My first web page was back around 1994, hand coded, learning HTML by trial and error. In retrospect we had things easy.
That was followed by a number of years of Dreamweaver, a program that worked very, very well for me for some moderately big sites, then later several years of Wordpress based sites because it was fast and easy.
It's time again to upgrade our sites, and what I'm hoping to find is an open-source package that will do what Dreamweaver did, but bring that ease of use into an age of CMS and responsive design. My specific goals are below.
[More after the break.]
Ultimately I guess what I'm looking for is the Holy Grail - a program or application that will let me get something professional up and running fairly fast, then leave lots of room for tweaking and improving any and all aspects of it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Unixnut on Monday December 28 2015, @01:22PM
Many years ago, when I first switched away from the evil empire, I found an alternative to Dreamweaver called "Screem": http://screem.org/ [screem.org]
It is still around, but I don't think it has been updated in a while. It is a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver was, but had somewhat more rational code generation. Basically you could go into the code, and edit it as a human being, then go back to the preview window to see how it looks, and make other changes.
Indeed, it was the software that helped me transition to coding HTML by hand, and weaned me off such editors.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Monday December 28 2015, @03:09PM
The news page on that site is dead, but the copyright is 2005-ish.
Back in the day there was nVu (later called Kompozer).
But I haven't seen, nor used, a WYSIWYG HTML editor in years now.
Open-source versions of Dreamweaver are few and far between, and there's nothing that really approaches HTML5, for instance.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but there's either CMS systems or proprietary things nowadays.