Web Design and Graphics Room. Thread, Free HTML Editors

CPS · #1 9th-September-2006, 09:06 PM

The list of Free HTML Editors seems to have gone awol, so have started a new list.
The top two are very good,

Alleycode
http://www.alleycode.com/

NVU
http://nvu.com/index.php

Another very good one but not drag & drop is HTML Validator Lite.
As the name implies it is an editor to validate your code and highlight errors for correction.
Can be used as an HTML editor also.
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/

Drag and drop editors
Note: the drag & drop ones I have not tested.
I found this free Drag & Drop one you can try.

The page also carries links to other drag & drop editors.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wysiwygwebbuilder.html

jibi · #2 13th-September-2006, 12:33 PM

Dynamic HTML Editor

Dynamic HTML Editor (Free) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that takes advantage of the absolute positioning techniques os CSS 1 (style sheets).

It allows you to design web pages by simply dragging elements into place.

You can also take advantage of advanced CSS features like overlapping images and other techniques that are not possible with plain HTML. CSS is supported by all major browsers, so your web page will look the same to every visitor.
Dynamic HTML Editor (Free) can be used to create HTML, ASP, PHP, CFM, JSP, XML pages and also provides an option to insert code elements if needed.

You can import images, associate events to part of labels, pictures, input fields and more. Great for beginners to design a web page, but also very handy for established webmaster that want to generate CSS based page layouts

from
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/DHE...dheeditor.html

Probably the best one out there :wink:

george

jibi · #3 17th-September-2006, 08:30 PM

How about this one for the grandkids

http://www.the-webwizard.co.uk/

george

jibi · #4 18th-December-2006, 12:07 AM

One more

http://www.pagebreeze.com/

george

bob12a · #5 19th-December-2006, 09:26 AM

I have one word for you george (scroll down to see it) Thanks

sorted

Skyrunner · #6 19th-December-2006, 11:53 PM

Quote:

CSS is supported by all major browsers, so your web page will look the same to every visitor.

Unfortunately that's not quite the case. Although recent browsers all support CSS, they often interpret it quite differently.

So I'm afraid there's no escaping the fact that you need to test your pages in as many browsers as possible, and certainly in the most widely used versions of the main browsers in use.

Make it easy for yourself by composing your pages for a standards compliant browser like Mozilla. (Firefox) Then you may well have to add some extra code snippets or "hacks" to compensate for IE's idiosyncrasies! :wink:

CPS · #7 20th-December-2006, 05:02 PM

Sky is dead right, every Browser renders code differently, what works in one may not work in another.

No Editor caters for this problem, that why its so handy to learn HTML so you can edit the code.

Keep it simple, use standard HTML, the normal personal website does not need to use CSS.

Cross Browser compatibility and the difficulty of solving problems with CSS,
is shown in the post "Audio Control Buttons in a Web Site".

Some WYSIWYG Editors add allot of excess code that's not required for the finished page.
The trouble is, this unused code remains on the finished page.

On one occasion I edited a members webpage that covered 3 A4 sheets,
I reduced it down to 1 A4 sheet just by removing the excess code the Editor added.

jibi · #8 3rd-January-2007, 06:02 PM

10 years and it still doesn't work properly!!!

makes you wonder ???

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/#support

Seems to work for most of us.

george

Skyrunner · #9 7th-January-2007, 01:11 AM

That link covers browsers up to 2003 jibi, we've come a long way since then.

It's not standards compliant CSS that's at fault, it's when browsers. - especially Internet Explorer, - interpret it their own way.
I'm doing all my sites in CSS now, so I need to test and test again. :wink:

jibi · #10 7th-January-2007, 05:15 PM

cut and paste from the site

CSS Browsers

The easiest way to start experimenting with style sheets is to download one of the browsers that support CSS. Not all of the browsers below implement the full specification, but releases are coming out fast so this should soon change. Various sites describe bugs and work-arounds.
# 2006-11-24 Microsoft released the Internet Explorer version 7 Web browser, with support for CSS 2, transparent PNG, and more. (Windows, free)
# 2006-01-16 Oregan Networks offers the Oregan TV Browser, with support for CSS2, XHTML, XML, etc. (Various embedded platforms)
# 2005-12-07 KDE (K Desktop Environment) has released version 3.5. The included Konqueror browser passes the Acid2 test. (Unix/X, Open Source)
# 2005-12-01 Mozilla released version 1.5 of the Firefox browser. (Many platforms, Open Source)

I don't see how you get

Quote:

That link covers browsers up to 2003

george

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