Free web page creation software
What free software can you use to create web pages and documents, such as tutorials? From HTML processing to online editors, solutions are diverse...
With a simple editor, you need to open two windows: One for the HTML editor, the other for the browser, which allows you to see the rendering by loading the page after each change. But WYSIWYG publishers get rid of the second window, allowing you to change the content in the page as it is presented to the user.
According to the creator of NVU, BlueGriffon has a WYSIWYG mode like dreamweaver. In fact, the Gecko rendering engine is built into the software to present the pages as Firefox.
The software also has that rare Dreamweaver ability to switch between view modes and source code, keeping the cursor position in the document.
But it also has its drawbacks. For example, page loading is quite tedious and accumulates unnecessary steps. When using PHP files, you need to select this option every time you download a new file and wonder why.
Runs Windows, Linux, Mac.
Composer
One of the few WYSIWYG page editing software products created by the Linspire Linux distribution (ex Lindows), but ported to Windows. This is a fork of NVU, designed to promote software, has full functionality and even goes online (albeit extra with an FTP synchronization program). However, it retains the disadvantages of NVU: when you switch from design mode to source mode, you return to the head of the page, there is no contextual connection between modes.
The latest version is dated 2010.
After Dreamweaver, Visual Web Developer Express is the most complete HTML editor. Managing style sheets, using a database, multiple views. When you select part of the text as a design and switch to HTML source mode, you are left on the edited part, contrary to what happens with Kompozer.
In the initial configuration, VWD does not recognize .php pages as HTML pages. You need to add this extension and for this go to the tools -> Text Editor (open) -> File Extension. Add .php and link to HTML editor.
The download includes .NET 3.5 if necessary and can be quite long.
WYSIWYG is a standards-compliant web page editor created by W3C. Amaya is accompanied by a template editor. It also makes a browser and allows you to edit pages directly on the Internet and shows errors in HTML code.
Several tools are built into the command to change the DocType.
It is also an XML, MathML, SVG, and CSS editor.
The Mozilla HTML editor includes Seamonkey in the package. It works locally and has a fairly developed interface.
Chrome Editor
Includes in the Chrome browser, this editor for the current page is suitable primarily for JavaScript code and allows "hot swapping," which consists in changing the code when rotating... Its strong point is a set of debugging tools.
To access the editor:
- Click the configuration icon in the upper right corner.
- Click Tools, and then click Web Development.
- To create an independent window, click the right-most close icon.
- Click Sources, and then in the work window in the upper left corner, click Sources.
- If your code is not being edited, click the Pretty Print button below twice .
Code changes are displayed on the current page.
Advanced Explorer: for on-the-fly file editing
CKEditor, Tiny MCE and online publishers
Content managers have an online editor, often quite poor, which justifies the existence of Live Writer. At the price of a limited visual, unified layout, you get automatic site management with classification of articles by category, generation of RSS feeds... Pligg software, which allows you to create your own digg like, is also achieving great success, since the number of sites of this type is growing exponentially - but no longer relevant.
These programs have a toolbar and full release features. It is possible to interact with CMS and two tutorials on this site show how to use them to edit static web pages online in HTML.
They can also be used locally.
- CKEditor. The most famous today works on all browsers.
- TinyMCE. It is included by default in many CMSs.
Free Office contains complete word processing that can also create lightweight and acceptable HTML files as web pages.
In HTML format, documents lose some of their visual quality, so the software is better suited for documents such as manuals, which will have a web version and a printed PDF version, and a second to preserve the rendering of the original document.
Starting with version 4, FreeOffice is compatible with CMIS, a standard for communicating with CMS such as Wordpress (a plugin is needed for Wordpress 3.5).
An alternative is online text processing Google Docs allows you to transfer pages directly to Wordpress, as Live Writer does locally. How to use this option is explained in How to Wordpress.
To compete with Microsoft Express for Web, Google offers software that will look the same as its competitor's Expression, allowing XAML-based applications. The latter is replaced by HTML with similar functions. A graphical tool is used to create banners, where some see a tool for creating ads.
Ace and online publishers
Tools for HTML 5