Linux HTML Editor & Website WYSIWYG Editor

Any Linux HTML Editor, Web Site Builder, WYSIWYG Editor for Linux?

Last week I wrote about Mac Website Design Software and Free Web Design Program for Windows. Now it is time for Linux. Are you looking for a good Linux HTML editor, Web page/Website editor or WYSIWYG editor for Linux? If your answer is yes, this page is right for you.

There are several outstanding web design applications available for you to download and use for free as a Linux user. There are both HTML editor and WYSIWYG web editor. You may ask what the differences between these two are. They are both provide you web design solution, you use can them to create a web page or website, edit HTML code and so on. But the main different is that WYSIWYG web editor provides an editing interface which resembles how the page will be displayed in a web browser. And it does not require any HTML knowledge or experience for creating a web page or site. This makes the program simple and easy to use, especially for average computer users. In the following you will find a list of Linux HTML editors and WYSIWYG Web editors.

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List of WYSIWYG Web Editors for Linux

WYSIWYG web editor provides an editing interface which resembles how the page will be displayed in a web browser. And it does not require any HTML knowledge or experience for creating a web page or site. This makes the program simple and easy to use, especially for average computer users.

Software Name	User Rating
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1. KompoZer

(Linux, Mac, Windows)
KompoZer is a WYSIWYG web page program which you can download and use for free of charge. This free web design software developed by KompoZer Community. The program is available for multiple platforms including Windows, Mac OS X an Linux. KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Dreamweaver and other high end programs.

2. Amaya

(Linux, Mac, Windows)
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment. This free web design program allows you to do both browse and author web pages. The software is multiple platforms support including Windows, Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC) and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Mandrake and Suse). With the program, you create web pages and upload them onto a server.

3. SeaMonkey Composer

(Linux, Mac, Windows)
SeaMonkey is all in one internet application suite which includes web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple. For web design software solution, SeaMonkey Composer lets you create your own web pages and publish them on the web. The program do not required you to know HTML to use Composer. You can create your web page easy with word processor interface alike.

4. Quanta Plus

(Linux)
Quanta Plus is a web integrated development environment for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP and any other scripting languages. The program was licensed under GPL. It is available for free to download and use. You can use this web editor for WYSIWYG design and hand coding in Linux platform. Quanta Plus provides various useful features such as tag completion on the fly, tag editing through a dialog interface, auto-completion, live preview, PHP debugger, CVS support, project management and more.

List of Linux HTML Editors

There are several outstanding THML editors available for you to download and use at no cost. Let find out:

Software Name	Platform			License	Developer
	Linux	Mac	Windows
Aptana Studio				Open source	Aptana, Inc.
Komodo Edit				Open source	ActiveState Software
Arachnophilia				Careware	Paul Lutus
jEdit				Open Source	jEdit project
Bluefish				Open Source	Bluefish Dev Team
Quanta Plus				Open Source	KDE Web Dev Team

Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is the leading IDE for Web application development including JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is an open source program which can download and use for free. The program is cross-platform; you can use it whether you are running Windows, Mac or Linux system. With code colorization feature, you can customize syntax highlighting by colorizing various types of code and data types in your editors.

Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit is a free multi-language editor by ActiveState Software. The software supports wide range of program languages including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Tcl and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django. This program provides all necessary standard editing features such as incremental search, reflow paragraph, join lines, code commenting, auto-indent and outdent, block selection, repeat next keystroke and clean line endings and more.

Arachnophilia

Arachnophilia is a free code editor written in Java computer language by Paul Lutus. This program can be used as a webpage development workshop and general programming tool. It is known to be a successor to another HTML editor WebThing. The program supports various languages including HTML PHP, Perl, C++, Java, and JavaScript.

jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer text editor with a large collection of plug-ins by a world-wide developer team. The developer claims that jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use. The program is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0. This editor is written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, UNIX, VMS and Windows operating systems.

Bluefish

Bluefish is a free code editor targeted towards programmers and web designers. The program provides many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. This editor supports many programming and markup languages (C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML and more) and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. The program is available in various operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD and Solaris.

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