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A while back ago, I wrote about some tools you should get to help you maintain your website. One piece of software that’s really helpful is something called a text editor. A text editor is a program that allows you to type documents in plain text…without any formatting or special characters. If you want to be able to open up an individual HTML page and look at the code underneath, you’ll need a text editor in order to see it properly. Text editors are also important for preventing garbled text in your web pages and emails when you’re cutting and pasting text out of Microsoft Word

PCs come with a free text editor called Notepad. You’ll usually find it under “Accessories”. Unfortunately Macs didn’t have a free Notepad equivalent installed so Mac users needed to buy a text editor called BBEdit, which is about $125.

BBEdit is a great little text editor and I’ve used it for years to help me edit code for my website, write my email newsletters, to clean up text cut out of Word…heck I’ve even used it to make up a grocery list. But if you’re a Mac user and your budget is a little tight, you can try out a free text editor called Smultron (nope…I’m not sure how to pronounce it).

Smultron

I’ve been testing it for a bit and it seems to work very much like BBEdit…and you can’t beat the price (free!). Check it out and download your own copy here.