my tired old eyes.

You know those free editors where the FTP function doesn't work. This one is flawless. I can finish 10 pages or 50 pages and click a button and all the changes go to my website.

Threw away my commercial FTP tool when I uploaded the first batch.


HTMLPad 2011


One of the features that sold me was its powerful search and replace function for changing multiple pages with one click.

A lot of editors have this, but they're so slow , you can go and eat supper if you're changing a lot of web pages in one session.

I've changed 500 pages with one click and didn't have time to get my cigarette lit before it was finished. It's sizzling fast. And it's accurate. See My Complaints below

My website, just one of them is 1200 pages. I do a lot of redesigns and manipulate a lot of ads. Could you imagine changing an ad on 1200 pages manually going through every page.

I've used free editors and editors that I built myself for years. I didn't realize what a mess my website was in until I started using this editor.

I found and fixed more errors using this tool than 'Jake has Beans'.

One click access to Tidy and the W3c Validator means you never upload another web page that contains errors.

You can even turn on highlighting features that will notify you when you typed an error.

Are you a bad speller? Turn on Spell Checking.

HTMLPad has everything that people look for. Color picker, spell checker, code validation, ftp functionality, code libraries in HTML XHTML, PHP, CSS and more.

Note: About the code libraries. With a lot of editors you're stuck with what's in the library. With HTMLPad 2011, you can not only edit their code snippets, but you can add your own.

This editor is everything a serious webmaster needs and better than that it's easy to learn, so it's perfect for beginners.

Can You Test Forms on your PC with your HTML Editor?

HTMLPad 2011 has a feature called Preview Mapping. Instantly set it up with a localhost server and you can build and test HTML forms, Perl and PHP scripts right on your PC. You can even build MySQL databases on your PC and upload them to your website, after you work out the bugs.

You can't do that with any of Adobe's or Microsoft's overpriced junk. You can't do it with any of the free sitebuilders we promote. You can't do it with Coffee Cup and you can't do it with Eversoft's FirstPage.

You can only do it with HTMLPad 2011. See my tutorial on Setting up HTMLPad with a localhost server.

Why would you want to do that? Let's just say, you'll find out down the road when you try your hand at building your own forms like guestbooks, polls and contact forms.

If you are going to buy an HTML editor, Buy the RIGHT ONE!!

HTMLPad 2011 has retired my old outdated software.

I highly recommend it for beginners and experienced webmasters.

My Complaints

I guess there aren't any perfect HTML editors out there.

Since I've been using HTMLPad I've found bugs in the find in files and replace in files functions.

There are times when it won't find a block of code in a search of a folder even when the search originates from a source page.

Other times it will find and replace 10 lines of code in 400 files. Just isn't consistent.

To resolve that problem I have to either resort to using my old homemade software or use a second commercial editor, Coffee Cup HTML editor.

There are also problems with the Coffee Cup editor. The Help files are terrible which makes projects difficult to set up. The FTP is funky at best. You have to replace some of the code snips in the libraries because they're not W3C compliant and I haven't found a way to get it to link up with the IndigoAMPP server.

Even with those problems I still recommend both editors. They're the BEST of those I've tried. And I've tried MANY!

Makes me wish I'd perfected my old home made editor. It works better than any commercial software I've tried. Software developers today just don't have it.

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