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Free WYSIWYG Web Editors for Windows

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

Free WYSIWYG Web editors are often seen as the best kind. They offer flexibility and power without a large outlay of cash. But beware, if you're looking for more features and flexibility, there are many reasonably priced WYSIWYG HTML editors available.

11. Netscape Composer

Netscape Composer is a simple little Web page editor that comes included with Netscape. There isn't a lot to recommend it other than that it's free and is built-in to your Web browser. Feature highlights: WYSIWYG XHTML editing.

12. Microsoft Visual Studio Express

Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a way to create a simple Web page really quickly. There are several starter kits to choose from, and with the built in templates and wizards it's really easy to do.

13. Yahoo! SiteBuilder

Yahoo! SIteBuilder is a tool to allow customers of the Yahoo! Web sites to easily build and maintain their Web stores. It's very easy to use, with a lot of pre-built templates that can generate a site in minutes. There is no access to the HTML in this tool and it can only connect to the Yahoo! sites.

14. WebDwarf

WebDwarf makes it easy for you to create and maintain Web sites without knowing any HTML. It includes FTP to publish your pages and even an image editor to maintain your images.

15. Angel Writer

Angel Writer is not really a Web editor, it's an RTF text editor that can save documents as HTML. It doesn't write valid XHTML and it adds a lot of attributes and tags that have been replaced by style sheets. It did put some styles in, but not where I expected it to. If you're looking for a free Web page editor, there are many others that offer better functionality. For example, when you save a document as HTML it puts the file name and path in as the title - and I couldn't figure out how to change it in the program. This is a fine text editor, but not a great Web editor.

16. Web Weaver EZ

Web Weaver EZ is a very limited free version of the inexpensive Web Weaver EZ Plus. If you're thinking about getting EZ Plus, then download this first to try it out. If you like it, you should consider spending the ~$15 for the upgrade, so that you can get features like tables, forms and JavaScript.

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