Free Web Editors, HTML and Site Builder and WYSIWYG Web Editors
Are you looking for a free yet better editor to design your web site? There are some free WebSite Builders, Web Editors, WYSIWYG Editors and well as some very special editors which are optimized for CSS or other various web script languages like Perl, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and Java etc..There are mainly two types of Web Editors :
1. WYSIWYG Web Editors and…
2. Site Builders which allow us to design our web sites from packaged templates, whereas the first one is just like a word processor where you design your website a WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET screen.
1. Free HTML Editors / ASCII Text Web Editors
This Notetab Light is a freeware version of the commercial Pro and Standard versions. It has lots of features as a general text editor and comes with various HTML editing features including a very usefull “Clipbook” facility.
HAPedit is specially very useful for people who need to develop both static and dynamic web sites. It provides for syntax highlighting for ASP, HTML, JavaScript, PHP; and comes with a project manager etc. This is a Windows application.
This web editor comes complete with built-in FTP upload facility, making it simple for you to write and author your webpages and then publish it online without ever leaving the web editor.
PSPad
PSPad is a complete full featured text web page editor which you can use to edit all PHP, HTML, C, JavaScript, Perl, etc. It also has its own built-in feature which allows you to edit all binary files.
Quanta Plus Web Development Tool
Quanta Plus is a Linux HTML editor for KDE. It has various features such as easy configuration of toolbars, syntax highlighting, web site uploading facility, and the facility to change and update a web site from CVS (with a plugin), etc.
Matrix Y2K Freeware HTML Editor
Matrix Y2K is a HTML editor which has support for multiple documents, multiple languages, search and replace, syntax highlighting, external preview, internal preview of your web page, table wizard, image file browser, ability to create script library and forms support.
Bluefish is known as a programmer’s HTML editor, which is specially designed to save the more experienced web master some keystrokes. It has features such as multiple toolbars, multiple file editor, custom image, menus and thumbnail dialogs. Bluefish runs on FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, NetBSD, Tru64/Alpha, Mac OSX, HP-UX and OpenBSD.
HTML-KitThis HTML-Kit text editor is designed for use by webdevelopers, and is equipped with good support for writing XML, HTML and scripts.
An web editor that supports lots of features which are useful for HTML text editing yet has an clear, uncluttered interface. It is also free for non-commercial use.
2. Free Website Builders and WYSIWYG Web Editors.
This WYSIWYG site builder and web editor features site management tools, drag and drop website layouts, a form builder, photo gallery, support for Quicktime and Flash, rollover images and more. Note: if you need the free version, you must register online when installing to get yourself a serial number.
KompoZer is a powerful WYSIWYG web editor which allows you to build web sites in a simple easy way, using a clear visual interface. Typically, it is an updated version of Nvu web editor but complete with bug fixes.
SeaMonkey Composer (Mozilla Composer)Seamonkey, the webbrowser suite from Mozilla, comes with a good WYSIWYG webeditor which has the ability to quickly code webpages using a similar word processor-like interface.
Amaya Web Browsing and Authoring
Amaya Web Browsing is an open source webbrowser & WYSIWYG authoring environment which supports and allows users to design and develop webpages without any knowledge about CSS or HTML. You can design your web pages and directly view them using this advanced software. It supports HTML, CSS, MathML 2.0 and XHTML.
Trellian Web PAGE which is a free WYSIWYG webeditor has syntax highlighting HTML editor with a drag and drop interface, table creation wizard, built in FTP uploader, form creation wizard and a preview screen which allows us to see the webpage under three very common screen widths (800, 1024 and 640).
Nvu – Complete Web Authoring System
(Update: Nvu has now been discontinued. You must beware of scam sites which pretend to be Nvu website and then asking for support/donations. The official site is now gone, and currently there are no replacement web sites. So, meanwhile, you may use KompoZer, which is very similar just like Nvu with a new name and with some bug fixes done)