What is Web Authoring?
Web authoring may sound like the art of creating written content to the web, but while writing for the web is a part of it, web authoring is a slightly more complex process that includes the entire process of designing a web page.  There are many tools available to aid a web designer in this process from Microsoft's Front Page to Nvu to Dreamweaver.   Of course, the purist web author can still write all the code in HTML and other scripting languages if he so chooses.  The WYSIWYG editors designed for the process make it easier and give the user an idea of what the page will look like beforehand.