I’ve been doing web design work since 1995, and one of the things I like best about it is how much it changes fairly regularly. When I started, writing HTML required that I know vi and be able to edit the files directly on the Unix server. Then I started storing files on my local hard drive, editing there in a text editor (Homesite was my poison), and then uploading them to my web server.

I’ve been building web pages for over 15 years now, and one thing I know is that the web is not stable. Things happen that cause problems and the more you can do to protect yourself and your work the better. So an exchange I had on a forum I read was very interesting. I asked the question “what offline blog editor do you use?” And this prompted several replies. At first I was pleased, as I was hoping to get suggestions for offline editors.

This is a “podcast” or audio recording where I’m trying out doing an audio recording of my thoughts. What I notice is that when I was staring at the computer it was very hard to talk, as I kept getting distracted by the machine. Some things I talk about: idea for an article on Webmaster tools and Google analytics working on editor reviews and my plan to create a video of my favorite web editors thoughts about a new(-ish) category of web editor—the WYSIWYG editor so people don’t need to know HTML at all should I create a separate evaluation of these editors?