[Warren]

I'm a new member wanting to say Hi ! and have to agree that HotMetal Pro v6 (HMP) was great for getting right in among the HTML coding. I was asked by my company if I could write a help file in HTML to be integrated into a computer based system. I bought a book on HTML 4 by Elizabeth de Castro on Saturday morning and, after a speed read over the weekend, started the job on Monday morning using HMP v3. I've still got the stress scars from that job !! HMP v3 was pretty awful, but I really got to learn how to use and manipulate HTML. I also found no problems integrating javascript (some of which I specially modified) into HMP v6. Unlike Dreamweaver and some other similar wysiwyg packages, HMP doesn't add additional HTML coding into your files, "it does exactly what it says on the tin" as the saying goes (well most of the time !). However, having now used HMP v4, v5 and v6, on other jobs, I would only recommend HMP v6 to anyone new to the game, as most of the initial bugs have been refined out of it, and also for the ease of learning how to use it. I speak from experience, as the IT people who installed the software and maintained my company's computer systems, never had any instruction manuals available. Now, I am also in the seemingly growing queue of web designers trying to find a copy. I know this thread has been going on for a long time now, but if anyone can help me get a copy of HMP v6, I would really appreciate it.