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For those interested in wysiwyg Garrett recommended a really nice open source
html editor:
"Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "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."
http://www.nvu.com/
"Is Nvu a clone of Microsoft's FrontPage and/or Macromedia's Dreamweaver?
FrontPage and Dreamweaver are popular HTML editors for MS Windows. These
programs have become popular because they make web design extremely easy, even
for non-technical people. Nvu is not an exact clone of either of these
products, but it does contain many of the same easy-to-use features which makes
these programs so popular. Users familiar with either of these two products
will feel right at home using Nvu."
I've played around with it for several days and:
1) It is intutive.
2) It doesn't crash!
3) Nice clean interface.
4) No real help files, but it doesn't really need help files.
5) It beats the socks off Amaya.
I'm working on trying out Blink now.
It will be several days before I get time to really play with it.
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The vote really needs the comments and viewpoints of people who use wysiwyg
editors. I wouldn't call what I've done much more than taking a good look and
playing around with it some. Being open source, it might change over time for
the worse, unless a copy of the current version is kept. I really like it from
what I have seen though.
If there is no real interest in wysiwyg it might be best to drop the category? I
feel Nvu rocks, but someone else thought the same about Amaya last year.
This might be true for other categories as well? If there is a lack of interest
and informed input in a certain category might it be best that the category is
left out for 2005, rather than offering up something that might not really be
priceless?
The entire list is dependant on the input of the readers, so now is a great time
to start playing around with different apps in whatever category is of interest.
If wysiwyg is of personal interest Nvu is a great app to start playing with and
Blink also. If there are other wysiwyg suggestions list them out and we'll give
them a spin.
html editor:
"Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "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."
http://www.nvu.com/
"Is Nvu a clone of Microsoft's FrontPage and/or Macromedia's Dreamweaver?
FrontPage and Dreamweaver are popular HTML editors for MS Windows. These
programs have become popular because they make web design extremely easy, even
for non-technical people. Nvu is not an exact clone of either of these
products, but it does contain many of the same easy-to-use features which makes
these programs so popular. Users familiar with either of these two products
will feel right at home using Nvu."
I've played around with it for several days and:
1) It is intutive.
2) It doesn't crash!
3) Nice clean interface.
4) No real help files, but it doesn't really need help files.
5) It beats the socks off Amaya.
I'm working on trying out Blink now.
It will be several days before I get time to really play with it.
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The vote really needs the comments and viewpoints of people who use wysiwyg
editors. I wouldn't call what I've done much more than taking a good look and
playing around with it some. Being open source, it might change over time for
the worse, unless a copy of the current version is kept. I really like it from
what I have seen though.
If there is no real interest in wysiwyg it might be best to drop the category? I
feel Nvu rocks, but someone else thought the same about Amaya last year.
This might be true for other categories as well? If there is a lack of interest
and informed input in a certain category might it be best that the category is
left out for 2005, rather than offering up something that might not really be
priceless?
The entire list is dependant on the input of the readers, so now is a great time
to start playing around with different apps in whatever category is of interest.
If wysiwyg is of personal interest Nvu is a great app to start playing with and
Blink also. If there are other wysiwyg suggestions list them out and we'll give
them a spin.