[jmc]

Hoping folks here have some suggestions. I've been asked to research WYSIWYG web page editors for a project at work. The program must be US-owned and free. It will be added to a ColdFusion based content management system (the one we have now is pretty lame).

I'm looking for one that will produce XML-compliant code, is easy for newbies to use, and has a strong table-building capability, and is relatively bug-free (the two main problems with our current editor)

Any suggestions? I'll be off googling as well, but I'd love to hear both "try this" and "avoid this" suggestions from folks who have experimented with the various available products.

Thanks for your help!

[southernlady]

My suggestion then would be 1st Page 2000 It has the ability to go from Easy mode to Hard core (4 levels so you can pick your starting level and advance as you go. Liz

[jmc]

Thanks. Unfortunately, they want a WYSIWYG editor, not just an HTML editor. I've found a lot of decent HTML editors in my search, stuff I'd be happy to use myself, but this isn't what I've been asked to find. Do you know of any decent WYSIWYG editors? I'm looking at X-Standard, but it's not US owned. Turns out, it doesn't have to be free.

[southernlady]

There was a thread on WebMaster's Talk, another forum covering the same subject and I suggested the same software. http://www.webmaster-talk.com/showthread.php?t=14666 Go look. Liz

[jmc]

I am. Thanks.

[jmc]

The search is harder than I thought. Some good products out there though, but many of them aren't based in the US... I had a thought though. I'm not really familiar with more than the basic idea of a GPL, and what one can or cannot do with open-source software. What I'm trying to find is a capable WYSIWYG web page editor that can be embedded into a browser-based web development form created using ColdFusion (I'm not a programmer - yet - so all I know about CF is that is what they used to develop our this software). We've got one in there now (soLite, I think), but it truly sucks and we're looking for a replacement.

Would it be possible/legal to pull Composer out of the Mozilla package, and use that in the CF app? Just a thought...

[BillC]

The best free WYSIWYG editor around IMHO: WebDwarf .

[CouchMaster]

I also like WebDwarf and used it quite a bit a few years ago. If I remember right it doesn't save in HTML you have to convert it - but once I learned how to do things I moved to a standard HTML editor and uninstalled it.