The two WYSIWYG applications - Home Page Wizard and Live Markup - were nice to work with because we were able to receive immediate feedback for our work. Home Page Wizard also show a "Tip of the Day" dialog box upon start-up which is handy for users unfamiliar with the application and HTML features. Both Live Markup and Home Page Wizard have Drag-and-Drop Features, but the Live Markup method is very weak when compared with that of Home Page Wizard.
Even though the interface for HP Wizard was the most pleasant to work with the functionality left much to be desired for our desired audience as will be shown a little later. On the other hand, Live Markup proved to be very effective for our desired audience. Once we were able to get over some of the quirks of the application we found it to be a useful tool.
The other two HTML editors that we tested were the Aardvark Pro and HotDog Standard; both are text-based editors. Text based editors are not a problem as long as a suitable viewer can be used to view your pages. Aardvark Pro comes with a built in preview button so that a preview of your page can be seen. HotDog Standard, however, must be linked to a browser, such as Netscape or Mosaic, so that a page can be viewed. It did take a little time to get used to these applications, but, after a some orientation, few problems were found.
Aardvark Pro makes creation of home pages, links, in-line graphics, tables, and forms relatively easy by using the different wizards that are built in to the application. HotDog Standard makes the coding of specific elements easy by the Drag-and-Drop function used to place tags in to the document. For example, if you are building a table you simply call up the desired list of tags and drag the tags from the window of table tags to your document.