Open Source HTML Editor

[knowman]

Anyone have any suggestions for a WYSIWYG Open Source HTML Editor? Given most of our users are not using any of Dreamweaver's advanced features our company is looking at switching to one as a possible opportunity to save some money.

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[pantharos]

It's not open source, but it's cheaper than dreamweaver and made to work in concert with it. Adobe Contribute is not only a WYSIWYG editor, but it also does the edits right on the server, no local copies. It's designed to allow an administrator using dreamweaver to define editable areas and then contribute users can go in and edit content in those areas. Using a check in/out feature it allows multiple content editors to have access to the same areas without tripping over one another.

[knowman]

I read about Contribute, and it seems impressive, but not particularly applicable to our needs in this case. The account reps who are creating the individual account newsletters do so independently of any central administrator and send them out via email.
Although the software is on my list to learn more about next year as a potential way to expand the content for our Knowledgebase without requiring our Subject Matter Experts to learn coding.
I appreciate the suggestion though.

You could try this

[kylos101]

http://net2.com/nvu/

I'll try installing it on my virtual XP box and see how it runs.

Re: You could try this

[knowman]

Kompozer, which is a version of Nvu, is on my current list of potential software. Have you had any experience with Nvu? My father was using Kompozer for a while and indicated it crashed on him regularly. But I'm still likely going to be checking into each of the software packages, I'm just trying to find people who've used them to get some basic feedback about usability.