CreaText is an HTML text editor with some basic and advanced features.
CreaText has got many functions which make creating websites easier, e.g. Tag Coloring, easy access to the Mac browsers, the change of special characters into HTML entities in realtime, an Insert menu with rapid access to all usual HTML commands, an HTML color chooser, drag & drop, and the possibility to setup HTML parameters when creating a new document.
CreaText is built like a typical Mac application so you will quickly explore CreaText's dimensions. Most menus commands have Shortcuts for immediate access. The documentation is not complete but explains many of CreaText's handy features.
Many commercial web design applications offer you WYSIWYG, which is short for "What you see is what you Get". In fact, these applications can only show you a preview of what the webpage will look alike. Every web browser interprets pages in its own way. So the main purpose is not seeing immediate results but creating web pages like a DTP application. But most applications (and even the most expensive ones) fail at basic editing. They don't offer any comfortable features for inserting the custom code you want.
This is where CreaText comes into Play. Create your layouts with a WYSIWYG application and edit and optimize the pages with CreaText.
This is CreaText's toolbar.
This toolbar is displayed on the top of every document window.
The left side features buttons with often used functions.
Save - When it displays a red button, the document hasn't been saved since the last change. The green button (seen in the image above) shows that there was no change.
Recolor - CreaText doesn't have real time HTML coloring, so it can sometimes happen that your code is not fully colored. Hit this button to let CreaText recolor the HTML Tags.
