Best wysiwug html editor?????

[d101]

Originally Posted by Fox30

Like any Adobe program, Dreamweaver is a pain to learn. But, once learned, it is the most powerful web building program out there.

hmm.

i used golive in the late 90ties,
then dreamweaver to its limits ...
and eventually went to bbedit and "10 finger hand writing" clean html ...

:-)

... finally I ended up writing a system to have design flexibility and seo compliance ... which i could not find anywhere ...

... so i am not so sure about "most powerful web building" ...
although i usually love Adobes products ...

[warmlikecoffee]

Dreamweaver is the industry standard, if you're going to spend hours and hours learning how to use a WYSIWYG editor just go with Dreamweaver.

[zapseo]

Just discovered there's a new release of KompoZer!

KompoZer 0.8b1 - Kaz'hack

[zapseo]

Those of you who want the "split window" of DreamWeaver, it's in the 0.8b1 release of KompoZer!

[zoro]

Sorry but NVU totally screws up my script and form codes. If there are no scipt or form codes its ok.

[dave147]

Originally Posted by zoro

Sorry but NVU totally screws up my script and form codes. If there are no scipt or form codes its ok.

Not NVU, Try Kompozer!

[zapseo]

All browsers will futz with how things are displayed.
Doesn't matter if it's in html or in css -- though IE has more interesting issues with css.

Nevertheless, there are workarounds.

A good education can be had by looking at the interfaces that yahoo has developed through it's yui library. Or, rather, looking at the videos that they've made talking about their frontend interface. The YUI libraries achieve consistency by "resetting" the default characteristics set up by browsers -- starting all browsers from the same place. It's what yahoo, itself, uses on their own sites.

Must work.

Originally Posted by Don Schenk

SeaMonkey was an older version of KompoZer and had some security problems.

It started out open source from Mozilla as Mozilla Suite, then the next update became SeaMonkey. The update to remove SeaMonkey's problems was Nvu. But Nvu would sometimes lock up the user's computer. The fix to that problem became KompoZer.

I love Dreamweaver, but it was not an intuitive piece of software to learn. I first used a course in a book by API, then I took a 3 month course at a local community college.

Dreamweaver is only WYSIWYG when used in CSS. Same for KompoZer. With tables and cells, and putting in specific sizes for the tables and cells you can pretty well control how the site will look in different browsers. With CSS the browser decides how the site will look on your viewer's monitor.

From many I've heard good things about Xsite.

:-Don

[opiel]

I am very happy with my xSitePro.

[tremayne]

A lot of designers use Dreamweaver but if you're not computer-savvy I think you'd like XSitePro - and I am not an affiliate. All my sites, some of which are below, are made with it, and I am not particularly computer-savvy!

Sydney

[Ken_Caudill]

Seamonkey. It's free and first-rate. Doubles as a fine browser, too.

[FaJeeb]

Dreamweaver is awesome, hands down. Next best is Kompozer, mostly because it's free.

[koolphoto]

I think Dreamweaver is excellent. But, I like xsitepro for its speed.

I have been doing this for so long and because I mostly work in Wordpress that I now just use notepad and don't bother with editors. For me this is the fastest way to build a site.

[TimothyW]

anyone have any good/bad experiences with this?... BlinkWeb - Free Internet Marketing Website or Blog!

[koolphoto]

I think Dreamweaver is the best wysiwyg html editor. Yes, it does have a learning curve. I loved it when I designed sites with tables. It was pretty fast to do.

Nowadays, I do design everything in css. I find hand-coding in notepad or something similar the best and fastest for css. I never got comfortable designing with css in Dreamweaver.