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Whether you choose a WYSIWYG or a tag-based editor to create your HTML, you’ll be wise to spend some time exploring the various features offered by the current crop of HTML software. Depending on your needs, some of them may offer features and programs that may make you work more efficiently. If you don’t choose carefully, you might get stuck with a program that doesn’t do something you need— and this means more tedious, manual work for you.

Work-wise, creating and launching your Web site is just the beginning of a creative adventure. All sites should take their guests on an interesting journey, and the first visit should offer a reason to return, and on subsequent visits, the guest needs to experience a site that grows and evolves over time. Web sites are living, dynamic documents. For this reason, you’ll want a program that makes updating them easy.

WYSIWYG HTML editors make producing your initial site easy, but often come up short when it’s time to update. Whichever route you take, WYSIWYG or tag-based, you need to be able to make changes to your pages frequently. The following sections explore some of the features found in today’s HTML editors. To select the right features for your needs, consider what you’re planning to do. You won’t necessarily need all the features listed. If you want to create a few simple pages, for instance, you won’t need site maintenance features. But you won’t want to live without those features if you plan to create a huge, complex site with dozens, or even hundreds, of Web pages.

Some features, however, are absolutely essential. These include the capability to have multiple pages open for editing at the same time, the capability to do multiple file search-and-replace, tag cues to tell you what attributes are available to the tag you are editing, colored tags, and the capability to add custom tags so you don’t need to add or cut and paste sequences of tags you use frequently.