I need a free WYSIWYG program.

surreal · October 2nd, 2004, 10:32 PM

I want to slap together some web pages. I want something simple and free..
Not the poo stuff my ISP provides..

Any suggestions?

TIA

surreal

cryptoguy · October 2nd, 2004, 10:51 PM

Ok. There plenty of web page design programs but um.... Most of them are not free. I am a big fan of Dreamweaver, but that is about as far from free as you can get. But FrontPage is not at all good. So I personally don't know any free web page design programs except whatchamacallit Trillian Web (don't even know if it's free) and notepad.

**EvilRick** · October 2nd, 2004, 10:55 PM

HTML-Kit

FREE with lots of FREE plug-ins as well. Reminds me a lot of NOT-FREE Dreamweaver.

njolakoski · October 2nd, 2004, 11:40 PM

Html-Kit is nice Rick recommend it to me awhile ago when i had a thread sorta like urz id get Html-Kit

surreal · October 2nd, 2004, 11:43 PM

Thanks ER

Thanks cryptoguy

But I said WYSIWYG and free! so you recommend Dream Weaver??

cryptoguy · October 3rd, 2004, 12:01 AM

Well, it fills the WYS... But not necesarily the price

rastorize · October 3rd, 2004, 01:14 AM

HTML Kit was one of the first editors I used back when the only choice were Frontpage 2 and the crappy versions of Dreamweaver. Where I work we use three depending on your needs: for HTML use HomeSite (owned by Macromedia; can be purchased alone, or it comes free with Dreamweaver); for WSYIWYG design, Dreamweaver cannot be beat (the best features of Homesite combined with the excellent visual editor of Dreamweaver) - in the old days, Dreamweaver used to add extra code to the source and be rather weak, but since version 4 UltraDev, it has now become the very best. For high level databse and programming I'd recommend .Net Studio. Stay far, far away from the likes of FrontPage or Word.

VHockey86 · October 3rd, 2004, 01:16 AM

NVU is pretty decent too (for free). I've used it in linux on occasion, but they also have a windows version.
http://www.nvu.com/download.html

rastorize · October 3rd, 2004, 01:24 AM

This appears to be a really excellent open source WYSIWYG free HTML edit - looks like a direct clone of Dreamweaver/Frontpage...

Give it a shot - versions for Linux and Win32... http://nvu.com/index.html

VHockey86 · October 3rd, 2004, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rastorize

This appears to be a really excellent open source WYSIWYG free HTML edit - looks like a direct clone of Dreamweaver/Frontpage...

Give it a shot - versions for Linux and Win32... http://nvu.com/index.html

hooray for redundency =)

From my experiance its actualy a little closer to like Frontpage and Netscape Navigators stupid Compose function (which is kind of expected considering its built off the gecko/mozilla core).

But all-in-all, for a free editor its pretty nice and will server most amateur/intermediate web developers just fine.