What are some recommended Free software tools for making websites?

For a simple website, there is KompoZer: http://kompozer.net

Personally I use... Emacs. :-)

On 07/31/2011 10:24 AM, name at domain wrote:
> I've just been looking around and the two that caught my attention are:
>
> Bluefish http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html
>
> And BlueGriffon http://bluegriffon.org/
>
> Anyone familiar with either of these? Which is best? Are there other
> programs out there worth checking out?
>
Quanta Plus is my favorite.

Maqetta looks interesting: .

I used to work in bluefish, but am slowly switching to simply kate. Kate is better, because it has all the functions I need (switching between many different files in one session, syntax highlighting for HTML and CSS) and starts faster than bluefish even in gnome. That's for the test editor.

If you want to make dynamic sites, with blogs and articles and such, there are lots of engines like wordpress and joomla, or drupal.

Personally I find it most productive to use an engine, but to write your own template with HTML and CSS, so that you get the full functionality of an engine, with a 100% custom looking website, like if you have written it all yourself, from the HTML to PHP and all the scripts.

I used to use bluefish a lot but I ended up moving to geany. Geany seems to blend in more with the Gnome environment and seems to behave more predictably sometimes (e.g. try to select a block of text and indent it. In geany it's just the standard tab key, in bluefish it's Ctrl+period or something like that).

I don't normally use WYSIWYG editors. I tried Kompozer to edit my new Wordpress site layout and found it didn't render it very accurately. BlueGriffon seems to be more accurate in this regard. For the record, BlueGriffon is the "official" successor to Nvu (which Kompozer is a fork of).

I'm a fan of Aptana Studio 3 running on top of OpenJDK