Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there’s any other ones, thanks
Chromium, Firefox… if you open the dev tools, you can edit everything, with it showing in the browser in real-time (WYSIWYG).
Firefox Developer Edition has some extra tools and debugging modes, but some are redundant if you’re using VS Code.
If you’re looking for a Dreamweaver-like thing, where you could drop elements with minimum HTML writing… you may want to check Seamonkey Composer.
For a simple personal website though, I’d recommend using a markdown editor, then either export it through a template, or have a template interpreter on the site, like GitHub Pages.
I’d recommend using a markdown editor, then either export it through a template,
This is what a static site generator does.
(I don’t know why jamstack has taken over that site, but the list itself seems to be intact.)
You can even use Markdown file and convert it dynamically to HTML using javascript through Markdeep by just dropping
<!-- Markdeep: --><style class="fallback">body{visibility:hidden;white-space:pre;font-family:monospace}</style><script src="markdeep.min.js"></script><script src="https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/latest/markdeep.min.js?"></script><script>window.alreadyProcessedMarkdeep||(document.body.style.visibility="visible")</script>at the end of the markdown file. It makes it dead simple to update using a text editor later on and to host on a static website.
Dropping what?
The code block included in my comment
Seems like federation filtered it out, it shows on your instance but not on this one 🤷
I think it’s beehaw doing something weird, it got federated to other instances just fine
I second the idea of finding a way to make your website using markdown and a template, that’s what I do for https://kashifshah.sdf.org
Look into using your browser’s
designModefunctionality. It’s as WYSIWYG as anything can be. It’s great for editing HTML but not very suitable for writing HTML.I think that libreoffice writer can save document as HTML
The trend of wysiwig editing moved onto web services from desktop apps. Those aren’t FOSS. Weebly is good.
jekyll / hugo are the FOSS option imho. There’s also wordpress but I don’t know if it’s open source.
WordPress is definitely open-source lol
I have no one to recommend, but you might find something from this list: https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg-editors
As others recommended, using a web browser to edit is actually pretty cool, especially in Firefox. I myself use Wordpress in the browser instead, which has such a builtin editor.
Have you seen Publii yet? Dunno how well it works on Linux, but there’s a version for Linux as well.
Depending on your situation, you might consider a totally different setup. For example, you could install WordPress or anything vaguely similar to it.
Check out this listing - BlueGriffon might be up your alley, for ease of use, but kompozer used to be the classic replica of Dreamweaver from Windows. Not sure about NetBeans, but it might be good, and can’t speak to the rest.
BlueGriffon has been discontinued in 2019, not sure whether there is a fork.
lol that’s what I get for linking to slashdot.
This isn’t a desktop app, but the editor seems quite solid: GrapesJS
Honestly, Dreamweaver is still pretty good. It’s not as WYSIWYG as like some of the old school front-ends, but it does a pretty good job. If you get some templates and have at least a cursory understanding of xml and css syntax, you’ll do okay.
