Free alternative to Microsoft FrontPage??

cpp · Post by **cpp** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:09 am

I want to write html help for my apps, (ibe used text docs till now), but i know exactly $#!

Vexator · Post by **Vexator** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:15 am

notepad.
html/css are really not hard to learn (come on, you're a c++ programmer) and this way you can create far more efficient code than any commercial wysiwyg editor can do.

Post by **T-Rex** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:29 am

Maybe Nvu, which is based on Gecko engine will help you? It seems to be free and its installer is not very huge ~7MB

toxicBunny · Post by **toxicBunny** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:05 pm

If you're planning to use the wxHTML help classes, simpler is most likely better since it doesn't implement as many features as IE or Firefox. I quit using Front Page because it inserts a lot of extra junk that I didn't need or want. It makes it more difficult to later edit the file by hand if necessary.

I generally use SciTE to edit HTML, XML, and most other text files. It's based on the Scintilla editor, so it has syntax coloring that notepad does not.

If you're really interested in WYSIWYG editing, have you looked at Amaya?

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html

I tried it a while back and it looked promising. Still a few bugs at the time, but it's under development. Also, I think it was written with wxWidgets if I'm not mistaken...

-Scott

cpp · Post by **cpp** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:53 pm

Thanks for your answers, i been reading the sites for both nvu and amaya, and i came across another alternative, the "Composer" part of the mozilla package, has anyone used it? it is also a WYSIWYG tool right?

buildere · Post by **buildere** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:56 pm

I'm using this one on a project:

http://www.fckeditor.net/

Very nice for sites that need content admin modules.

Dandel1984 · Post by **Dandel1984** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:10 pm

i know of a few, what are the requirements you have, because i know that the following work for the task...

Open office: http://www.openoffice.org/

Mozilla inline editor... http://mozile.mozdev.org/
Tiny MCE... http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

priyank_bolia · Post by **priyank_bolia** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:14 am

Php Expert editor for Php, it has 2 month free trial.
In fact edit Plus is also good and there is PHP Designer 2006 free.

Post by **upCASE** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:36 am

I'm quite happy with Phase5 for most editing (http://www.qhaut.de/forums/index.php?act=home). Unfortunatly it seems to be german only.

lowjoel · Post by **lowjoel** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:43 am

Lol, I know this is COMPLETELY out of point, but I think Dreamweaver is good (I used it for my site, Joel's Place, anf the wxDev-C++ site) Otherwise Notepad++ is good (Ben uses it for C++ Python Java Perl PHP... i think they have a syntax highlighter for HTML/CSS as well.

Post by **upCASE** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:48 am

Dreamweaver - "I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?"
Geez, I'm feeling funny today...

priyank_bolia · Post by **priyank_bolia** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:19 am

Dreamweaver is good but bulky and $$$. What most people needs is just edit plus or php expert editor.

lowjoel · Post by **lowjoel** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:07 am

this is where we shall differ in opinion

cpp · Post by **cpp** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:14 am

Thanks for your sugestions guys, ibe tried most of them, and i decided to go with Nvu. Its very lightweight, fast, and extremely easy to use, it doesnt have all the bells & wistles of others, but then again im only using it to write documentation for my apps, so i dont need much.
The only thing that "bothers" me about Nvu is that it seems to be un-mantained, the "latest" release is about ayear old!.

thanks guys

phlox81 · Post by **phlox81** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:49 am

For PHP I use Maguma studio (www.Maguma.com)
But thats no Wysiwg Editor.