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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 11, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neet-html-authoring-software-that-wont-cost-and-arm-and-a-leg/437162 "2008-02-11T16:48:19Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neet-html-authoring-software-that-wont-cost-and-arm-and-a-leg/437162/1 "2008-02-11T16:48:19Z")
I’m care of a [website](http://www.phattats.net/) for a friend of mine - for his tattoo and piercing business. My fiance’s brother wants me to build a website for his new business installing tankless water-heaters.
I put the first site together with a combination of Netscape Composer and ksh scripts I wrote using Cygwin tools. The hardest part was the generation of the gallery pages, that’s what the scripts did for me. I went back and retrofitted some basic CSS into the tattoo site though I’m sure I could’ve done a better job if I had a better idea of what I was doing.
My brother-in-law-to-be has no idea what he wants yet so it’s probably going to be an annoying iterative process to get info on the page in a way that makes him happy.
I’m trying to be nice about this but nice doesn’t include shelling out $400 for a copy of Dreamweaver. On the other hand, the page-at-a-time editor isn’t really working out either.
What I need is a low-priced but decently featured editor. Something that’ll let me manage a website, not just a web-page. Bonus points for having features that’ll let me build thumbnail galleries linked to full sized pages (see my site above if that clarification).
Any suggestions?
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**Author:**  [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neet-html-authoring-software-that-wont-cost-and-arm-and-a-leg/437162/2 "2008-02-11T17:57:47Z")
How about [Nvu](http://nvudev.com/index.php)?
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**Author:**  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neet-html-authoring-software-that-wont-cost-and-arm-and-a-leg/437162/3 "2008-02-11T19:00:39Z")
I think NVU is a descendant of Netscape Composer, so that ought to make it even better a suggestion. In my limited experience with it, it’s quite adept at importing existing sites and hitting the ground running.
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**Author:**  [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neet-html-authoring-software-that-wont-cost-and-arm-and-a-leg/437162/4 "2008-02-12T03:54:18Z")
You might also try [KompoZer](http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/), another Freebe for Linux and Windows systems.
Bob