Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Kompozer Free Web Authoring Tool

Kompozer has a very stable version of their WYSIWYG out. It does not come as an .exe file, it comes as .zip binary file. Just extract the file and your ready to being making your site in HTML,XML,CSS and Java Script. The Kompozer website claims it is "The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users. "


Kompozer has a CSS editor, that allows you to create and manage your style sheets and view them live as you apply them to your page. Things like a mark up validator and spell check will keep you happy as will all the other features from Kompozer.


I noticed a simple looking GUI and tool setup,upon first glimpse I noticed all the important tools that are in Microsoft Frontpage and Adobe Dreamweaver, I don't think its features are as complex as Dreamweavers, but I'm sure it can hang with Microsoft's Frontpage and lame Web Publisher that comes with Office.


Kompozer is version 0.7.10 right now and its free as it probably always will be since it is from The Mozilla Foundation, and as you probably already know they created the popular FireFox and the not so famous Thunderbird that rival Microsofts Outlook. I would recommend giving Kompozer a try but not making it your sole Web Authoring Tool since it is not as featured as Dreamweaver is and differs greatly in layout.



Go to Kompozer.net to take a look.

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