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I was using an ancient copy of Adobe GoLive to edit a static-page personal website, and asked in the Windows software thread in the Windows hardware/software forum what similar but current software choices there were that were not Adobe Dreamweaver because it costs too much. (Adobe GoLive was the website creation program that Adobe used to sell, before they bought Macromedia and took over Dreamweaver) They all bitched at me because "you're doing it wrong, all that is done online with CMS now", which is not totally incorrect, but anyway. I wanted software on my own PC to do this kind of editing--not an online service. The best alternative I've found is a open-source program called BlueGriffon: http://bluegriffon.org/ It is an open-source software, and there is a FREE version you can download. The free version does not have all the features enabled however. It does HTML, CSS, website templates, HTML5 and all the other modern stuff, it shows the page code and it has an editable WYSIWYG editor. The free version allows you to save the files, and it saves them as "normal" HTML pages and images--it doesn't save them in some odd proprietary format. The free version is entirely usable for editing single pages, but not really ideal for trying to work with an entire website. I paid for the tier-1 license that costs $80. It includes the help files (a PDF download) and enables the Project Manager, which is a treeNode-view of local files and some other things also. The Project Manager is what lets you conveniently see how the website files are arranged, and you can drag and drop them around in the website and editor views. One downside I can already see is that to use the Project Manager, you have to set up a Project in it, and to do that you must enter the remote host's login credentials. It verifies them before finishing creating the project. After that, anyone who starts up the software can edit any of the sites in the Project Manager. There is no other protection to prevent that. I already emailed them to complain about that. You cannot see this issue unless you pay $80 for the license. There is no forum on the website for users. There is a Google group I've found. One complaint people have with using it is that if you make manual changes to the code view and then make any changes to the WYSIWYG view--the program tends to refactorize the entire page, revising your own changes even if they were in a different section of the page. That is not ideal, but not totally unexpected either. -------- If you want something even simpler to use that just does HTML editing mainly, then look at Kompozer: http://www.kompozer.net/ It is another open-source/freeware program that works in standard file types. It doesn't even really "install", you just unzip it and click on the kompozer.exe file to run it. It has a code editor, a WYSIWYG editor, a CSS editor, a theme feature and has a treeNode view built-in also. If you ONLY want to make (or learn to make) plain-HTML websites, it does everything you need and is pretty simple to use. It is free but they only ask $30 for it. edmund745 fucked around with this message at 21:56 on May 29, 2017 |
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