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Tests by @Macarlo
IWA Member
Screenshots by NamoCapture
 TESTS ON
Windows NT 4.0 + Service Pack 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 + Netscape 4.72 (Previewers)
Special Beta Tester Pentium 200 PC (Asus TX97 Smart)
128MB EDO RAM (4 X 32)
HDD Western Digital 10.2MB Ultra DMA

HERE IS THE WINNERS!
Rated Five Butterflies - Namo Web Editor 3.06
Rated Four Butterflies - HotDog Professional 5.5
Rated Three Butterflies - Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.01
Rated Two Butterflies - Adobe PageMill 3.0

  Hi All.
This month I received several e-mails from Windows users asking me about what is, in my opinion, the best professional editor for manage projects (entire web sites) on NT environment. This Sunday April 23 I decided make a comparative test in order to attend these users and here is the winner: Namo Web Editor. I made the test creating project from the zero and managing it (checking links, creating new pages and editing others). For all tests I used my principal web site (above 4,000,000 html pages + above 3,000,000 images).

If you are a professional webmaster you know the several problems encountered day by day managing large web sites. Several professional web sites have no more of four hundred pages; the greater number of these web sites have no more of fifty pages; web sites such @Macarlo, Inc. Official are the minority and I recognize that this present test was made in extreme severe conditions, because load a complete map of 7,000,000 files is not simple, inclusively for professional web editors. Between all tools for sophisticated development in the communications area I verified that just web editors have experienced the most dramatical evolution in the last years. Some years ago created a web page was a mystery: only programmers could develop one, using a simple text editor. Today anyone can create web pages an all the people says: "Hi, I'm webmaster!". Yeah, using the modern web editors anyone can will be webmaster, because the webmaster is just the web editor, not his operator...These advanced web editors sucks excessive CPU resources and sucks also all RAM you have. If your machine is a 486, sorry but forget these tools. I decided make this comparative test on my Special Beta Tester PC because it is the medium in the actual universe of PCs and Macs. Today people is using motherboards with 700Mhz processors and a minimum of 256MD of RAM 100ns and running operating systems and applications on super-fast HDDs with 20GB of storage capacity, including in the Third World. But 90 per cent of computers users in this paranoid digitalized universe is using the old and not special cooled Pentium 200 with old fashioned socket.

Its not secret for anyone that I'm an obsolete old man, using obsolete machines and living in the fucked (sorry...) Third World. I'm not normal, because I'm OS/2 user and I'm just using Boxer on Warp 4.5 in order to make my web sites. But I use also advanced web editors, in order to make templates and for projects administration. During some months I used everyday StarOffice because this fine release works on all platforms except Mac. But the problem is that StarOffice have not a Site Manager and his code generator is buggy. Unfortunately Sun Microsystems don't solved these problems yet and I suspect that Scott McNealy is thinking in insert Netscape in StarOffice, replacing StarBrowser. This is not the most desired solution, because Composer is buggy and can't works with some scripts (Composer can't accept requests for remote dlls). I simply decided discard StarOffice after the Sun's decision about OS/2 (this pretty suite is discontinued for Warp because IBM is interested in promote Lotus SmartSuite). I related these facts here in order to explain the reasons of my StarOffice replacement.

During this comparative test I adopted the parameters below for judgement:

1) The time consumed for project creation;

2) The time consumed for web site checking;

3) The time consumed for load and open a project;

4) The CPU resources requested in these operations;

5) The RAM sucked;

6) The virtual memory used;

7) The facility of the use: is the web editor intuitive?

8) The quickness of all edition operations, including update above 30 pages at the same time using copy & past in several clipboards.

The Tests

In a rapid explanation I can said that Namo consumed on this Beta Tester PC only four minutes for the test project creation, 40 seconds for load it with all files available, around 10 per cent of CPU usage and low RAM requests. See the photo at the head of this page. Is the most easy, efficient and powerful web editor currently available in all the world and his price is the most attractive. Namo have the most perfect design mode (WYSIWYG) and works in perfect integration with Microsoft Internet Explorer transferring all codes you need from a site to another! In Namo when you marks any point in design mode and changes the mode to Edit, the cursor will appears situated just in the relationed HTML code portion. To read more about Namo click the House above.

 HotDog Professional, the second in best performance in this test consumed on my Beta Tester Machine only five minutes for the test project creation, 80 seconds for load it with all files available, only 8 per cent of CPU usage and 20MB more of RAM requests in comparison with Namo. See the photo at the head of this page (Namo) and the photo above (HotDog) and check Physical Memory (K) Available. Note that HotDog is only of the web editors tested here that have not design mode (WYSIWYG) in order to save spare resources. But HotDog have the most perfect tutorial online, the most perfect code explanation built-in the code generator, integration with dozen of Super Toolz, including the fantastic Image Lab (image optimizator for web publishing). With HotDog you can check in few minutes entire web sites as the my and you can publish pages to a directory with a simple mouse click. Note also that HotDog is for professionals. To read more about HotDog, including the new and absolutely fantastic 6.0, click the green dog above.

Macromedia Dreamweaver, the third in best performance in this test consumed on my Beta Tester Machine 20 minutes for the test project creation (because creates a giant cache), 140 seconds for load it with all files available, only 7per cent of CPU usage and consumed 1.24MB RAM unless that HotDog 5.5. Dreamweaver (I used in this test version 2.01) is reputed by experts the most advanced and sophisticated web editor, because manages Flash features, inserting it directly in the pages that you are making. The problem is that Dreamweaver is one of most expensive web editors and is not totally intuitive: you need study it and read about his features. Dreamweaver is the most desired  web editor and also the most cracked software in all the world because his price. To read more about Dreamweaver click his logo, above.

PageMill, the forth in best performance in this test consumed on my Beta Tester Super PC 40 minutes for the test project creation (sucking 100% of my CPU with checking procedures during the web site map elaboration), five minutes for load it with all files available, only 7per cent of CPU usage and consumed RAM such Dreamweaver). PageMill is an excellent web editor, very intuitive and simple, but not recognizes the new generation of forms. If you are a beginner and the web site that you will made is not excessively big, PageMill is a good and economic option. You can purchase it from Beyond.com. To read more about PageMill click his logo (Saturn) above.

Allaire HomeSite 4.5, is the last in best performance in this test: consumed on my Beta Tester Super PC  all CPU resources, all RAM and simply can't creates the project that the others web editors created successfully. HomeSite is a very popular web editor and many webmasters considers it the best-in-show because creates clean and pure HTML code. Unfortunately HomeSite is optimized for Windows 96/98 environment and I verified that this web editor don't runs fine on NT platform. I'm registered user of version 4.0 (purchased it in Beyond.com), upgraded it from Allaire web site, was beta tester of this current version 4.5 but I can't use it in my work because I use not Windows 95 or Windows 98. Considering that the developers are serious I decided rated it with one butterfly...and not with a skull. To read more about HomeSite click his logo above.

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