FP - Please recommend your favorite FREE wysiwyg editor

[succor]

@Kay

Hahaha... sorry... thank you for your input. I was not laughing at you I was laughing because I had the exact opposite reaction when I went from FP to DW. Maybe I'm just not as technically adept as others.

I currently use WP also. I like it and it works well for what it was designed for. TWiki, which I use, also falls into this same category of working well for what it was designed for. If you like WP you will probably like Joomla! too. It is much more powerful and flexible; but like I mentioned earlier, with power and flexibility comes complexity. I actually used Joomla! before FP, but currently I only have one page in Joomla! and it is going away as we speak.

I am thinking about using Drupal on an upcoming future project. The learning curve is going to be a total nightmare! But if I can learn it... ah the power!

Anybody else have recommendations for a Free wysiwyg editor?

[succor]

Kay's obviously a lot smarter than I am

I tried Dreamweaver and gave up in frustration.

Once I've done my design and tweaked it in Notepad++ or something else, I stick it in FP and FP doesn't add any code. So I don't see what all the fuss about FP code is... that applies only to the raw newbie who is creating everything from scratch in FP or copy/pasting into FP from a Word doc! But that's not how it works on the 'net. You usually download or commission a design and then create further pages based on that template. Once you've done that FP's tools and facilities are pretty good. Quite awesome, actually. Just avoid using FP specific features and you won't need FP extensions or suffer code bloat.

If you're designing from scratch you can do that in FP as well, but you need to do some of the work in HTML mode to stay safe.

When this forum's php code needs alteration, I do it in FP! You have nothing to fear

Kay is apparently smarter than I am also.

When I use FP I use it exclusively; from start to finish. I used it for years to create and maintain webpages with great success. It does generate bloated code; or at least the versions, older ones, I'm familiar with do so.

When I was talking about using Word as a wysiwyg editor I was using the "Save as" feature to save the pages as html pages; I wasn't importing it into, or opening it with, anything else. It works fine as a wysiwyg editor, it just generates a lot of super-bloated code. I find it faster to just code it in Notepad++ rather than trying to edit the Micro$oft generated code. I tried Word as a wysiwyg editor because I already had Word and therefore it, for all intents and purposes, was free as I didn't have to buy an additional program.

[Clinton]

crabfoot has a related thread on "Sitespinner Pro"

[akirk]

When this forum's php code needs alteration, I do it in FP! You have nothing to fear

aaaaaaggggggghhhhhh

later versions of FP are better....


to the OP - I would use notepad++ / ftp software / and test online...
there is no 100% accurate WYSIWYG editor in existence other than ones using online - because they don't accurately have the server / browser bits...
so AJAX / Javascript / php / eetc. will all fail in your editor...

use a test / build site to build on and upload to the live site when ready...
a very quick way of working

I have twin monitors - dreamweaver on one and the browser on the other - lots of F5

Alasdair

[Matteo]

I use DW for the occasional static site. You could buy an used older version of DW for $25 at Amazon. The code will be outdated but you can do a quick global search and replace for those deprecated tags.

I know someone that was using CoffeeCup and liked it. That is $49.

If you up your budget to "cheap" you will have plenty of choices.