RE: What is Visual Basic

Hi!

For an answer to the "visual basic" question, or definition of just about
any term or acronym associated with computers and information technology,
surf over to http://www.whatis.com.

I would cut and paste the answer here but that would be use without
permission and besides, I think you will find the site very useful and
worthy of bookmarking.

Now, for the HTML editors question....

Surf over to PC World at
http://www.pcworld.com/fileworld/cat_index_sub/frameset/0,1460,internet+html
_editors,00.html.

There you will find a couple of dozen editors and tools for download. Be
aware that shareware is not freeware. If you're gonna use it, you're
supposed to pay for it after the trial period.

Now as to cost and WYSIWYG editors....

Microsoft will all but give away their products to bona fide educational
institutions and I am sure that many, if not most, other software companies
have similar programs. Don't let cost be a dissuading factor until you have
investigated such programs.

Alan S. Atwood

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-software(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-software(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Suzanne Ankerbrand
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 3:15 PM
> To: hwg-software(at)hwg.org
> Subject: What is Visual Basic
>
>
> Hi-
> After my question last week regarding "Software recommendation for
> beginners" (I was looking for html editor suggestions for high school
> students.)  I am not going to recommend any wysiwig editor at this time.
> Neither am I going to recommend Homesite or any equivalent text-based
> editor mainly for budget reasons (they need about 20-30 copies of the
> program) and because they really do not need anything like that at this
> time. They'll be creating simple web pages.
>
> However, to make the html somewhat  easier for them I started
> searching for
> freeware/shareware html editors to recommend. I am looking for something
> that can handle larger files than notepad/simple text, can copy/paste, can
> undo/redo, can open multiple files. It would also be nice if the html tags
> could be color coded. I came across one program (MatHTML,
> http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~mar6417/mathtml/index.html) that says it is a
> Visual Basic Windows 95/NT application. I am a Mac person, can someone
> explain what Visual Basic is?
>
> Also, if anyone has any freeware/shareware html editor
> suggestions that has
> some of the features above, that's great too. Am looking for Mac
> as well as
> PC.
>
> Thanks,
> Suzanne
>
>

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