An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although
the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor
, specialised HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality.
For example, many HTML editors work not only with HTML, but also with
related technologies such as CSS, XML and JavaScript or ECMAScript.
In some cases they also manage communication with remote web servers
via FTP and WebDAV, and version management systems such as CVS or Subversion.

Do You Want to Try It?

If you are running Windows, start Notepad.

If you are on a Mac start SimpleText.

In OSX start TextEdit and change the following preferences:
Select (in the preferences window) “Plain text” instead of “Rich text” and
then select “Ignore rich text commands in HTML files”.
This is very important because if you don’t do this HTML codes probably won’t work.

Type in the following text:

This is my first homepage. This text is bold

Save the file as “mypage.htm”.