Mac WYSIWYG HTML Editor Primer Tutorial

Mac WYSIWYG HTML Editor Primer Tutorial

It’s common to be asked whether you can run a blog not knowing any HTML. For us, the answer to this is, yes, it is possible, but life is much easier if you learn some HTML.

Supposing you work on a MacBook Pro, and even before considering the use of a local web server like MAMP for Apache/PHP/MySql for a Mac OS X environment, you want to output HTML but not see any of the goings on regarding the HTML?

Well, you could use Document Processing suites like Microsoft Office or OpenOffice or LibreOffice, but we did some research via this Mac specific search link and arrived at a great product called SeaMonkey, written by those same geniuses as gave us the FireFox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation. You’ll see other choices of ways to go with that web search, as well.

Okay, so we want to show you some SeaMonkey screenshots of …

• the install process
  
• the opening of an existant web page … the SeaMonkey home page
  
• the amendment of that page in a WYSIWYG non-HTML SeaMonkey editor window
  
• the Save As window
  
• the view of that page in HTML source and a further amendment in that view, with a Save
  
• the view of that saved work in a different web browser window
  
• the creation of new HTML file from scratch in a WYSIWYG SeaMonkey window and shown below …
  
  … which you can compare to a WordPress HTML editing window way to achieve the same thing below …

  The rain
  in Spain
  falls mainly
  on the plain.

• the ability to code for HTML table elements in a WYSIWYG editor window
  
• the ability to manage image content (linked perhaps) via the “Image” functionality
  
• the ability to upload your contents via the “Publish” functionality
  

… or view the whole slideshow.

Please note SeaMonkey’s “Link” functionality to create HTML a tags and there is a “Spell” checker as well.

Please note, also, that SeaMonkey can be downloaded to work for Windows or Linux operating systems, as well.

To create blog post content, you can do well with this functionality and not have to touch much HTML except perhaps the copy and paste of HTML produced by SeaMonkey!

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