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Posted by Michael Laplante on 05/04/06 18:59
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> JDS wrote:
>
>> Try Mozilla Composer. It is FREE. It is a part of the Mozilla suite. I'm
>> talking the full version of Mozilla, not "Firefox". It is really a
>> pretty
>> good WYSIWYG HTML editor -- I don't know why it isn't recommended more
>> often!
>
> ..and NVu as already mentioned is the stand-alone version of the Mozilla
> Composer. NVu might be more beneficial, if the OP does not want to have
> email and chat applications on the kids' computers.
I'd go with Composer first. It's more stable. NVu tends to crap out when
dealing with layers. Also, it has a well known bug that re-formats the code
even if you disable the option. (Might not matter in this instance.)
The old Frontpage Express is still available and is dead easy. It uses a
word processor metaphor. The generated code is out of date but for Grade 1
it doesn't get any easier.
I haven't played around with Open Office much but it also functions as a
wysiwyg editor. However, you have to download the whole office suite which I
think is over 60 Megs.
Also, Abiword for very simple stuff.
Finally, most commercial word processors (Word, WordPerfect) etc can save to
HTML. It ain't pretty HTML but will work. You probably already have access
to some of these programs now. If valid / efficient code is a concern there
are freeware "cleaners" that will clean up Word-to-HTML files afterwards.
You could also the alt.comp.freeware ng for more suggestions.
NVu: http://www.nvu.com/
Composer (Seamonkey) : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ (Less
stable than Mozila version but still works well.)
Composer (Older Mozilla version) :
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
Frontpage Express : You'll have to Google around to find downloads or get an
old copy of Internet Explorer 5.
Open Office : http://www.openoffice.org/
Abiword : http://www.abisource.com/
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