I'm sick of having to hand-code my sites to get them to validate. I heard of this one program called topstyle and I suppose it's supposed to let you simply draw your graphics in GUI mode and still have it produce valid html or xhtml .. It's also like 80 bucks .. Anyone know of a free one of these proggies out there? or should I shell out the cash to save me the hand-coding hassle?
Expression Web is a good one but it also costs. NVU is some that some people have recommended as a free WYSIWYG editor.
There is no wysiwyg html/css editor that works well. (Nvu, from reports from people I respect, is the best of a poor lot—and yes, that includes Dreamweaver.) While it is true that they can produce well formed (valid) markup, it is also true that valid markup does not imply well structured or semantic markup. The latter requirements can only be met by using your own knowledge. Even the class names and id names you use should be chosen for their semantic value. Only you can supply meaningful names. I really don't understand your dislike of "hand coding". Any decent text editor will insert the various tags for you at a simple keyboard command, and you have to enter the content anyway. :shrug: gary
Well, I've been hand-coding for years. I'm sure we all have. But for once, I'd love to just creatively draw something with a WYSIWIG and have it automatically validate and produce nicely formed HTML. It was just a nice thought. I'm sure I'll be handcoding for time to come ..
Creativity comes when you design the webpage in Photoshop, or whatever you use. Hand coding is still the only way to make the code be well structured and semantically correct.