If you're just learning how to build a Web page, the more professional editors can be very overwhelming. These Web editors are easy for the beginner to use and make putting up a Web page fun and quick. Plus the best ones have tools to help you learn HTML and Web design as you build your pages. Find the perfect HTML editor for you.
Evrsoft First Page is a nice editor. It offers a lot of the features you expect from a professional Web editing package. It is advertised as completely free, but the free version has significant features (like WYSIWYG) disabled. To get them, you need to pay for the full license. The easiest way to purchase this product is to download Evrsoft First Page and then click on the buy now button.
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.
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.
PageBreeze Professional offers you all the features of PageBreeze Free HTML editor, but with a few extra features. You can purchase the software directly or get it free when you buy FormBreeze form processing for your Web pages. If you know you'll have a lot of Web forms to maintain, this editor could be a very good deal.
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.
HTML Assistant Pro helps you build Web pages with HTML without a lot of extraneous features. There are many assistants to help you learn to write HTML and it has a special QuickFrames tool to help you build frames more easily.
Contribute is a WYSIWYG editor for people who have no interest or need in learning HTML. It can connect directly to a blog to give you powerful editing features or to an existing website to manage the pages there. Contribute works best when working with a site created using Dreamweaver templates. Contribute also provides version control and authoring information that are not included in Dreamweaver.
What you have to remember with Jalbum is that it's not intended to be a full-featured HTML editor. It's an online photo album creator. You can create photo albums and host them on the Jalbum site or on your own site. I created a photo album with about 20 photos in less than 15 minutes. It's very easy to use, and perfect for the newcomer to Web design who just wants to share photos with friends and family.
BlueVoda was recommended to me by customers of the About.com Web Design site. It is a WYSIWYG Web page editor built specifically for the small business who needs to create and maintain a Web site without knowledge of HTML. However, it appears to only connect to VodaHost hosting service. When I requested a copy, I never received a response. While it appears easy to use, I can't recommend this product as I've never been able to try it out.
