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Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver?

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. 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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