Using PSPad
to Edit an HTML File
- PSPad is a good text
editor for writing HTML files because it uses coloring and highlighting to
make the HTML easier to read and write. The labs should have PSPad installed. You can install PSPad
on your home computer for free at http://www.pspad.com.
- Set your
computer to show file extensions, as follows.
1. Invoke Windows Explorer by selecting Start >> All Programs
>> Accessories >> Windows Explorer (or invoke My Computer or
My Documents).
2. From Windows Explorer, select Tools >> Folder Options >>
View tab. Uncheck the box for "Hide extensions for known file
types".
- Use Windows
Explorer to create a folder named IT130 in My Documents or on your flash
drive.
- To start PSPad at home, select Start >> PSPad Editor >> PSPad
Editor >> PSPad (or double-click on the PSPad shortcut).
To start PSPad in the labs,
select Start >> CTI Software >> Accessories >> PSPad.
- To create a new
file in PSPad, select File >> New File and
then select HTML and click the ok button. You will see the skeleton for an
HTML file. Edit the file so that it has the HTML code you want. You can
delete the HTML tags that you don't need (like
the meta tags in the skeleton file).
- To save the
file, select File >> Save As, name the file (without typing the
.html extension), and save it in the IT130 folder you created.
- In Windows
Explorer, double click on the HTML file icon. The browser should display
the web page.
- Another
nice feature of Pspad: Type ctrl-space and then
the first few letters of a tag name and then ok. This will
insert the opening and closing tags for the selected html element.
For the Macintosh, there are other free HTML
editors that run on Mac OS. Here are two: