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Windows Web Editing Suites

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

Sometimes all you want is one program or group of integrated programs to do your Web design and development work. These Web suites combine the basic necessities of Web design - HTML and graphics editing. If you buy or download one of these packages you'll have all you need to maintain a Web site including the graphics.

11. NetOjbects Fusion

Fusion is a very powerful HTML editor. It combines all the tasks you need to get your Web site up and running including development, design, and FTP. Plus you can add special features to your pages like captchas on forms and ecommerce support.

12. CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor

The CoffeeCup Free HTML editor is a text editor with a lot of potential. A lot of the features it has in the menus are reliant on other CoffeeCup products to use - such as FTP, the photo gallery maker, CSS editing, and so on. This is still a powerful HTML editor, but I would recommend you purchase the full version of the editor to get the real juice from this product. One important thing to note: many sites list this editor as a free WYSIWYG editor, but when I tested, you had to buy the full version to get WYSIWYG support. The free version is a very nice text editor only.

13. Dynamic HTML Editor Free

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.

14. Trellian WebPage

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.

15. WYSIWYG Web Builder

WYSIWYG Web Builder makes it easy to build a Web page without knowing any HTML. It is a WYSIWYG-only editor with no access (that I could see) to the HTML code. But it supports nearly every HTML element I could think of and comes with an image editor and a lot of buttons and widgets.

16. WebPlus 10

WebPlus 10 is a Web site editor that is perfect for the small business owner who doesn't have time to learn HTML or Web design. There are hundreds of pre-built templates, fonts, and icons included. This is not a good design choice for a Web designer or someone who wants to become one. While you can edit HTML in this tool, it isn't easy to do. And while you can import your site into the tool, it changes the HTML on import which can make things look odd.

17. Website X5 Evolution

Website X5 Evolution looks like a very interesting package for individuals and small business who don't want to learn HTML or Web design, they just want to put up a Web site. The documentation states that it will deliver XHTML 1.0 strict Web sites using CSS. It has features like a graphics editor, flash animation included, 500 pre-installed templates, RSS support, email forms, an ecommerce solution, and even password protected areas. Prices on the site are in Euros.

18. Dynamic HTML Editor

Dynamic HTML Editor is a WYSIWYG editor that is fairly easy to use for basic tasks. You click on what you want to add into your page, then draw it onto the page. This tool has built-in graphics editing that can be applied to specific parts of the page as well as images. It's a good program for people who don't want to learn HTML and need a graphic intensive Web site.

19. Contribute

Contribute is a WYSIWYG editor that is intended to work in tandem with Dreamweaver. While it is possible to create and maintain a Web site with Contribute, there are some features noticeably missing, like spell check and forms. It is a good editor for clients who want some control over the content of their pages, but don't want to handle the design and programming aspects.

20. Web Studio 4.0 Deluxe

Web Studio 4.0 is trying to answer the challenge of Web design tools that tools like Word have provided. Namely, the idea that you should be able to build a Web page by simply dragging the images or multimedia elements that you want onto your document and then typing text around them. Web Studio 4.0 does a good job at this - by making the creation of a Web page easy to understand, by removing all direct access to it from the user.

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