I think that I've finally found a true WYSIWYG HTML editor that generates decent XHTML and CSS code to ensure browser compatibility. It can use templates to easily apply similar styles to different web pages, and can save whole sites to disk or publish to the web with a couple of mouse clicks.
There are other editors around that claim to be WYSIWYG, but many are just a front end to HTML text editing, rather than a pure drag and drop layout/publishing editor.
Others have the drag and drop editing, but produce naff results and poor code.
This means that Novelist Supermum should be able to edit and modify her own website, without having to enter into the darkart of HTML and CSS editing (or bothering me to do it for her).
And what is this editor? By a cruel twist, given recent events in our household, it's called Goldfish!
It was originally produced for Mac, but there's a trial Windows Beta version available. Hopefully this will be ready for purchase soon (The Mac version costs just over 20 quid).
We've managed to create a basic template based on the Romance Fiction Website in a couple of hours. We need to spend a little time revamping this template, but once the template is set up the way we like it Goldfish should be a really useful tool.
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Just let me know when you want the new site checking in Safari. Could I use this to Pinp my 26, 27 & Blogger pages?
I certainly will.
It's probably no good at editing existing pages built using another method, since it's aimed at rapid site creation.
I'm reverse-engineering our web pages into it (i.e. starting from scratch and checking out existing colour, layout size, style etc and using Goldfish to recreate the same).
If you're using your Mac, and you've got iweb then I believe that this could have similar functionality to Goldfish.
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