Re: Web Page Editor

["Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 droege@snapmail.us wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a wysiwyg Web Page Creator?  I have been using
> Microsoft Publisher because I am familiar with it.  However when I work
> hard to make a nice format it comes out completely different on the web.

Tom, Netscape Composer works fine.  Its simple, clean, fast, easy to
learn (almost all of the commands you need are displayed in the
headers).  I use the older version (Netscape 4.79 and earlier) but
I believe that the same functionality is built into Mozilla (though
Mozilla is somewhat larger and slower but it shouldn't be noticed
on most of the systems you run I expect.)

What you see in composer is pretty much what you get when you
display the page in a browser (note that there are subtle variations
in how the various browsers choose to display pages but these aren't
too significant IMO.)

Composer isn't for creating complex pages -- its for basic text
oriented pages.  It isn't as fancy as something like PDF or TEX
documents (for technical materials) but it is great at getting
simple jobs done.

Robert