dkbhosting.com — Fri, 14 Sep 2001 03:39:18 +0000

I usually just use notepad. Then I got a template for a site, and well it was a lot of code and I didnt know what went where. So I looked around my room and found front page for it. I just used the editing part and did not use any of its extra features(which I do not like) and it worked well for me. Of course I didnt make a backup of the first site. Created a new web in it. Then imported my pages, and I accedently hit a theame. So to all my nice pages a bunch of stuff was added. I lost about 4 hours of work. Other then that, for simple editing I prefer front page.

BOF — Mon, 10 Sep 2001 04:28:46 +0000

NetObjects as a company has now closed its doors, but their premier product, Fusion MX, remains one of the best WYSIWYG editors out there. It is still available for purchase at http://www.netobjects.com/purchase/index.html .

Support for the product is gaining momentum - even promises to be better than with NetObjects! a good example is at http://barye.org/nof/index.html . There's a developing forum at http://www.netobjectsforum.com/ , and there seems to be a good chance that someone will buy the code and continue development. I would encourage you to give it a try.

Disclaimer: I have no financial or other connection with Fusion or NetObjects other than being a satisfied user.

Namo HTML Editor

Mon, 10 Sep 2001 03:50:24 +0000

I use an HTML Editor called Namo. It was
rated as one of the top html softwares at
CNET. It is not widely known, but works
great! I used it to make the transition from
a brand new webmaster to actually going into
the code and making changes.

You can check out their site at http://www.namo.com

Since I was on a budget, like most people I
used this editor to start a web page solely
dedicated to free tools for webmasters.

http://www.gowebpage.net

1stpage2000

andyn20 — Sun, 09 Sep 2001 18:57:15 +0000

first page 2000

its buggy but it lets me test unlimited browsers

andrew

openmind — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:55:37 +0000

I must admit I'm a FrontPage Fanatic....

I built my first site using FPExpress which, to be completely honest was about as hopeless as my first site

Since the I progressed through FP 98 and now FP2000. I must admit the version I'm using now suits me fine. Its great for making sure my site is correctly laid out through the folder explorer bar and its dead easy to quickly create tables & stuff. The only downside is that because its made by Mico$oft the preview feature doesn't support ColdFusion So I have to constantly have IE open and refresh the screen to preview any work I have done.

brookie — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:27:13 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Gyrbo
Oh OK. Anybody know of a PHP editor?

Editplus and Ultraedit will highlight keywords and syntax.

mjames — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:41:03 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by anti
A second test would be a size analisys of the produced HTML. (Netmechanic used to do this for free, but not anymore.)

Here's my favorite alternative: http://w21.hitbox.com/world/page.cgi?doctor

anti — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:32:44 +0000

please, before deciding which HTML wysiwyg you use, run it's output quickly through an html validator( e.g. http://validator.w3.org/). If that says your HTML is bad, so is your editor/designer.
(This was the reason the local university got rid of NOF.)

A second test would be a size analisys of the produced HTML.
(Netmechanic used to do this for free, but not anymore.)
Bandwidth is cheap today, but that's not a reason to waste it.

Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:16:59 +0000

I use CoffeeCup's html editor. I still end up hard coding everything within it, but it has some features that I like. I've looked at GoLive but have really tried to do anything with it.

taff — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:15:44 +0000

I've used NOF. At least, I've played with the demo. It is ok as far as WYSIWYG editors go but is still a WYSIWYG editor.

If I had to rank the big 3 WYSIWYG editors from my limited experience it would be as follows:

1/ Dreamweaver - I actually use this on occasion when I'm lazy/strapped for time.
2/ NetObjects Fusion - Simply because I dislike FrontPage even more.
3/ FrontPage

None of the above come close to text editors.