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Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver?

Posted by timothy on from the there-should-be-one-called-vision-quest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I've been looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver, and haven't stumbled upon anything that works the way I need. Aptana and Bluefish are fantastic tools, but I cannot work exclusively with them, since Bluefish doesn't have that WYSIWYG functionality that is so important when you're also dealing with design, and Aptana doesn't have classic ASP support. I don't care much about the classic ASP support, but, even though I'm a PHP developer, I give support to classic ASP code on a daily basis. What open source tools are you guys working with out there? I'm really not looking for a Dreamweaver clone, just a tool that gets closer to cover my needs: WYSIWYG, PHP, HTML, CSS support, and less important, classic ASP support."

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  1. KompoZer by symes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is quite nice, not sure if it meets your ASP needs though

  2. BlueGriffon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    BlueGriffon, developed by the guy who gave us Nvu is well worth a look. It's a free open source WYSIWYG HTML editor.

  3. Re:It's not open source, but here it goes by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Informative

    How can it? In terms of car analogies, the comparison for the GPs answer is:

    Question: "Hey, I need to buy a new vehicle. I need a dealer with a good price, stands behind their warrantees, doesn't have high pressure sales people, and sells Toyotas."
    GPs Answer: "I really like the Subaru Impreza."

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  4. BlueGriffon by PineHall · · Score: 4, Informative

    BlueGriffon is another editor that does HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and MathML. It is also extendable. Not exactly what you are looking for but what you want may not exist. Anyway you might want to check out BlueGriffon too.

  5. Re:notepad++ dude. And an answer... by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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