Best Program to write an html sales letter in ???

14 years ago

I write my stuff in Word. Then I copy and paste it all into notepad to get the funky Word formatting out. Then I put it into FrontPage or Kompozer to dress it up. Lots of people use Dreamweaver. There are lots of free Web editors out there. Do a search and you might find one you like.

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TheGraduate

14 years ago

Yes, I write mine in word too, and I also paste it to notepad, but the editors I have been trying are a pain in the rear end, they do not let you work with the test once you have paste it into the editor

I will go ahead and buy FrontPage, you are the second person to recommend it!

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Edit/add: Well, FrontPage is not available anymore, I think I will have to buy the Express or designer version of it

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Will Edwards

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheGraduate

Yes, I write mine in word too, and I also paste it to notepad, but the editors I have been trying are a pain in the rear end, they do not let you work with the test once you have paste it into the editor

I will go ahead and buy FrontPage, you are the second person to recommend it!

Thanks a lot

Edit/add: Well, FrontPage is not available anymore, I think I will have to buy the Express or designer version of it

Frontpage and it's successor Expressions Web are both very poor imho! They both suffer from the same problems - adding a ridiculous amount of unnecessry and unwelcome tags all over the place.

Will

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Loren Woirhaye

14 years ago

FrontPage? Ugh. It's very old and well, Microsoft isn't too
interested in standards compliant HTML. I don't think it's even
for sale anymore.

Generally to work well with images you need to be using a
graphics editor alongside your HTML editor. XsitePro handles
graphics pretty well within the software. You just add your
graphics to the website you're working on and it handles the
previewing and the publishing. It has it's warts but it's full
featured and reasonably intuitive.

A lot of salesletters you may admire are coded with CSS,
not straight HTML.

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TheGraduate

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Loren Woirhaye

FrontPage? Ugh. It's very old and well, Microsoft isn't too
interested in standards compliant HTML. I don't think it's even
for sale anymore.

Generally to work well with images you need to be using a
graphics editor alongside your HTML editor. XsitePro handles
graphics pretty well within the software. You just add your
graphics to the website you're working on and it handles the
previewing and the publishing. It has it's warts but it's full
featured and reasonably intuitive.

A lot of salesletters you may admire are coded with CSS,
not straight HTML.

I checked XsitePro a couple of times before, but I get the idea that you have to host the software somewhere?...

...am I right or can you just run the software on your computer?

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Loren Woirhaye

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheGraduate

I checked XsitePro a couple of times before, but I get the idea that you have to host the software somewhere?...

...am I right or can you just run the software on your computer?

It's a desktop software. The license covers 2 computers so you can
install it on your laptop too. It has integrated FTP.
XSitePro

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Rezbi

14 years ago

I use NVU and it does the job.

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Lee Wilson

14 years ago

I've tried so many I've lost count. This is the one I've stuck with for the last three years, loads of options, ultra reliable, quite configurable but no wsiwyg so as long as you don't mind playing with the html.

You can setup your own libraries and organise into folders so you could have plenty of premade tags ready to go, still requires some messing about though. Either way, it slaughters frontpage IMO.

WeBuilder - HTML editor, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, SSI, WML, Perl editor

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TheGraduate

14 years ago

Originally Posted by L Wilson

I've tried so many I've lost count. This is the one I've stuck with for the last three years, loads of options, ultra reliable, quite configurable but no wsiwyg so as long as you don't mind playing with the html.

You can setup your own libraries and organise into folders so you could have plenty of premade tags ready to go, still requires some messing about though. Either way, it slaughters frontpage IMO.

WeBuilder - HTML editor, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, SSI, WML, Perl editor

Sound like a nice tool, but I hate to play around with code. My editing is limited to what a visual editor allows me to do

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Lee Wilson 14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheGraduate

Sound like a nice tool, but I hate to play around with code. My editing is limited to what a visual editor allows me to do

If you don't mind the mess created by wysiwyg editors, maybe take a look at webplus.

Website design software – WebPlus X4 from Serif

You can try an older version for free to get a feel for it.

WebPlus: FREE Website Publishing software download
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- Ross Bowring 14 years ago
  
  NVU for me.
  
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Johnny12345

14 years ago

I use Word for writing sales letters and Wordpad for converting them to HTML. That's right, I said Wordpad.

As far as I'm concerned, it's more difficult to learn to use a web editor program than it is to manually write HTML.

HTML is not difficult. Get a beginner's book and learn the basics. Then you can format your letter and simply "cut and paste" it into a template.

Regards,

Johnny

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revenue27

14 years ago

Well, the best program to use is Dreamweaver but costly, for free alternative is NVU, xsitepro never try before.

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Ken Strong 14 years ago

I second Dreamweaver if you want to spend the money, although it's probably overkill for most of what we're talking about here.

I've been using Kompozer lately, and for a free program it works pretty well.
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dtendrich

14 years ago

NVU here too.

Nvu Web Authoring Software

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Matt James 14 years ago

I've used XSitePro ever since it was released.

Such a time saver for manipulating and inserting images. Plus, you just click a button to publish to your website. Easy peasy.
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