Web Editors are specialized software developed to help in creating web-pages. They are not compulsory to write web-pages, but they speed up you development process.

You can very easily create a web-page in any text-editor, but every time you save the file, you have to mention the extension of the file yourself. Whereas if you were using some editor, all you need to do is give the file a name and it would save the file with proper extension based on what type of file you chose when you opted for new from the file menu of the editor.


Then if you are writing in a simple text-editor, you have to remember the syntax, spellings and even the elements/codes or whatever you are writing. Whereas in a specialized editor, while writing html/xhtml, all you need to do is write the starting angular bracket (the less than sign) “<” and it would give you the list of all the elements. So instead of remembering, you can select from the list.


Also if while writing, there is some error or spelling mistake, the editor would at the minimum highlight the code, some editors might also give you suggestion what could have been written actually.


So do use a special editor while writing a web-page. Still I won’t suggest getting totally dependant on the editors as sometimes you may need to write/edit some code and you may not have an editor available.


I personally use Adobe’s Dreamweaver or Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Though for HTMLXHTML, I prefer Dreamweaver, while working in PHP, again Dreamweaver and for .NET definitely Visual Studio .


For most part of web development examples on this site, I would be suing Dreamweaver CS5. You need not to worry though what editor you should be using. Any editor you feel comfortable with, go for it.