Global Search and Replace

[Tim Tripp]

Sheryl Dwinell wrote:
> 
> >Aw, why focus on the negative? Let's hear what *works*. I'd like to be able
> >to recommend something to my poor benighted Windows colleagues! <duck>
> 
> Ha ha, very funny. :)  Well, Homesite is a wonderful HTML editor (text, not
> WYSIWIG) that allows global find & replace in web pages. I love it! You
> have the option of making backups of the files that you change in case you
> screw up. You can also limit to specified directories & subdirectories.  It
> works very quickly, and I've never had a problem with 'extraneous' markup
> getting inserted. I think this is because it's a text editor, rather than a
> WYSIWIG editor. I've also used FrontPage to do global changes to text on
> pages and to fix links. But, Homesite allows you change bits and pieces of
> HTML markup, which FrontPage doesn't.

I have to second Sheryl's recommendation of Homesite.  I'd only heard
about it after reading the documentation from O'Reilly & Associates on
their WebBoard web based conferencing software
<http://webboard.ora.com/>, which I had set up on our intranet
recently.  WebBoard uses a number of unique "WebBoard Tags" in it's html
pages, and they recommended Homesite as it doesn't change these
non-standard tags.  In fact, it doesn't seem to add any extraneous
coding either.  I downloaded the limited demo version to do some
modification on the WebBoard pages, and I loved it so much that I forked
out the $90.00 this week to register it.  It's the best text based
editor I've come across (for either Windows or Macintosh). You can check
it out at <http://www.allaire.com/products/>.

As for WYSIWIG editors, I'm still a big fan of Adobe Pagemill
<http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemill/main.html>.  I started using
the Mac version when it came out, and was thrilled when they released
the Windows version this year.  As far as WYSIWIG editors go, it has the
lowest extraneous tag insertion quotient that I've seen, and I love it
for page design.

Tim

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