Recommendation needed for free or inexpensive HTML wysiwyg editor

[ChrisOlsen]

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone recommend a free or inexpensive HTML wysiwyg editor? My intent is to use this kind of tool to create/modify html pages and then copied the exact html source code into a blank CMS page so I don't have to learn as much HTML and have hopefully be able to draw on some templates, etc., without re-inventing the wheel.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks...Chris

[GreggRio]

Chris I use something called Kompozer that I have been using. It seems pretty handy and I have done most of my stuff on my Property in Santa Cruz
with it. You can start in the normal or preview section then switch to "source" if you want to add stuff to your site in "expert mode" or at least that is the way in my template site.

You can do your links easy in here, and when you do your source stuff you want the stuff between the " body" when you paste into your site. While I have a rudimentary grasp, it works for me. It won't show your snippets except as the #snippet# but don't worry about their placement horizontally.After awhile you will get some html coming from your fingertip as you cut and paste and go "I need a break, or I want that text blue" and you know the code to do that.

Be sure when you cut and paste to be sure if you are pasteing html to do it in the source section.Pasting code into the preview or normal section will not do anything with the code. Good luck, this is a fairly decent program in my limited experience. When you do this and have a working page, copy it to work or notepad so if you screw up you have a working copy saved.

If you write your verbiage in word, copy and save without formatting. ( right click) You will have to put in your hyper links separately, but you can go back to your written page and get the hyperlinks there. Like any of this programming stuff there is there is a learning curve, so make some test pages on your site and play with them. Hide and show to see what there is. Any page on your site can be found by the browsers, even if they are "hidden" so don't put your mistresses or important personal information on them.:P

[VRI]

I've used, and use, both the FCKEditor and Tiny MCE in CMS systems. They're both free.

I'm using FCK on all the new projects as it's much easier to integrate the file/image upload in asp. If you're using php then I think TinyMCE has upgrade to make it simple.

Don't know why you'd be pasting into a cms page instead of integrating the editor though.

[thataway61]

I liked FCKEditor better than Tiny MCE in Joomla. If I recall right, it was because image uploads were much easier to do with it and it seemed like there was a more intutive menu bar or more features.

[ChrisOlsen]

Gregg & VRI,

Thanks for the info, I'll check them out.

My thoughts are to use a wysiwyg to design a page, then copy/paste it into my CMS page, as the CMS wysiwyg capabilities are very limitied, so I can operate more at a 4GL (visual) than a 3GL (programming) level -- not sure if that is the correct way to look at developing HTML pages without learning HTML in detail, but those are my initial thoughts.

Thanks...Chris