Free WYSIWYG Web Editors for Windows

KompoZer is a good WYSIWYG editor. It is based on the popular Nvu editor - only it is called an "unofficial bug-fix release." KompoZer was conceived by some people who really liked Nvu, but were fed up with the slow release schedules and poor support. So they took it over and released a less buggy version of the software. Ironically, there hasn't been a new release of KompoZer in over a year.

Nvu is a good WYSIWYG editor. I prefer text editors to WYSIWYG editors, but if you don't, then Nvu is a great choice, especially considering that it's free. I love that it has a site manager to allow you to review the sites that you're building. It's surprising that this software is free. Feature highlights: XML support, advanced CSS support, full site management, built-in validator, and international support as well as WYSIWYG and color coded XHTML editing.

SeaMonkey is the Mozilla project all-in-one Internet application suite. It includes a Web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and composer - the Web page editor. One of the nice things about using SeaMonkey is that you have the browser built-in already so testing is a breeze. Plus it's a free WYSIWYG editor with an embedded FTP to publish your Web pages.

Selida is a very nice WYSIWYG Web page editor for Windows. It offers a lot of features that make it easy to edit Web pages and is free. It is a fine editor for professional Web Designers.

Amaya is the W3C Web editor. It also acts as a Web browser. It validates the HTML as you build your page, and since you can see the tree structure of your Web documents, it can be very useful for learning to understand the DOM and how your documents look in the document tree. It has a lot of features that most Web designers won't ever use, but if you're worried about standards and you want to be 100% sure that your pages work with the W3C standards, this is a great editor to use.

Trellian WebPage is one of the few free Web editors that offers both WYSIWYG functionality and image editing within the software. It also allows you to use Photoshop plugins to customize it even more.

PageBreeze Free HTML editor is a WYSIWYG editor that makes it easy to edit your Web pages. You can switch between WYSIWYG and source mode to check your HTML. And because it's made by FormBreeze.com you get the form integration right in the software so that your forms will work without any scripting or mailto problems.

The free version of Dynamic HTML Editor is a few revisions back from the paid version and it's only free for non-profits and personal use. But if that is you, and you don't want to learn more than file transfers for getting your Web pages to your host, then this program would work fine. It has some graphics editing and is easy to drag and drop the elements around on the page.

XStandard is an XHTML editor that is embedded into the Web page itself. This is not exactly an editor for everyone, but if you need to allow people who visit your sites the opportunity to edit XHTML and you need valid XHTML and CSS, this is a good solution. The Lite version can be used commercially for free, but doesn't include features like spell-checking, customization, and extensibility. This is a good tool for Web designers who include CMS so their clients can maintain the sites themselves.

Yahoo! SiteBuilder is a tool to allow customers of the Yahoo! websites 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. But this tool is perfect for the small business owner who n