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Hi Richard, If you mean a WYSIWIG editor, your choices are basically Macromedia Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive. Macworld has reviewed them both recently. Dreamweaver gets far better comments, but there are trial versions available for both of them. As both are not quite cheap, I suggest you try both out.

You might also take into consideration what image editing program you use. Dreamweaver plays better with Fireworks and GoLive plays better with Photoshop/ImageReady. I prefer the Dreamweaver/Fireworks combination, but that's a personal preference only.

There is not really one significant thing you can only do in only one of them. I never liked the GoLive interface. I prefer Contribute/DreamWeaver/Fireworks. I built a page in a short amount of time with them. Www.macweaver.com Check it out, it's simple. I'm totally new to building sites too. I can't help noticing from your page that a top of line package like Dreamweaver didn't manage to make this site without leaving in 7 HTML validation errors, a page full of CSS warnings, plus it used tables for non-tabular data.

It also generates a horizontal scroll bar if you view the result in a narrow window, or enlarge your font size. I was hoping for something that actually did a little better than that, especially in its CSS support.

Speaking for which, although it has used inline styles, it may just as well have been doing deprecated HTML, since it has turned the CSS into tag soup. Does anyone happen to know of some Macintosh web design software that produces valid html and css, and gives reasonably clean code without resorting to tag soup? Surely there is something acceptable out there?

BBEdit I was under the impression that BBEdit was an excellent HTML editor, for people who already understood how to write raw HTML, rather than a web design package. There seem to be a fair number of HTML editors for the Mac.

I downloaded around 30 HTML editors to try out. I'm gradually adding notes to my blog about why I am rejecting each (basically I can't point a business at these editors and expect them to rough out their page using such an editor). However web design programs seem rather less common. I was under the impression that BBEdit was an excellent HTML editor, for people who already understood how to write raw HTML, rather than a web design package.Correct. One that I don't believe has been pointed out is. Again however, there is a possible catch in that it is template based. To make a true WYSIWYG editor that produces half decent code is a hard task.

It is best to remember this is the purpose of such applications. If you are looking for something to point a business to as a means of roughing out their pages, a layout programme would be much better suited.k. One that I don't believe has been pointed out is RapidWeaver.

I just did a little playing with RapidWeaver (only one page so this isn't a real test). Seems pretty good about telling you how to modify their themes, finetune their code, and so on. Plus unlike Dreamweaver, the Rapid Weaver code does validate, and isn't as much of a tag soup mess. I don't think it is close enough to do what I want as yet, but the price is right, and it would be worth keeping an eye on how it goes. I will make a bunch of pages when I get a chance, plus a test theme more along the lines I want, and see just how far I can force it. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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Thanks for your reply. Hopefully my last question, I use Windows 7 and the Frontpage 2003 version I have seen says it works with Windows XP/2000. Will it work with Windows 7? Check in with the Expression Web forum I referenced above for the answer.

It is a FAQ and most of those experts used to run FrontPage. But, I think you are missing the point. MSFT moved away from FrontPage because it does not produce standards compliant code. Yes, it may be easy to work with but if the web site code is so bad that it does not enjoy good cross browser compatibility, then it is a waste of your time to rebuild it with FP.

Unless you already own FP, don't waste your money buying a new copy. Invest some time researching alternatives that produce standards compliant code and use them instead.