Web Development: Nvu and KompoZer

Although Adobe Macromedia Dreamweaver would be the choice of most web developers, it's costly. If you're searching for an open-source solution, You might consider Nvu or Komposer. Nvu is a WYSIWYG web editor that was designed to be easy to use and does not require extensive knowledge of html or CSS to use.

Go to Nvu to download the software.

To learn the basics; get started with Nvu go to Nvu Support.

Be sure to check out the Nvu User Guide, Quick Start, Style and Stylesheets.

Nvu Tutorials

How to Design and Publish Your Website with Nvu by Christopher Heng
Nvu Video Tutorials

Nvu and CSS

One of the weaknesses with Nvu is the way that CSS coding is handled.

How to Work with CSS in Nvu - Takes you through the process of creating CSS in NVU.

KompoZer

More recently, KompoZer has joined the open source ranks for web authoring and editing. Based on Nvu, KompoZer is essentially Nvu with the known bugs in that editor fixed. It is available for he Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computing platforms.

Online Help for KompoZer

How to Design and Publish Your Website with KompoZer by Christopher Heng. Beginning here, you can work your way through a series of ten online tutorials.

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