May 6, 2008 at 21:1525 best WYSIWYG desktop editors from Smashing Magazine (partial translation)
When it comes to code editors, it's damn hard to get a clear overview of all the benefits and features that different editors can offer. However, in the end you need at least one, so it’s very important to know which editor is best suited to your personal needs.
WYSIWYG editors are often criticized by proponents of “manual” code creation for the bloated, dirty, and non-standards-compliant source code that these editors produce. However, WYSIWYG editors have become much better lately. Some of them are even valid and elegant code.
Sometimes you need to provide your customers with the simplest tools to edit or update their websites. And this is where WYSIWYG editors come in.
We believe that it would be wrong to recommend some of the “best” editors to you, because the choice always depends on your needs, main goals, skills and experience. Therefore, in this article we tried to give you an overview of different, useful and not very WYSIWYG editors.
We hope you find some editors that you have never heard of before .. Or maybe you find some features that you will miss in the current editor or risk experimenting with a number of promising options to improve your workflow. In addition, you can find out what editors you can use and what tools you should not use.
What does WYSIWYG mean?
In such editors, you can directly change not the source code of your documents, but its presentation, which (if possible) will be published in the final document. Thus, instead of writing blocks of code manually (as you, for example, will do this in Word or LaTeX), you control the design using components using the editor window. This means that you see something very similar to the end result, although a document or image is still being created.
Note: this article only reviews desktop-oriented WYSIWYG editors that run on Windows, Linux, or Mac. It does not provide an overview of WYSIWIG JavaScript editors, but you can find an extensive overview of such editors on here or here.
Adobe Dreamweaver (Win / Mac)
Amaya(Win / Mac / Linux)
RapidWeaver (Mac)
Adobe Contribute
Adobe Golive (Win / Mac)
Microsoft Expression (Win)
NVU (Win / Mac / Linux)
KompoZer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Namo WebEditor 2006 (Win)
Evrsoft First Page 2006 (Win)
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Win)
NetObjects Fusion
Quanta Plus (Linux)
Freeway (Mac)
SeaMonkey Composer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Create (Mac)
WYSIWYG Web Builder
Unprofessional, for beginners or small companies
iWeb (Mac)
Sandvox(Mac)
Sitegrinder (Win / Mac)
Studioline Web3 (Win)
Bluevoda (Advertising)
Website X5 (Win)
oXygen (Win / Linux / Mac)
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/06/25-wysiwyg-editors-reviewed
PS
Translation will be tomorrow.
WYSIWYG editors are often criticized by proponents of “manual” code creation for the bloated, dirty, and non-standards-compliant source code that these editors produce. However, WYSIWYG editors have become much better lately. Some of them are even valid and elegant code.
Sometimes you need to provide your customers with the simplest tools to edit or update their websites. And this is where WYSIWYG editors come in.
We believe that it would be wrong to recommend some of the “best” editors to you, because the choice always depends on your needs, main goals, skills and experience. Therefore, in this article we tried to give you an overview of different, useful and not very WYSIWYG editors.
We hope you find some editors that you have never heard of before .. Or maybe you find some features that you will miss in the current editor or risk experimenting with a number of promising options to improve your workflow. In addition, you can find out what editors you can use and what tools you should not use.
What does WYSIWYG mean?
In such editors, you can directly change not the source code of your documents, but its presentation, which (if possible) will be published in the final document. Thus, instead of writing blocks of code manually (as you, for example, will do this in Word or LaTeX), you control the design using components using the editor window. This means that you see something very similar to the end result, although a document or image is still being created.
Note: this article only reviews desktop-oriented WYSIWYG editors that run on Windows, Linux, or Mac. It does not provide an overview of WYSIWIG JavaScript editors, but you can find an extensive overview of such editors on here or here.
Adobe Dreamweaver (Win / Mac)
Amaya(Win / Mac / Linux)
RapidWeaver (Mac)
Adobe Contribute
Adobe Golive (Win / Mac)
Microsoft Expression (Win)
NVU (Win / Mac / Linux)
KompoZer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Namo WebEditor 2006 (Win)
Evrsoft First Page 2006 (Win)
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Win)
NetObjects Fusion
Quanta Plus (Linux)
Freeway (Mac)
SeaMonkey Composer (Win / Mac / Linux)
Create (Mac)
WYSIWYG Web Builder
Unprofessional, for beginners or small companies
iWeb (Mac)
Sandvox(Mac)
Sitegrinder (Win / Mac)
Studioline Web3 (Win)
Bluevoda (Advertising)
Website X5 (Win)
oXygen (Win / Linux / Mac)
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/06/25-wysiwyg-editors-reviewed
PS
Translation will be tomorrow.