10 Free WYSIWYG Editor for Making Your Website

So, you want to make a website right away?

Just use a WYSIWYG editor, such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage. WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. You don't even need to learn html anymore. This editor will let you to make a site without html or programming knowledge. But the problem is that netheir Dreamweaver or Frontpage are not free. And it's not cheap either. Dreamweaver price tag is $399. You can check it at adobe's site. But I tell you, it worth the price (I don't mean to promoting dreamweaver here, lol).

So, what if you cannot afford it? What if you want a free and also good WYSIWYG? Here's a list of free WYSIWYG Editor that you can use to make your website. You can choose one that work best for you.

KompoZer - Easy Web Authoring
KompoZer is a WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to build websites in an easy way. It is essentially an updated version of Nvu with bug fixes. You can learn how to create a website using KompoZer with thesitewizard.com's tutorial How to Design and Publish Your Website with KompoZer.

Nvu - Complete Web Authoring System
Nvu is a WYSIWYG editor that is designed to make the creation of web sites as easy for novices as it is using commercial web editors like DreamWeaver. It is based on the Mozilla Composer web editor (see elsewhere on this page) and includes new features that will eventually make its way back into Mozilla Composer. This open source editor is available for Linux and Windows. You can find a tutorial on How to Design and Publish Your Website with Nvu on thesitewizard.com.

SeaMonkey Composer (Mozilla Composer)
Seamonkey, the web browser suite from Mozilla, comes with a WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to quickly code web pages using a wordprocessor-like interface. For more information, please read the detailed review of the Mozilla Composer on thesitewizard.com. You can also find a comprehensive tutorial on How to Design and Publish Your Website with Mozilla Composer there.

Amaya Web Browsing and Authoring
Amaya is an open source browser and WYSIWYG web authoring environment that purports to allow its users to develop web pages without knowing anything about HTML or CSS. You can create your pages, view them, and upload them to your website using this software. It supports CSS (including CSS 2), HTML, XHTML, MathML 2.0 (which allows you to browse and write web pages containing mathematical symbols), etc. There are versions for Windows (a separate one for NT/2000/XP and 95/98/98SE/ME), Linux and Sparc Solaris.

OpenOffice
OpenOffice is the famous free, open source office suite that is an alternative to Microsoft Office. It allows you to write web pages using a word processor like GUI. It comes with a number of website templates that you can start with. It also contains a number of images and sounds in its gallery that you can use in your web pages. However, some people complain that OpenOffice may mess up the HTML code that you add manually.

Selida
Selida is a free WYSIWYG web editor for the Microsoft Windows platform. Although it is free, it is quite professional. Its program startup time is fast. A HTML reference page is available to developers. You can preview your web page in different resolutions. Other features include tag/attribute/value completion, split HTML/preview, error check support, etc.

WebDwarf
WebDwarf is a free WYSIWYG web page editor. You can drag and drop elements into the web page. It supports both HTML and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). You can draw and edit vectors including rectangle, round-corner rectangles, ellipse, pie and polygon. You can add shading (radial or linear) and transparency. Page layout features supported include pixel precision positioning, layout guides with Snap-To Grid or Snap-To Tab operations, rotation, stretching, etc. Only Win32 version is available.

Cross-Browser WYSIWYG Editor
Finally, a free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor that's packed with every rich-text editing feature you need to make your content management system that much better.

JXHTMLEDIT
JXHTMLEDIT is a free Open Source browser-based HTML/XHTML content authoring tool based on the Java 2 Platform that allows WYSIWYG editing on multiple platforms (require the Sun Java^TM Plug-in 1.4 or higher installed on client).

Web Weaver EZ
Web Weaver EZ is a free WYSIWYG Web page editor for Windows. No need to fool around with HTML code to create professional looking Web pages. Web Weaver EZ allows you to create your Web pages without knowing a thing about HTML!

Hope it useful for you!

P.S : If you really serious want to learn web design, I recommend you learn the html language first. Why? Click here or here for the explanation.

P.S#2 :And here's some useful tips if you choose to use a WYSIWYG editor.

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