Web Page Editors

[crokett]

I am looking for alternatives to Front Page. It needs to be WYSIWYG and preferably has site templates etc. I'd also like it to be free, or relatively cheap.

Any recommendations?

[Wood_workur]

http://www.osalt.com/kompozer
http://www.osalt.com/nvu

but notepad is the best webpage editor, however it is not (and never will be) wysiwyg

[Alex Franke]

Micro$oft has flavor of Visual Studio Express (which is free) called Visual Web Developer.

The Visual Web Developer Express is a free web development tool that allows developers to evaluate the web development and editing capabilities of the other Visual Studio 2008 editions at no charge. Its main function is to create ASP.NET websites.

It has a WYSIWYG interface, drag-and-drop user interface designer; enhanced HTML & code editors; a (limited) database explorer; support for other web technologies (e.g., CSS, Javascript, XML); and integrated, design-time validation for standards including XHTML 1.0/1.1 and CSS 2.1. Visual Web Developer 2008 Express includes a new integrated HTML designer based on Microsoft Expression Web.

I use Visual Studio every day and I love it. I haven't used the Express versions, though.

I wouldn't say that Notepad is the "best" because it lacks a lot of features that development environments have (validation, syntax checking, intellisense, context help, etc), but it is fast, light-weight and always there when you need it -- I still use it a lot, even for code files.

Lately though I've favored NotePad++ -- it's like Notepad but doped. Very very cool little tool. *Very* cool. Lots of plug-ins, too. (Did I mention *very* cool?) Check it out here: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

[crokett]

Hrrm...

Thanks fellas. I will look into these.

[Wandere]

I haven't used one in a few years and they change fast. last one I used was Dreamweaver (far from free).

When I look for freeware, I hit www.tucows.com or www.nonags.com

Both have rating systems too.

Here's a list from nonags of freeware utils. Web development in the lower right. http://www.nonags.com/menu-s.asp

-Rob

[RayintheUK]

The best, by far, is HTML-Kit. Download it from here.

Ray.

[kirkroy]

Here are some to check out:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmas...leditors.shtml

I do intranet stuff at work and use ConText myself (free but not wysiwyg, much better than notepad ). http://www.context.cx/ It's got code highlighters, doodads for making it easier to format code, etc (I use it for coldfusion and css).

This thing isn't working right now but you can get some neat ideas from this css generator: http://www.strangebanana.com/generator.aspx. Otherwise, I just use pages I like as templates on the rare occasion I'm looking for a template...

[crokett]

Ok, some additional requirements based on scope creep from the customer (LOML).

our hosting company uses mySQL for databases. I have one created and have some test data in it. Front Page does not have native support for mySQL but I found an ODBC driver I can configure to talk to the database. Question is, since the hosting site is a non-windows server, would I need the same ODBC setup on the server for anything created in Frontpage to work once it is published?

Edited to add that I haven't finished looking at all the suggestions, however it is becoming apparent that Front Page is probably not the answer.