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Best free HTML editors

Posted by sudhirmangla May 10, 2009

Most of the new web developers wants to know  "what’s the best free HTML editor." Many professional designers and web developers use an advanced WYSIWYG editor, such as DreamWeaver, but there are free alternative for this expensive product.

Here is our list of best free HTML editors out there.

Aptana Studio :

Aptana Studio is the free, open source Web development environment optimized for use with Ajax libraries and scripting languages like JavaScript, Ruby and PHP. Aptana Studio is considered by many devleopers the best-in-class authoring environment for today’s more rich and interactive Web pages and Ajax applications.

There is also support for Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone, PHP, and Ruby on Rails development, which comes via additional development plugins.

Pros: Complete IDE, many plugins

Cons : Complicated, developer oriented

Homepage : http://www.aptana.com/studio/

Download : http://www.aptana.com/studio/download

Size : 131 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows, Mac, Linux
Free HTML editor

KompoZer :

Kompozer is an open source web development tool built on NVU. The project strives to fix bugs in the NVU project and added new features to it. Both the HTML editor as well as the CSS editor has so far be fixed and updated as part of the Kompozer project – and many more changes are scheduled. Apart from that the main feature set is exactly as in NVU. And one of the most important features is still that editing take place in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode allowing you full control of layout as you work with your web design.

Pros: full featured WYSIWYG editor

Cons : not updated , Last release 2006

Homepage : http://kompozer.net/

Download : http://kompozer.net/download.php

Size : 7.6 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows 98 – Vista
Free HTML editor


Evrsoft First Page 2006 :

First Page 2006 is designed for professional Web development. Create, edit, and deploy Web sites with absolute ease and precision. The integrated tools empower Web developers to develop standards-based Web documents, quickly and easily. The latest version includes hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Full support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI, and Perl. Includes over 1,500 Javascripts/DHTML scripts.

Pros: WYSIWYG editor

Cons : not updated , Last release 2006

Homepage : http://www.evrsoft.com/

Download : http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

Size : 9.1 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows 98 – Vista
Free HTML editor

Evrsoft First Page 2006 :

First Page 2006 is designed for professional Web development. Create, edit, and deploy Web sites with absolute ease and precision. The integrated tools empower Web developers to develop standards-based Web documents, quickly and easily. The latest version includes hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Full support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI, and Perl. Includes over 1,500 Javascripts/DHTML scripts.

Pros: WYSIWYG editor

Cons : not updated , Last release 2006

Homepage : http://www.evrsoft.com/

Download : http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

Size : 9.1 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows 98 – Vista
Free HTML editor

HTML-Kit 292:

HTML-Kit is a full-featured editor and an integrated development environment designed to help HTML, XHTML, XML and script authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish Web pages. Newcomers to web page development can benefit from letting it point out errors and provide suggestions on how to create standards compliant pages. Experts can save time spent on common tasks using the highly customizable and extensible editor while maintaining full control over multiple file types including HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSL, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, JSP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB, C/C++, C#, Delphi / Pascal, Lisp, and SQL. Build 292 supports Vista and adds plug-in manager.

Pros: specialized html editor

Cons : for experienced users

Homepage : http://www.htmlkit.com/

Download : http://www.htmlkit.com/download/

Size : 9.1 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows 98 – Vista
Great community and plugins support.

Amaya :

Amaya HTML Editor is a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. If you also want to manage your MySQL or PostgreSQL database, you can install a database GUI – NAVICAT.

Pros: standards compliance and accessibility

Cons :some areas can be improved

Homepage : http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Download : http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html

Size : 7.1 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS :Windows, Mac, Linux
Free HTML editor

PSPad :

PSPad editor is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, and code explorer. The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (like Visual Basic, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, and Python) and you can further customize the syntax settings.

Pros: programming editor with html syntax highlighting

Cons : not for beginners

Homepage :http://www.pspad.com/

Download :http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php

Size : 3.43 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS :Win95 – Vista
Free HTML editor

Eclipse :

Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around royalty-free technology and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate, and utilize software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and exploiting core integration technology, tool producers can leverage platform reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples.

Pros: Complete IDE, many plugins

Cons :Complicated, developer oriented

Homepage : http://www.eclipse.org/

Download : http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Size : 151 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS :Windows, Mac, Linux

Free HTML editor

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  2. Klint Demetrio on May 11th, 2009 11:02 pm

    Hello,
    There is another editor out there that is free. Besides HTML, it’s also nice for css and php editing. The program also supports other languages as well.

    It’s called
    Notepad + +
    http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

    OS: Windows and even the most current version runs on Win98SE.
    Enjoy the day,
    Klint

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