Claris or WYSIWYG editors

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[Dragonfly]

Greetings all
I have a small personal website (ok, its a free one with my broadband subscription) and currently use a 30 day trial of Claris HomePage v3 to design and maintain it. The problem is that I have to keep re-installing the software as it expires and it is not the full version. Are there any other WYSIWYG web editors out there that are as simple to use as Claris, or is there anyone who would be willing to give me a full copy of Claris? Please?
I use Windows 98 for stability (but only for website design) which makes it slightly harder to find compatible software nowadays!, but prefer to use OS/2 for internet access as it is more secure. Mozilla's Composer does not leave URL's as relative and it takes forever to bug fix by digging out all the dodgy HTML code it produces.
Can anyone help me?

[txbakers]

Hi welcome to the WEbmaster World boards.

First, I must warn you about posting something about "or is there anyone who would be willing to give me a full copy of Claris". That smacks of software piracy and it's a major no-no here. Most of our members make their living designing software and don't want to hear about piracy in any form.

That said, there are a number of free or near-free WYWIWYG editors available such as HTML-Kit.

I started learning with Dreamweaver many moons ago, but now only code by hand using a simple text editor. Once you start that way, you'll never open a WYSIAWYG editor again. I can't even wait long enough for the program to load, let alone try to work around all the quirks.

Those programs are a great way to start learning and make some nifty pages real fast. But after while they become a hinderance and a crutch. And you can't run with crutches.

[jbinbpt]

The W3C has a free tool called Amaya [w3.org]. It's open source. It's designed by the teams that develop the web standards. I have a win95 workstation that I have it installed on.
I also have HTML-KIT installed which I'm playing with.

I found that there is more documentation with Amaya than with HTML-KIT.

Check them both out.. You cannot beat the price..

jb

[Dragonfly]

Thank you for the warning about software piracy, but as Claris is 'defunct' ie not supported as the company that made it does not exist anymore, I thought it might be worth asking if anyone had a copy that they were not using anymore. I do not have time to learn HTML coding and CSS and no doubt by the time I do learn them, we will all be using blah or something else.
I shall just resign myself to re-installing the software I have on the defunct operating system I use and forget all about high hopes and fancy dreams.
Any of those web editors support frames?

[robert adams]

composer does have the problem with relative paths, but it is not hard to go in and edit them out with a text editor. the tick is to do that just before you upload the page. If you open it in composer again, it puts them right back.
you could try 1st page , it is free, easy to use. It is not completely wysiwyg, but close.

Any one of the editors is frames compatible, but a lot of people don't like pages in frames and neither do the search engines.

luck and joy,
robert