HTML editor for WinXP

[stephbg]

OK, quietly going crazy here trying to find a simple and preferably free/cheap HTML editor with a WYSIWYG interface and the ability to use cascading style sheets. Any ideas?



I need something that *isn't* a content management system. I just want to produce clean and simple HTML based on a CSS that can be edited manually as required by anyone with a text editor. How hard can that be?

My source documents are messy as hell and are full of excess codes from the content management system they used to come out of.

You know, I was almost tricked into falling for MS Publisher when I used it for a tricky brochure layout recently, and it has some easy web site templates and tools. BUT IT PUBLISHES CRAP FULL OF STYLES JUST LIKE MS FRONT PAGE AND NO-ONE TAKES THAT SERIOUSLY.

And I call myself a professional. I hang my head in shame. And then kick something petulantly :-(

Ah, Hotdog Pro V.1.0, where art thou gone?

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[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Sorry, work bought me dreamweaver so I haven't felt the need to look elsewhere.

Agree with you on the publisher & front page...

[anysia.livejournal.com]

Before I migrated to HomeSite (I stopped short of Dreamweaver) I used to use CoffeeCup. It has drag and drop menus, and some templates (or did last time I used it)

There are two versions (of course) the trimmed down free version and the pay for me version.

EDIT: Yanno, I might actually have Hotdog 1.0 archived on my old Toshiba 120 pentium. Will check it.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I'm in no hurry to return to HD Pro1, but it did the job back in the day.

I'll check out CoffeeCup, ta.

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest CoffeeCup. I have Dreamweaver at work, but I am yet to install it at home. CoffeeCup does me well enough.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

*nods* It works great.

I have stuck with HomeSite since version 1.x. once I was introduced to it. It morphed into DreamWeaver one version after the one I have. I am firm believer of "If it ain't broke.. don't fix it."

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia lists a few options

Myself, I mostly use a fancy text editor, maybe something separate just for CSS.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

That is pretty much what I do with HomeSite. Also, my FTP programs comes with an html editor.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

My extremely fancy text editor comes with a built in (S)FTP program (and very extensive html editing features, though no inbuilt HTML WYSIWYGness).

I've found the combination of a really good text editor and browsers with every developer feature turned on and plugin added is the best for me (Firefox developer plugins are particularly great). But other peoples milage will no doubt vary.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

(Quietly mutters Ubuntu and Screem or Amaya in the background, hoping no-one hears him.)

[livelurker.livejournal.com]

Not sure if it'll fit the bill but worth checking out NVU: http://www.nvu.com/

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I'm giving KompoZer a try already. My biggest issues are the total mess of the source material, and the many and varied joys of HTML. With completely different appearances in editing, preview, Opera and Explorer views it's hard to track down problems in the source. I particularly disapprove of STRONG tags.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone at the WritersUA conference mentioned that Microsoft

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Someone at the WritersUA conference mentioned that Microsoft <yes, devil spawn itself!> has made available - for free - Visual Web Developer Express, and that he found it as good as Dreamweaver etc. I haven't downloaded and tried it yet, but I believe you can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall

Personally, I do it the 'macho' way with EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com), a text editor with colour-coded syntax highlighting. Not as fully fledged as some of the packages, but memories of FrontPage Beta turned me off 'out of the box' solutions ever since those heady days of web development in 1996!

Rhonda