Good Web Editing Software

cdnfthree2

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Wondering if anyone has used any good webediting software lately that doesn't require much html knowledge. I designed my business site in Nvu and and the published site had to be pulled due to the fact that it looked like hammered @$#% when the convesion was made from xhtml to html i guess. Preview in the editor looked great but the atual site in the explorer window didn't Fonts were wrong sizes and colors, Text was mis spaced, mis indented, etc.. I was enjoying feeling like I was doing it myself and sving bucks but now I'm frustrated. Any good software out there?
 
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Re: Good Web Editing Software

I use Macromedia Dreamweaver. I've had good results with it with fairly minimal headaches.
 

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The closest thing I know of is Dreamweaver. I wouldn't call it easy to use though. It is a professional tool. Even when I use it I still have to hand code certain things to make them work right.

IMHO, for a business, hand off what you have to a web developer. A good one will be able to offer you a lot more than just making it look how you intended.
 

cdnfthree2

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Well, I got creative and pasted correctly sized and structured material in from words and it seems to have done ok. Thanks for the help
 

South_Bound

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As mentioned dreamweaver is your best bet. If you need any help they have great forums as well.
 

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I use MS FrontPage 2002 to edit my Rotary Club's website. It's included with some versions of MS Office. It works pretty well but not perfectly since the site was designed by a pro using something more high-end. Probably Dreamweaver.
 

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I use MS FrontPage 2002 to edit my Rotary Club's website. It's included with some versions of MS Office. It works pretty well but not perfectly since the site was designed by a pro using something more high-end. Probably Dreamweaver.

Front page has always had issues working with more complicated projects. I started with frontpage in 1996 and quickly learned it deficiencies and moved on to something else. My son just had to do a html project for school using Frontpage, and I found that in 12 years nothing has changed it still has a ton of issues.
 

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Re: Good Web Editing Software

Wondering if anyone has used any good webediting software lately that doesn't require much html knowledge. I designed my business site in Nvu and and the published site had to be pulled due to the fact that it looked like hammered @$#% when the convesion was made from xhtml to html i guess. Preview in the editor looked great but the atual site in the explorer window didn't Fonts were wrong sizes and colors, Text was mis spaced, mis indented, etc.. I was enjoying feeling like I was doing it myself and sving bucks but now I'm frustrated. Any good software out there?

Whatever you do, test it out in ie & firefox before you go live with it. Your customers won't be using dreamweaver, etc. to view the site... :)

I think XP ships with IIS, so you can setup a website on your computer. As a caution, you could setup a firewall to keep people from outside your network from getting to your website.

If you aren't getting fancy, you could use "bear skins and stone knives" - MS word can be used to create the initial web pages that you want. Then go in and manually fix things up. Again, this is for simple websites... As in the most fancy thing you are doing is to have a 'send email' button, with pretty much static content only. If you are putting dynamic content in, or taking orders, etc. then you want an actual development tool.
 

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Re: Good Web Editing Software

While it's more sophisticated than simple html editing, you can get a free copy of Microsoft Visual Web Developer here: http://www.asp.net/downloads/essential/

It's primary use is to develop asp.net pages, but works just fine for basic html.

There's lots of on-line video tutorials here: http://www.asp.net/learn/

If you really want something really basic, you can always one of the MS office products (Word, Excel, etc.) to create a document and "save as html"

Good Luck!
...Jerry
 
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