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Free HTML Editors
The most popular free HTML editor is probably Netscape
Composer which was a part of Netscape Suit. It is a GUI-based editor
without access to the markup (which is a major weakness) but it is
professionally written has a good set of features and is quite adequate for
small documents.
NVU is a derivative
of Netscape Composer based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine.
It was a project initiated and soon abandoned by
Linspire. The version
from NVU site is quite buggy and I do not recommend using it.
An unofficial bugfix/update called
"KompoZer" is
available here. KompoZer is not a cure-all for
all the bugs in NVU 1.0, but it does fix some of the major annoyances.
Another alternative which I never managed to try is
radria. It's
a web based application that is compatible with mac, windows and linux. It
includes tons of modules and Add-On scripts that NVU doesn’t have. Another
alternative to NVU is Quanta.
KompoZer features
are identical to Netscape Composer. It actually has the same annnoances. Among
some features:
- WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter
with your word processor.
- Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site
and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from
your site.
- Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular
browsers.
- Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
- Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
- Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
- The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop
Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.
Notes:
- This is a Spartan WHYFF (We Help
You For Free) site written by people for whom English
is not a native language.
Some amount of grammar and spelling errors should be
expected.
- The site contain some broken links
as it develops like a living tree...
Please try to use Google, Open directory,
etc. to find a replacement link (see
HOWTO search the WEB for details). We would appreciate
if you can
mail us a correct link.
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Instead of NVU I would suggest Radria
http://radria.sqlfusion.com/
Its active, i’ve been using it for sometime and I love
it.
Alleycode is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML
editor with unique features. If you are new to HTML, Alleycode's great tutorial
will walk you through your first coding steps... If you are an established coder
you will find a refreshing, non-bloated infrastructure with fast and accurate
delivery. Beyond HTML, Alleycode's wizardry focuses on PHP and CSS interaction
for professional and easy management of your projects. Best of all, Alleycode
is FREE! (we do accept donations if
you find it useful).
From Australia to California to Germany, professional
web builders are exploring 1st Page 2000, the world's
free web builder to create and manage world-class Web
sites. Its power and flexibility lets anyone create
the web site they want. Ask any professional web builder
and they'll tell you the sad stories behind using standard
WYSIWYG editors. Professional web builders know that
WYSIWYG editors never create clean html code which means
they'll end up wasting more time fixing, cleaning and
correcting code later on. With this common problem in
mind, you'll be glad to hear that 1st Page never ruins
HTML code, infact it doesn't even add unwanted html
codes to your important projects.Evrsoft 1st Page
2000 helps you write, edit and improve your HTML, its
powerful tools let you author websites faster, easier
and better! Most new builders don't realize the time
they're losing by relying on traditional based text
editors like WindowsTM Notepad to author
their sites. Whether you're a beginner or an HTML guru
you'll find 1st Page 2000 great to use!
"Nobody makes great looking websites that easily.
You get what you pay for. If it takes you 10 minutes
to create a website in a WYSIWYG editor, you're going
to get a 10 minute result" - Mark Stevenson
"If I'm editing text files I use Notepad, if I'm
creating high-end graphics I use SGI workstations, If
I make web sites I use a HTML editor that's designed
specifically for the job." - Juin Carter
Although the concepts underlying
open-source software seem almost counterintuitive in an age of greed and jealous
guarding of intellectual property, it has worked well in several areas, notably
in operating systems (Linux), server and several flavors of Linux -- as well
as more than a half-dozen foreign languages.
The interface is built around two
window panes. One is a site manager, which provides functions you'd find in
an FTP program. FTP is how files that make up a Web site are uploaded to the
Internet. The other pane is where you build your Web pages.
As you build a page, you can see
various views of your work by clicking on tabs at the bottom of the editing
pane. View changes are lightening fast.
Multiple
Views
There's a "normal" view. It displays
your page as it will appear online, but with table borders and anchors visible.
Tables are like spreadsheets for objects on a Web page. Anchors are links to
specific locations on a page. That contrasts with "links," which direct a browser
to an entire Web page.
There's also an "HTML tags" view.
Here your page appears as it would online, but its objects are labeled with
yellow boxes that indicate the underlying HTML code. "P," for example, would
indicate the code for paragraph. Changes in the code for an object can be made
by clicking on a box.
When you click on a box, a form
box pops up. Formatting choices can be made by clicking buttons and altering
text fields in the pop-up.
Convenient
Editing
There's a source code view too,
which shows you the raw HTML code for your page.
Finally, there's the preview view.
That displays the page as it would appear in a browser window, although links
and JavaScript on the page are inactive.
What makes the view setup even more
convenient is that you can make editing changes in any view. That includes dragging
and dropping text and images from other applications or the Internet onto a
page.
The program also allows you to edit
multiple pages during a session. Each page you have open appears as a tab at
the top of the editing pane. You can swiftly move between pages by clicking
the appropriate tab.
One-Click
Publishing
Elements on a page can be speedily
created and formatted by using the toolbars at the top of the program's interface.
With a click of an icon on the main
toolbar, you can publish your site and insert elements like anchors, links,
images, tables and forms.
With the formatting toolbar, you
can tag blocks of text, tinker with their size and color, and set their style
-- bold, italic, underline, align them and create numbered or bulleted lists.
There's even a built-in CSS editor
that advanced Web authors will find very useful.
Nvu is a tremendous piece of work
that outshines many of its commercial competitors. Not only is it a free lunch,
but it's a mighty tasty one, too.
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Powerful
Style Sheet Editor |
In case of broken links
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Bluefish Editor Home
Bluefish 0.13 features a new bookmarks functionality, much improved project management,
auto tag closing, better navigation trough opened documents, a much more responsive
user interface, again many user interface improvements, many bug fixes and much,
much more!
Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers.
Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing
dynamic and interactive websites. See
features
for an extensive overview, take a look at the
screenshots,
or download
it right away. Bluefish is an
open
source development project, released under the GPL licence.
Bluefish runs on most (all?) POSIX compatible operating systems including
Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD, Solaris and Tru64.
www.suse.com:
Bluefish is by far the most powerful among the HTML editors we tested. It
is probably the most potent editor for Linux in general.
newsforge.com: GPL-licensed Bluefish has become an excellent "production
tool" for those of who earn our living writing for Web sites, full of little
"speed you up" features [..] It is an excellent example of how a multinational
group of talented programmers can produce a piece of work under the GPL that
is at least as good as any commercial program
www.linuxorbit.com:
The Bluefish HTML editor is an excellent example of of how good open source
programs can be. It is feature rich, with lots of time saving tools for experienced
coders and friendly enough for newbies to be productive in little or no time.
software.linux.com: If you've ever longed for an HTML editor that is
easy to use, yet doesn't try to do everything for you, Bluefish is just the
editor for you. It has a wealth of features that will make your programming
easier, but in the end you retain total control of the HTML
www.linuxplanet.com: Bluefish marries the best of GUI's and traditional
text editing into a customizable, useful package.
www.lindows.com: One of the most powerful editors for Linux + Supports
many programming and markup languages + Lots of time saving tools for experienced
users + Friendly enough for beginners + Its wealth of features will make your
programming easier + While letting you maintain control over your code
Vote for Bluefish on OSDir.com
NVU is a derivative
of Netscape Composer based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine.
It was a project initiated and soon abandoned by
Linspire. version
from NVU site is quite buggy.
An unofficial bugfix/update called
"KompoZer" is
available here. KompoZer is not a cure-all for
all the bugs in NVU 1.0, but it does fix some of the major annoyances.
Features are identical
to Netscape composer:
- WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter
with your word processor.
- Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site
and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from
your site.
- Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular
browsers.
- Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
- Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
- Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
- The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop
Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.
KompoZer 0.7.7 beta
Build your Web pages with this open
source wysiwyg HTML editor built on NVU.
Read editor's review...
[Dec 16, 2004]
Techtree.com FrontPage Gets Open Source Foe
Based on
Mozilla Internet technology and Netscape Composer the tool doesn't require
programming or HTML coding. It is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You
Get) editor, which means users can create Web pages like a word-processing
document.
Linspire, producer of the desktop Linux operating system, started the
Nvu project as a complement to the other desktop Linux Web browsers
and tools offered by Mozilla. Nvu was created from the code base of
Netscape Composer.
Mozilla was broken off from Netscape after Netscape was acquired by
AOL and had been pouring most of its efforts into browsers and email
programs. Since most of it's efforts were going into the development
of Firefox and Thunderbird, there were fewer resources available for
advancing a Web authoring tool based on Netscape Composer.
Linspire contributed to this part of the project by providing more development
resources and capital to the Composer-based product - renamed Nvu -
to round out the Mozilla Internet suite.
"Mozilla has done phenomenal work developing a Web suite with alternatives
to Microsoft, including the Firefox browser and soon, the Thunderbird
email program. But there was a void in developing a Web publishing tool,
which is why we adopted the Nvu project," said Michael Robertson, CEO
of Linspire, Inc.
"Our hope is that Nvu will compete with FrontPage just like Firefox
competes with Internet Explorer," added Robertson.
The cross-platform Web editor works on numerous operating systems, including
Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, OS/2, FreeBSD, Linspire, and many Linux-based
systems.
Download
here
Nvu - The
Complete Web Authoring System for Linux
Nvu is the new Web
editing environment based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout
engine. Primarily made for
Linspire and other
Linux flavors, its cross-platform architecture makes it available on
a wide variety of other platforms.
Nvu 0.5 binary test builds are
now available
for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
Amaya Home Page
Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update
documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with
the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows
the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way
publishing medium.
Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies
in a fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was
to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as possible.
It is used to demonstrate these technologies in action while taking advantage
of their combination in a single, consistent environment.
Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since
that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications
such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies
to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.
Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application based
on Resource Description Framework (RDF),
XLink, and XPointer. Visit the
Annotea project
home page.
Amaya - Open Source
Amaya is an
open source software
project hosted by W3C. You are invited to
contribute
in many forms (documentation, translation, writing code, fixing bugs, porting
to other platforms...).
The Amaya software is written in C and is available for Windows,
Unix platforms and MacOSX.
Arachnophilia
Arachnophilia
Home Page
Download Arachnophilia 5.2, build 1959 (12/08/2003) (Java)
License: CareWare
Size: 1.6 MB
Author: Paul Lutus
Rating: 5/5
ZDNet Rating: 4/5
Tucows Rating: 5/5
This is, without a doubt, one of the
best freeware HTML Editors available. In truth, its many hidden features can compete
with much of the low-end shareware or software out there. Its interface is not beautified
the way HomeSite or HotDog is, but it still does suggest functionality and power
in a non-overwhelming manner. Beginners will find the ability to convert an RTF
file into HTML as well as the included basic HTML tutorial (included in the help
file) very useful. One of Arachnophilia's more powerful features, find and replace
functions that check all open documents, is very useful for large web sites. Arachnophilia's
support of HTML tag coloring is not as advanced as many professional editors, but
it certainly helps when reading code. You can also format or "beautify" your code
to make it more readable. Another thoughtful feature is the ability to create up
to 26 keyboard macros for repetitive blocks of code. Decent site analyzation, internal
and external browser pre-viewing, wizards and site updating place Arachnophilia
ahead of the rest. Arachnophilia is CareWare - an unbeatable price for such a good
program.
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xhtml
-- The xhtml (aka "A.S.H.E "A Simple HTML Editor). Written by John R. Punin
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, this is a Motif statically-linked editor
with split windows for simultaneous editing and viewing. The viewer does not
support loading of images, but does include image placeholders. Scroll down
menus and pushbuttons simplify the placement of tags. It also includes menus
for creating forms. Keep in mind that you'll need nls (9k) if you don't already
have it. The nls files allow you to run Motif/XFree 2.1 apps under XFree 3.x.
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asWedit -- HTML and text editor for Motif. It offers three independent modes:
a plain text editing mode and two context-sensitive, validating modes for authoring
of HyperText Markup Language documents as used on the Internet and intranets.
Its commercial version is called ASWedit. Current Version: 3.0 Copyright Type:
Free for students and staff in education and charitable non-profit organizations,
and for free evaluation by individuals and commercial organizations.
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IBM
WebSphere TopPage
Etc
AOL Press - AOL has abandoned one of the best free web page editors.
But you can still download it from the Internet. I know, it's from AOL, but they
had to do something right sometime, didn't they? This is actually a good freeware
wysiwyg website editor. With support for frames, forms, tables, link check, spell
check, and a decent html tutorial
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