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HTML
Editors
*Note of Caution: Nvu, Coffee
Cup, and Kompozer
do not handle php very well. They tend to strip the php out or move it
when you save. You can
get around this by opening up the saved file with notepad and then
entering any php that you need to insert.
KompoZer
http://www.kompozer.net/
Probably
the best free "WYSIWYG" HTML editor available. Bills itself as the
“unofficial Nvu bug-fix release.” This is the one you should download
and use. A history of its predecesors is offered below but only for
background
information. Kompozer also has a site manager (you can open multiple
tabs) and
a cascading style sheet manager,
*The
following are only provided to give you a background view of the two
main open source "WYSIWYG" editors that led up to Kompozer. Kompozer is
the editor that we recommend you should be using.
NVU (pronounced en-view, as in
“New view”)
http://www.nvu.com/
NVU
is an upgraded re-work of Mozilla that was sponsored by Linspire.
Linspire is the company that promotes its version of the open source
operating system Linux along with an extensive library of applications
to use with it.
SeaMonkey [Internet Suite from
Mozilla Foundation]
http://www.mozilla.org/
SeaMonkey
is a community project to develop quality code for the former “Mozilla
Application Suite” with an emphasis on Firefox,
the
browser, and
Thunderbird,
the e-mail client
application. Firefox is a top-line browser you can customize however
you like. Thunderbird is great for managing multiple e-mail accounts
which makes it a solid replacement for Outlook. Both of these
applications are free and a joy to use.
Robert “KaiRo”
Kaiser, head of the Mozilla Localization Project within the SeaMonkey
Council, announced the release of version 1.1.4 of SeaMonkey on August
6, 2007. This update resolves some security issues particularly with
Firefox and Thunderbird. So, if you are using SeaMonkey be sure you are
using the 1.1.4 version.
The Mozilla composer can be accessed
from within SeaMonkey by using CTRL + 4. This is a pretty good basic
HTML editor but has more bugs and is more unstable than NVU or Kompozer
listed above.
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File Transfer Program for Uploading Files to Your Server
FileZilla
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
This
is an excellent FTP program and it is FREE!
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