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best WYSIWYG html editor?


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Personally, I use Frontpage 2003. It like the way you work in it. Dreamweaver is Ok too, but I haven't really tried GoLive too much. I suppose it depends pretty much on how you want to work with the program.

People who say that Frontpage 2003 produces too fat code have clearly never worked with the program. It produces very lean code, at least for designs and formatting. Code that works very well with Mozilla, even. (You can edit elements that will show up in "real" browsers, like Mozilla, but not flawed ones like Internet Explorer. (Some elements will not show properly in Frontpage, but it will "work", so don't worry about it.))

The only bad thing about it is it's relative dependence on Frontpage Server Extensions for the trickier stuff, but I suppose that the very most people don't use that anyway.

That said, it's always good to learn the "language" outside of a WYSIWYG program. Once you learned it, however, it's a lot easier to work in a WYSIWYG. Dreamweaver, Frontpage, makes no difference. In the end, you need to learn how to take control of your code anyway. But a WYSIWYG certainly helps, once you've mastered the basics.

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ok, thanks guys - dreamweaver it is. I'm downloading it now... holy ****, 98.56mb?!? :o thankgod for DAP :p

as for the whole free trail thing, I wanted a free trail so i could juts get a crack off the net ;) just dont let the FBI know OK? :ninja: :shifty: :p

I'll let you know about dreamweaver in about a week... ah, the wonders of 56k :D

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  Mr magoo said:
Front page and dreamweaver have an annoying tendancy to producy crappy code -e.g. <br> not <br /> and <img xxxx > not <img xxxx />. Also, they tend to open and close tags at any opportunity- i.e. specifying the font at each instance rather than say setting it in a css style sheet. It might sound funny, but i found learning to hand code a lot more effective than using WYSIWYG coders. If your not into that tho - Dreamweaver!

I'm not using it as a pure WYSIWYG editor. You can do anything by hand if you want and still get nice assistence of code coloring, code snippets, the O'Reilly HTML reference guide, source formatting, etc, etc.

For example if you need a complex table you can easily insert that and tweak the code. It is way faster then typing it all yourself.

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Dreamweaver all the way. For the people who believe in strict handcoding... your loss! Some WYSIWYG editors improve productivity and possibly creativity because you are forseeing the design in a sense. Then, when you need to make small changes, you can view the code in a text editor later. I do agree, however, that it is good to know HTML if you seriously want to get into web design.

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OK, I've got dreamweaver now :) very, very nice. however, I have a bit of a problem - everytime i create a tabe and try to insert text, the text goes in the center of the table automaticly - I dont want it there and dont know how to fix it.

can anybody help?

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They are always different views on html editors

Much like the firefox/IE war, there is wysiwyg/code war.

If you really don't want to worry about learning every piece of css and (x)html out there, then go for dreamweaver. You'll find that after a while, you'd have learn some of it naturally anyway.

If you then want to go to pure code, then I'd recommend Homesite 5.x, or Visual Studio. Use your browser to see what it looks like.

.....If you want to go for an editor that doesn't frigg your code, you must want to write code that is at least web standard. So ditch those tables. ;-)

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