FoxCPM
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You can edit HTML files with pretty much any text editor such as notepad on PC machines.
Another more advanced editor is Ultra Edit. You can connect it directly with your FTP and edit code directly on your server. There is a trial version that might work for a month..
To create a HTML file is a little different process. First of all HTML is still most friendly SEO way of building websites, but nowadays it's little old-fashioned and the final outlook of your website will not be as decent as PHP for example and etc.
For example:
www.FoxSweeping.com is html based site. It is made horribly code wise. Although it appears on the first place of google with key words: power sweeping in Florida which is all I need at this point
..www.FoxRoofCleaning.com has similar style to the one above, but it is modified with PHP coding. You can easily see the difference.
Basically the difference between HTML and PHP is that HTML puts all the coding in one file. PHP separates the page in different segments: header, body, footer and other elements and controls them independently through configue.php file. This is also called: static (html) vs dynamic (php) websites.
To be able to create decent HTML file you need not just the coding, but also the design and style of your pages. This is done by so called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This part of the deal is not as easy as the rest. Some web designers even specialize on that part only. You also need the images such as: background images, pictures, animations, flash and etc.
A relatively user friendly html maker is DreamWeaver, product of Adobe.
It can make/edit pages, but it also can mess them up pretty bad if the page is more complicated and has more dedicated code. So I suggest that kind of software only on basic html/php pages. This is actually all we need in our industry
..The professional web designers work only with code editors, no user friendly web creating softwares
..I hope this info helps a little.
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