Mark's WebWerx Page

WebWerx is my favorite HTML editor. The first time I encountered it I was instantly attracted to its user interface and as well as its simplicity, but not by its lack of user configurability, a characteristic due to WebWerx' origin as an in-house development tool. But this has changed.

At first glance you'll notice the beautiful buttons. There's no suprise here, as the author of WebWerx, Kim Jensen, is a graphics wiz. Check out LiteWerx's cool art at http://www.litewerx.dk. But you could also choose to have the old WebWerx interface, a very important point as I'll emphasize later. When you start coding, you'll notice the awesome on-the-fly multi-color syntax highlighting, which is a feature hard to find in any editor, commercial or otherwise. When you go to save your document, or documents now with the MDI (Multi-Document-Interface), you'll notice a very organized menu of tags sorted by function, and you'll notice the numerous shortcut keys to almost all these tags (almost, because there's are only twenty-six letters in the alphabet).

Delving a little deeper, you'll notice the most important difference between version 2.2 of WebWerx and earlier versions: customization. Originally an in-house development tool, there was no need to make WebWerx customizable. But as the development of WebWerx went along, user input shaped it, a la HomeSite, into what it is today: a nearly fully-customizable HTML editor. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the most complex HTML editor, but this is why I was drawn to it in the first place, and it is very fast if you know all the shortcut keys and tags. But getting back to the subject, WebWerx includes the ability to:

• select up to five-user defined templates
• select and launch an ftp program from within WebWerx with one press of a button
• select and launch [to preview a document] a browser also from within WebWerx with one press of a button
• select an HTML help file
• word wrap long lines (at last!), but it is an option
• import and export WebWerx configuration

New and old features include:

• HEX slash DEC converter
• color helper
• image wizard from a menu or a button on the toolbar
• table wizard from the menu or a button on the toolbar
• no file size limits
• up to 20 custom tags and macros
• search and replace
• unlimited undo and redo
• install and uninstall

Unfortunately, WebWerx isn't perfect. There isn't much extensive testing done on Windows 95, meaning there are problems running it on other platforms besides Windows NT. Actually, there isn't extensive testing, period, so be ready for a few bugs. It's no longer the simple HTML editor in used to be, but don't expect the large set of features you'll find in more popular, and clunkier, editors such as Hot Dog Pro or HomeSite; but this is one of its strengths. It has all the features I need, well, except spell checking, which is to be implented soon (as is tag balancing, aka validation) and better project support, meaning a built-in Windows Explorer-type window, a la Lorenz Graf's HTMLTool or SiteAid.

Tip: Put WebWerx in your sendto menu or use it as the source viewer for your browser.

Screen shots:

• The new WebWerx look - tag highlighting and the new buttons (54.1 KB)
• Customizability options (7.8 KB)

Downloads:

• Most recent version from the LiteWerx software page
• 2.0 beta 2 version available here (so you know what I mean)

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