Santa Clause Did Not Come to Felix Salmon This Year
So Felix Salmon needs a visit from the html markup wysiwyg fairy:
felixsalmon.com: — Merry Christmas Bleg: Merry Christmas to you. As for me, all I want for Christmas is...
...a very simple WYSIWYG HTML editor. Why can't I find one?
I spend most of my days writing blog entries.... If I really wanted to, I could hand-code all this stuff in a text editor – well, all of it except the tables, anyway, where a WYSIWYG editor is invaluable. But I'm not the kind of geek who loves to look at code: I'm much happier looking at something which more or less resembles what it is I'm trying to write. Plus hand-coding hyperlinks is always a bore, and I'm perfectly happy to leave it to my HTML editor to remember what all my special characters are in HTML.
Then, once it's written, I want to be able to copy and paste the raw HTML into a web interface in order to publish it. How hard can that be?
I have tried out a few HTML editors. Some, like MarsEdit, are ridiculously bare-bones: they're basically text editors with blog-publishing features. Others are designed for people putting together complicated websites, and are great at creating stylesheets and beautiful pages and whatnot, but are really bad at generating ultrasimple HTML. Others, like KompoZer and GoodPage, also fall short of what I want. SeaMonkey is not even close.... I use ecto quite a lot, and I like it.... But... you can't create a table in it, and it has an incredibly annoying habit of slapping an http:// onto the beginning of anything you put in a hyperlink, even if you don't want one there.
Now there is a program which does everything I want: it's called Dreamweaver, it costs $400, and it also does a gazillion things I don't want. But is there some other app I can use without going down the ridiculously-overspecced Dreamweaver road?
I say that MarsEdit http://marsedit.com/ in Markdown mode http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ hits the sweet spot here...
And surely Conde Nast has a site license for Dreamweaver?
