What is an 'editor'

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"Yes, make make your instructions EASIER! I don't know what an 'editor' is except maybe the guy who works at the newspaper... all the help sites say the same thing open your favorite editor ....."

OK, here goes.

In the context of 'cut and paste' an editor is the tool/software that you use to edit your web page(s). One of the reasons that 'cut and paste' is often hard to understand is that different page editors use different methods to add stuff to your web pages.

Some people use an online page editor (very common with 'easy editors' and *free* home page). Geocities Geobuilder is one example. Some people prefer to edit their pages offline, i.e. not connected to their site (or even not connected to the Internet), and then send the edited pages to their web space.

Some editors allow you to see the html code, some - Trellix as an example - never let you see the html code, but just 'publish it' for you. Editors that do not allow you to see your html code are supposed to be simple to use - but often it is near impossible to actually do what you want to, exactly how you want it.

Editors come in two flavours - WYSIWYG (what you see is what you might get) where you can drag and drop elements of your page; and text editors (not word processors) which provide complete access to every bit of the html code. My preference - a plain text editor. And one of the best is 1stPage2000 - a free download from Evrsoft - www.evrsoft.com.