HTML Editors Probably the most popular method is to use an HTML editor. When you visit any of the following links, take a look at their source code. HTML-Kit is a free and easy to use Windows program designed to help HTML authors to edit, format, validate, preview and publish web pages.
Beginners can benefit from letting it point out errors and suggest improvements to the code.
Experts can save time spent on common tasks using the customizable and extendible editor while maintaining full control over the code. Stroud's Consummate Internet Apps List offers several shareware HTML editors that you can download and try to see if you like them. Stroud's reviews all of the programs and lists their features. HTML Preprocessors HTML preprocessors scan an input file for commands that instruct them to do such things as include the contents of another file at this point, or substitute all occurences of some specially-marked abbreviation with a longer text, etc. It abbreviates commonly-used markup such as links, lists, paragraphs, etc, so that the text is much less cluttered.