WYSIWYG Editors And You

 Many people are involved in the business of putting together websites and various other projects that require the ability to figure out the language you’re translating from code to webpage.  Many individuals aren’t particularly familiar with the language of code, and this in turn makes it more difficult to create sites.  However, for years, there has been an alternative to having to learn tedious codes:  WYSIWYG editors.  The acronym stands for What You See Is What You Get, named from a popular 1970s catchphrase.  These editors allow users to be able to see what the finished product is shaping up to be, even as they are putting the touches on their creation.  The editing you’re doing will look very similar to what you’ll see at the end, because the absence of manual coding helps you just go through at an easier level and put what you want into your site and make the code look the way you want it.

 There are several different WYSIWYG editors.  One of these is known as Dreamweaver.  This editor has features such as clearing up any kind of missing language, such as tags.  If you wish to use indents in your code, you can tell Dreamweaver to do this, as well.  With this product, a developer can decide how their site will be coded.  Also, there is Microsoft’s FrontPage, which has been around for quite a while, and has a level of popularity, despite some critiques about its level of functionality.  Adobe Contribute is another editor that allows you to edit, design, and update not only websites – but blogs, as well.  Blogging is one of the hottest activities online today, and a tool such as this can be quite useful.  You may also consider Amaya, a program which acts as a combination browser/editor, allowing you to edit pages at the same time you browse the web.  Amaya is open-source, and is available for Mac and Linux systems as well as Windows users.

 

There are both good and bad things about using WYSIWYG editors.  The most obvious benefit is the simple ease of many of these programs.  It is certainly a great thing to not have to learn code, although it never hurts to have extra knowledge.  You can take joy and pleasure in the thought that you could get a site off the ground and running in a few days, or only a few hours.  On the other hand, there can be pitfalls involved in using these editors.  One of these issues is that there can be issues with the integration of printers to your editor of choice.  Printers in some cases may act strangely, spewing pages or garbled text if forced to turn off due to error.  In addition, translating WYSIWYG into HTML might not always go smoothly – not to mention issues with placing hand-coded pages into these editors.

 

 In the long run, there are plentiful reasons why WYSIWYG editors are a popular method of webpage development.

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