Are there any free web page development tools out there?

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Anything like frontpage I could download but don’t have to pay for?

Thanks

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Windows—at least 98—came with Fronpage Express, though it wasn’t installed by default.

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If you’re using Win98 its on the install disc. See these instructions.

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Mozilla Composer:

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Thanks everyone.

FYI, I’m using Windows 2000 Professional.

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FWIW, every copy of Windows comes with the best web development tool of them all - Notepad :).

Yes, there was a :slight_smile: there, but it should be a 1/2 :), as I’m only half-joking. I almost never put up a website without running each page at least once through Notepad to tighten the code that WYSIWIG editors put out.

critter42

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Netscape comes with “Communicator” to create and edit web pages. Free, easy to use and the output is a lot less crufty than FrontPage. I don’t know how it compares to the newer Mozilla version linked to above.

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Try download.com search for HTML that place is full of shareware & free programs to do anything.

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Avoid FrontPage (repeat this until it is permanently embedded in your brain.)

Forget Notepad (repeat this until it is permanently embedded in your brain.)

For better Notepad alternatives, try NoteTab or UltraEdit. Both are high quality Text and HTML editors. NoteTab has a free version.

For a quality WYSIWYG HTML editor try 1st Page. It’s free and it puts FrontPage to shame.

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For even better tightening of code, try looking at the free HTML Tidy at http://tidy.sourceforge.net. It’s available for just about every platform (make sure you look at the “Other Ports of Tidy” so you get a GUI version, unless you want a CLI version). Those of you lucky enough to have Mac OS X 10.2 (or higher) can use my version of HTML tidy: http://www.balthisar.com/tidy.

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      • There are lots of free HTML editors, both standalone programs like Coffeecup, and suites like OpenOffice and StarOffice 5. What the free HTML editors usually lack is an integrated FTP client, but you can download FileZilla for free too. Tucows is one place to look.
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A lot of people have Microsoft Word “free” with their computers. If your needs are very basic, you can use it to develop web pages, albeit with very ugly HTML source.

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There is a free HowTo html device at http://insights.iwarp.com that you can cut n paste into a text editor. Save your work as pagename.html and you’re up and running. There are few free shortcuts (9,000 hours of experience tells me).

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Oh, one other thing: best not to click through insights.warp.com online links: potential spam territory.