Kicking the Dog.

[gridlore]

Can anyone recommend a good free or shareware WYSIWYG HTML editor that isn't HotDog? That damn thing just crashed the computer for the third time this morning. It seems to think that it owns every single corner of memory, and refuse to make the changes I want.

I know, I could just edit the code in notepad, but I need to see what I'm doing as I go along. I've got some plans for my Traveller pages along with some vastly overdue updates of my personal pages. (None of them are online right now. When I changed from gridlore to penguin_boy, the directories vanished.)

Too frustrated to try again, so I'm going for a walk, then play Nethack while not staring at the phone.

Comments

[jilesa.livejournal.com]

You might try Arachnophilia (http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/). I'm not crazy about the latest version since they went to a java-based client, but it's not bad.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

On a Windows PC? I'd have to recommend FirstPage 2000 (http://www.evrsoft.com) - selling points: built-in HTMLTidy for standardy goodness, and it can do a cracking job of de-munging Word's excuse for HTML (both of these are sufficiently good selling points that I download and install it (after checking company policy on such things, natch) when working (oh, happy high and far-off times) at client sites). Comes with a wheen of scripty goodies, too: although one of them (which you neither need to load nor use) is the "Javascript Alertbox from Hell" (http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/av/six_buttons_from_hell.php) trick - some antivirus programs will tel you this is a virus, but provided you don't use it, you're fine (and no, I don't know why they included it, unless it was a condition of using the library that they included the whole shebang - just delete the file that it's in, and you'll be right).

Still no sign of version 3.0, though, and there'd been a bunch of comments in their discussion forum (http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/index.php) from people pissed off that it wasn't Homesite or Dreamweaver, but for free it's pretty damn' good.

Shareware, there's TextPad (http://www.textpad.com), of course, and no doubt there'll be a bunch more recommendations - almost every single free or shareware HTML editor has its own unique selling point: me, I miss the site map facility in the old AOLPress.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I downloaded this one (and told Norton to go to hell about the Java package) So far, I'm impressed! Thanks for the tip.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service! Hope it continues to be useful.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I like UltraEdit -- relatively inexpensive. Not WYSIWYG, but single-click to display in browser.

[blackfyr.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend starting any software search for Mac or PC at VersionTracker (http://www.versiontracker.com/).

netscape

[murbin.livejournal.com]

I use the WYSIWYG html editor that comes with Netscape.
It's pretty simple to use and the price right.