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I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

I hadn't heard of Blue Griffon, so I looked it up and found that it is made by the same guy who made Nvu all those years ago. Nvu hasn't been updated for over 6 years, so as a result the community forked it and it became KompoZer. Now, though, KompoZer hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. The other options don't appear to be faring much better on the release front. It looks like Blue Griffon might be the way to go at the moment.

LWATCDR posted:

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

Good of you to actually address the OP's question. However:

NVU - only useful for sites hosted by the program's vendor.

Quanta Plus - only runs on Linux (DW is a Mac/Windows application).

Amaya - hasn't been updated since 2009, and it's utterly broken in many respects (can't cut-and-paste tables, for instance).

Blue Griffon - shows promise. I haven't used it, so I don't know how well it works, but at least it's currently under development. Otoh, it's still in beta, it's "free to download" - which means they plan to charge some unknown amount for the commercial release version - and it has a bunch of add-ons that are NOT free, and do not appear to be OS.

Visual Web Studio Express - is a Windows application. OP may well be working in a Mac environment. Also, resulting HTML is likely bloatacious and nearly impossible to hand-tune.

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person...
I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement.
NVU http://net2.com/nvu/
Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus
Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/
Hope this helps the original poster.
Oh and if you just want free as in beer.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

It will never be Dreamweaver (I don't think anything free ever will be) but it tries. I will echo above opinion that as great as Dreamweaver is, the html/css that it generates is horrible inefficient, the only worse one i know is Microsoft's WYSIWYG. Once you have done it enough, you can be quite fast as HTML/css from scratch in a text editor. Let us know what you pick and why. http://net2.com/nvu/

...and songbird is the other.

And CeltX and chatzilla and NVU and Cyclone3...

Dude, it's all there for crying out loud! http://www.net2.com/lindows/source

Morons maybe, sleazeballs, perhaps, but selling? No. Lindows.com has, as of yet, not sold a single piece of software to anyone. The Insider program is a subscription type thing, where one of the services is access to internal software releases. The GPL allows internal releases. But hey, this is what happens when you hire a whole team of former MFC developers who've never read the GPL, and nobody with actual Linux experience.
I strongly dislike the renaming stuff; but, if you look in the "Specs" page, you'll see "Derivative of: kinkatta" or whatever, as well as a link to source code.
Finally, http://www.net2.com/lindows/source/. Source is already there.

Looking over Linows' site, I found this link to some source. I'm quite sure it's not all of it, but there is some.

The source can be found right here.

I'm not exactly sure how relevant this is, but I happen to be going through lindows' website, and I found this. Does someone know if what they say here is true??

According to the Lindows Licensing Information page Source code is available for download at http://net2.com/lindows/source/. Of interest is the statements to check the main developer trees for products they use (KDE, Denbian, Wine), as most modification made by Lindows have been accepted and integrated into the main trees.

The dates on the source files are 12 Apr 02, although the downloader is cautioned in two places the Lindows OS software "has not even been released in beta", so the source may not reflect the most current build.