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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 22, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767 "2006-06-22T20:04:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:**  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/1 "2006-06-22T20:04:19Z")
Thing #1: It’s gotta be “universal” to run on Intel / Tiger.
Thing #2: It’s gotta be cheap.
Thing #3: I’m not using .Mac, so iWeb isn’t terribly useful.
What I’m after is something that can handle the creation and maintenance of a simple site. On a PC, I was using Dreamweaver, but it was generally severe overkill for what I was doing. But its site management tool was nice in that it would easily push whatever had been changed to the server with minimal human intervention, so that’s a must-have.
Cheap is good, free is better. I’m not doing anything fancy like PHP, server includes, Flash or even animated GIFs if I can help it.
So what’s out there that’s good? The last time I went to the local computer hut, I was scared off by stuff costing $300 or more. How about closer to $30?
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**Author:**  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/2 "2006-06-22T21:17:30Z")
[http://pages.google.com/](http://pages.google.com/) ?
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**Author:**  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/3 "2006-06-22T21:51:24Z")
Interesting idea, but I’ve already got server space and domains, and it looks like Google Pages is a closed-end scheme that doesn’t produce HTML files that can be published elsewhere.
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**Author:**  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/4 "2006-06-22T23:50:17Z")
Not sure if it does everything you need, but [Nvu](http://www.nvu.com/index.php) is a free program with WYSIWYG and code editing capabilities, and has a Mac version. I have it installed on my computer, and while i haven’t used it too often it seems to be pretty good value for money. 🙂
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**Author:**  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/5 "2006-06-23T19:48:55Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> Thing #1: It’s gotta be “universal” to run on Intel / Tiger.
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> Thing #2: It’s gotta be cheap.
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> Thing #3: I’m not using .Mac, so iWeb isn’t terribly useful.
iWeb has a “publish to folder” command that exports sites as stand-alone HTML and images, so you don’t need .Mac to use it.
I prefer to build web sites by hand, but I hear [Sandvox](http://www.karelia.com/) is pretty good if you want lots of hand-holding for your sites. The price is $50 for a “home” license, which is only a skoosh higher than your $30 price point.
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**Author:**  [@Joools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joools)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/6 "2006-06-24T07:18:09Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> Thing #1: It’s gotta be “universal” to run on Intel / Tiger.
A nitpick, I know, but a program doesn’t need to be universal to run on Intel/Tiger. Rosetta, the PowerPC emulation in Tiger, should be able to handle any text editor you throw at it.
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**Author:**  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-website-html-editor-app-for-mac/361767/7 "2006-06-25T03:03:59Z")
> **[iWeb 1.1 and the Competition, Revisited - TidBITS](https://tidbits.com/2006/06/19/iweb-1-1-and-the-competition-revisited/?tbart=08565)**
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> Last week's article, "iWeb 1.1 Takes on the Competition", apparently hit a nerve with TidBITS readers. Not only did I receive a number of email messages from readers who told me about their favorite easy-to-use Web page editing applications, but a...
In addition to ones already mentioned
- Rapidweaver is what I use
- Freeway Express
- Goldfish
- Pagespinner