Good visual html editor ?

jonfr · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Denmark

I am looking for a good visual html editor. But it appears that the html editor in Semonkey has a bug in it that prevents me from saving new html files. So I need a new visual html editor fast, as I need to update my html web pages soon.

Any good recommendation ?

Thanks for the help.

rndusr · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 392

The good recommendation is of course to learn HTML and write your files by hand. HTML editors have never been a source of quality websites..

Having that said, there is something called Quanta, which might suit your needs.
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jonfr · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Denmark

chiefbag · Guru Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 542 Location: The Kingdom

Try vim or gvim. I am sure there are extensions available for this.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

BlueGriffon will do exactly what you want.

jonfr · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Denmark

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

There's also Kompozer, but you'll have to go digging through layman for that as it's in the sabayon overlay.

wjb · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:59 pm Post subject:

OpenOffice?

(But... raw html is about as easy as it gets, and a syntax highlighting text editor adds a bit on top)

Biker · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:28 am Post subject:

jmpoby · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Lyon

Hi, and sorry for my english.
I was looking for a good wysiwyg just for html's pages, not a full IDE, and so on. I give a try to Mozilla-Seamonkey. It do exactly what i want. Sure it's better to learned HTML language, but with seamonkey's compozer you got a clean static web page without any tags that you don't put yourself like's <div>, <p>...

Regards
JM

Havin_it · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:42 pm Post subject:

jonfr, I understand where you're coming from and at one time I would have totally agreed: who needs the hassle? When I had classes that required making HTML pages, I just used MS Word.

Later, out of interest, I looked at the code of these pages, and even without knowing what any of it meant I thought: that does not look right. I came across a beginners' HTML tutorial (from Tucows, IIRC) and found that even as someone with no computing training whatsoever, I got the main concepts very quickly and found I could create a page that looked the same as my earlier MSWord efforts but required only a third as much code!

I suppose a lot depends on what your pages are for. If they are just for personal and a few friends' use, and you won't need to update them often, then probably it doesn't matter. But if you want a consistent-looking site with less effort where you can change its whole look very easily, then you owe it to your own sanity to use a single CSS file to provide the visual style - 100 times easier than changing every single page bit-by-bit in word-processor style, believe me. Clean code is also valuable insofar as it should be more future-proof: WYSIWYG-written pages created circa Internet Explorer 6 will look horrendous in modern browsers (even newer IE, usually), but pages written to standards are more likely to look as good years later. Also, if search engines are of any concern, know that they penalise spaghetti-code.

OK, sermon over. Here are some WYSIWYG editors.

Amaya: written by the W3C so hopefully the code should be reasonable. Not in portage tree, but a couple of overlays:
http://gpo.zugaina.org/www-client/amaya

Kompozer: standalone version of the Netscape editor as used by SeaMonkey. Same as above, overlay only:
http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-editors/kompozer

OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) Writer/Web: Just had a quick look, and the code is just as hideous as MSWord's

but I mean, it works I guess.

That's all I know of for Linux, though you could always look for some Windows ones to run in WINE; Dreamweaver's kinda nice, if you can afford it

and I'm sure there are a few freeware ones of varying quality.

Also, there may be better specialist tools for exactly what you're wanting to do. Photo gallery? KDE has built-in tools for creating these in a couple of clicks (I expect other DEs do too). Blog? If your web-hosting supports it, install Wordpress and you can write rich pages in WYSIWYG style right on the server.

If you are used to using SeaMonkey, then I'd suggest filing a bug report so you can get it fixed, though admittedly this may not meet your "fast" requirements.

Seriously though, if you can possibly spare half an hour a day for a week or so to work through a beginners' tutorial (there are sooo many online), you'll be amazed by how simple it is and how rewarding it will feel. And remember I speak as someone who once saw things exactly as you do now.