Free HTML Editor?

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[Keltik]

I'm trying to learn HTML and set up a web site.

Can anyone recommend a free, easy-to-use editor? I've heard Front Page was good but that isn't made any more.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

notepad ;-)

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

OK that was capricious.... vi. ;-P

[XeniaSt]

If you are using Mac OS X there is TACO html edit

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

OK fine... go try some of these:

http://tucows.mundofree.com/win2k/htmlbeginner2k_rating.html

[llevrok]

Whew! I am glad I read your post.

The headline originally led me to think some HTML editor had been captured by the Taliban or something.

[Varmint Al]

EXCELLENT FREE SOFTWARE.... Excellent FREE software for about everything you need on your computer. I was impressed with the quality of the software and how well it runs on my new computer. The WRITER software can even read and write .doc files so you can use your old documents made with Word. The download is a .iso file which is a CD disk image file. You can't view the file until you burn it onto a CD using the "Burn Image to Disk" option in Nero or similar options on other CD burning software. There are a number of great programs on the CD once you make it. Currently the file you download is: OpenDisc 07.10 Released! ~545 Mb. It will take a while to download. It took me about 47 minutes with my DSL connection. It is well worth getting.

All free open source software. The NVU html editor is very good. Also FileZill is an excellent ftp program. The Notpad2 is a very efficient text editor.

If the whole CD image file is too much. Here is a link to NVU for a free download.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[elfman2]

Here’s a very good rundown of your options: http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmleditors/tp/freewineditors.htm

[Shimmer]

ping

[Jeff Chandler]

notepad ;-)

I prefer Visual Notepad.

[Slings and Arrows]

http://notepad.org

[potlatch]

Doesn’t ‘wordpad’ convert to HTML? I also saw a thread once that said Outlook Express was one of the most convenient ways of converting text into html??

[sjm_888]

HTML-Kit
http://chami.com/

[potlatch]

Thank you sjm_888. I do my own html for webpages so have never bothered with an editor.

I do like and will try the FavIcon ‘try out’ they have linked there!

[Hyzenthlay]

Honestly, I don't know because I do all my own HTML... I'm nerdy like that =) However, if you're using textedit on a Mac, beware that you have to comment out some of the code at the beginning (like the part) before closing the window the text is in; otherwise, when you open it again, it will open as an HTML document, and you won't be able to get into the code again unless you open it with Safari and view the source code. And, a warning to windows users, for some silly reason Microsoft has Word set as its default HTML editor. Honestly, what a stupid default setting... whoever was responsible for that should be fired, as they have not demonstrated a basic knowledge of what exactly is in a Word document and what that would do to an HTML document.

[Schnucki]

http://www.notetab.com/

[Ted]

Nvu is the leading open source html editor, tons of free templates that work with it and it is a full featured editor.

www.nvudev.com

[ShadowAce]

Once KDE 4 comes out for Windows, you can use Quanta Plus. It's an excellent editor.

[N3WBI3]

well there is always vi for windows;)

but on a more serious note this is pretty nice and it generates pretty clean html:

Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

[martin_fierro]

Arachnophilia

[postaldave]

learning “html” and building a website is two different thing.
if REALLY want to learn “html” then use notepad.

i think what you want is a WYSIWYG editor and in that case chooses are limitless.

[BibChr]

bookmark

[papasmurf]

I was wondering about OpenCD, now your link answered it.

NVu is a good utility for n00bs. SoucreForge is good for Open Source software, also.

Best recommendation for a pure n00b though, is to get your websire from a host that has a multitutde of web learning and creation utilities, like allwebco.com for instance. They’ll hold your hand while your learn.

Good luck.

[Egon]

As someone else pointed out: these two goals can be the same, or completely different.

If all you want to do is quickly build a website, by all means, use one of the WYSISYG editors. Any of the suggestions posted above will likely work well.

If you actually want to learn and understand HTML, though, I'd seriously consider just using a text editor (especially one that highlights HTML syntax), and start experimenting.

HTML is easy to learn-- and takes awhile to master-- like everything else.

I've found this site to be invaluable, both in their tutorials, and as a reference.

Aside from that, simply right-click on a page, and View Source when you find something interesting.

[shorty_harris]

Here's what I did. I grabbed myself a free template from here, then customized it with Quanta (or Nvu).

[Kaylee Frye]

Great minds think alike - that was going to be my suggestion!

[ShadowAce]

Thanks! I hadn’t known about that site before. It’s been bookmarked.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I use PageBuilder. It's nice. And free.

[Graybeard58]

I'm still trying to get the hang of Xinha editor (a firefox thingy).

[dan1123]

I like KompoZer on the rare occasion when I'm not directly editing HTML with a text editor.

[cynwoody]

You could try out SeaMonkey, a Mozilla-based browser which includes an HTML editor. It has a WYSIWYG (visual) mode as well as the ability to edit the raw HTML directly. You can flip between the two modes.