To design and create a Website by writing Webpage contents in HTML coding – that is the basic definition of Web authoring.
The Web technologies have evolved enormously since the heyday of HTML in the 90’s. Nowadays, Web authoring involve the use of latest Web technologies –
Embedding streaming media
to enable audio and video contents to reach the audience by using -
Flash (.swf), Quicktime movies (.mov), Windows Media (.wma, .wmv), Real Media (.rm, .ram),
MP3 files (.mp3), AVI files (.avi) etc.
Even so, it is still the good old HTML playing the vital part and the backbone of Web authoring.
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Tools & FAQ Archives.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
is the predominant markup language for web pages. It is the basic building-blocks of webpages.
Since 1991 The technology leading to
DHTML and
XHTML
and evolves to
HTML5.
DHTML (Dynamic HTML) is not a standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), it is regard as a combination of HTML 4.0, Style Sheets JavaScript and Java Applet.
XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and combines the strength of HTML 4 with the power of XML.
To write HTML, a basic text editor such as Windows’ Notepad will do the job but this is the hardest and
most time consuming way to hardcoding the HTML - tag by tag, line by line.
So here come HTML Editors
with advanced functionalities and tools primary aiming to help HTML coding at ease.
HTML Editors come in difference varieties ranging from basic editor to professional
Web Development Environment, in freeware,
open source
and high end commercial one costing hundreds of pounds.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Freeware
Microsoft's Web Development Environment - Web Platform includes: Visual Web Developer,
SQL Server Express, Silverlight Tools, IIS and ASP.NET Extensions.
MathML is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for
machine to machine communication. It provides a much needed foundation for
the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages like this -
XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information.
A markup language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document.
The XML specification defines a standard way to add markup to documents.
The XML Cover Pages
A comprehensive, online reference collection supporting the XML family of markup language standards, XML vocabularies, and related structured information standards covering SGML, XML, W3C XML Schema, Other XML Schema Languages, XSL, XSLT, XPath, XLink, XML Query, XHTML, DOM, XPointer, HyTime, RDF, Topic Maps, DSSSL, CSS, SPDL, SVG, CGM, ISO-HTML, etc.
Like HTML, a basic text editor will do the job of writing XML codes.
It is the time consuming and human error factors that urging the need of an XML Editor that making the task a lot easier.
