Will this software work as WYSIWYG for a specifc website

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ionman
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Will this software work as WYSIWYG for a specifc website

Post by ionman »

Iam trying to see if this program will work for this specifc website Iam trying to make some changes too, The Website www.ion4.com is the site, can I simply using this program download from the web edit as I choose and upload to the site, a few questions, I notice when I try to find the landing page or index page from a saved copy of the site on my computer and use the split view I cannot see the page or the preview, can i use this program to edit the pages such as WYSIWYG type of software. Thanks

perhaps if this software is not recommend for this site someone could make a suggestion.
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Re: Will this software work as WYSIWYG for a specifc website

Post by MikeyB »

Hi,

None of the Blumentals eitors are WYSIWYG, they are code editors. You do get a preview window, but it's not editable at all.

But it can connect to your site using FTP and edit the code in the files.
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Post by davenz »

There are dozens of WYSIWYG editors about but most are not that great. If I was to recommend any editors that will do everything you want and have reasonably clean code and are usable, it would be (don't shoot me) Microsoft's Web Expression 3 and Serif WebPlus 4. I know everyone will think WE3 is Frontpage 2010 but it isn't. Surprisingly it is actually very good and almost compliant - if I didn't use WeBuilder, I would use either that or the Serif title, which unfortunately doesn't have the accessible html code support WE3 does. I would use either of these not because I need WYSIWYG - I don't, but they both work very well, especially WE3 in code view - in my opinion. Download the trial versions and see if they blow your hair back; if they do, great, if not, no harm done (except loss of bandwidth).

My $0.02
Dave
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