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stephbg ([personal profile] stephbg) wrote2008-03-31 02:05 pm
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HTML editor for WinXP

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?

[identity profile] livelurker.livejournal.com 2008-03-31 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Not sure if it'll fit the bill but worth checking out NVU: http://www.nvu.com/

[identity profile] stephbg.livejournal.com 2008-03-31 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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.