Getting started Creating your first HTML document, adding HTML tags and attributes, and formatting your code. Introduction About BBEdit, about me, your web project choices, and conventions used in this material. (Partial disclosure: I may own a bit of stock in Apple, Inc.) If you don’t have an Apple computer, please go buy one right this minute.

In case you are wondering, BBEdit runs on Apple computers under OS X versions 10.9.5 and later. Here, therefore, is my opinionated view on how to use BBEdit to develop and maintain static websites. I concur.Īfter years of using BBEdit for every imaginable text-editing chore, including the creation and maintenance of dozens of websites, I discovered that there was no how-to guide on using BBEdit for this, its intended purpose. But if you have one or more text files, and you need to manage them as text using Mac OS X (AKA macOS), BBEdit is the tool for you.Īccording to, BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Unlike Pages or Word or TextEdit or many other examples of word-processing software, BBEdit does not care much about WYSIWYG document creation. The plain applies to the formatting of the text, not to the features of BBEdit, which are anything but. BBEdit is a plain text editor from the good folks at Bare Bones Software.

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