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HTML / WYSIWYG Editors

Jan 15, 2008 10:20PM PST

Can anybody recomend for me a decent free HTML / WYSISYG website design editor that has the ability to do tasks such as image rollovers, UK English spellcheck etc I am currenly using NVU but find this very limited in what you can do!

Thanks in advance
Dustin

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moved away
Jan 16, 2008 2:59AM PST

I have almost completely moved away from WYSIWG for probably the same reasons you are having trouble with NVU. In an attempt to make it easy for the "designer" the editor ends up adding extra, and sometimes non-compliant, code to the page.

I would find yourself a good editing program that will auto-highlight code for you and work with that. I don't do a ton of coding, more of a hobby and use a PHP editor that highlights and indents my code for me. I am sure others here will have their own suggestions, but you really need to find what works for you.

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Trellian
Jan 19, 2008 4:34PM PST

I compared a bunch of them and ended up using Trellian, the low-end free version. I've been mostly satisfied with it. It doesn't look free, there are lots of features. There's a menu item "Insert Rollover Image" so I assume it'll do that trick for you, tho I haven't used it. Spellcheck yes, but I don't think it speaks like the Queen.

I also have an old Netscape Composer and Frontpage 97 which were handy for modifying tables and frames, since these are not so easy to see in Trellian. The invisible borders don't display. Betwixt all these I managed to produce (copy and modify) a fairly complex set of web pages.

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i like frontpage
Mar 24, 2008 2:05PM PDT

i think frontpage is the easiest i have used. its not free, but you can get it pretty cheap on ebay. the only problems i have with it is the crappy ftp- it times out a lot and gives errors when ftp'ing a large number of files. i use globalscapes cute ftp, but edit my pages with frontpage.

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yahoo sitebuilder
Mar 24, 2008 2:18PM PDT

i've been usin yahoo sitebuilder for years now and only had 1 issue.
however, you'll have to allow yahoo to web host for you.