Need help to find a WYSIWYG Web editor

[ardvark71]

Master Skribe?

OneLine, are you part of KDE's programming team?

Regards...

[Snowhog]

The 'k' (in blue) is for Kubuntu. We thought this title especially appropriate for OneLine.

See the wikipedia description for Scribe

[ardvark71]

The 'k' (in blue) is for Kubuntu. We thought this title especially appropriate for OneLine.

Hi...

I had no idea OneLine performed these duties for Kubuntu. ;-)

Regards...

[Snowhog]

Not for Kubuntu per se, but definitely for Kubuntu Forums.

[silver_moon]

Quanta plus can be installed by getting packages from old repositories and installing the trinity packages.
Get the full instructions here

install quanta plus on ubuntu 13.04

[rossdv8]

Remember that as long as you are content with very basic pages, MS Office, Libre Office and various other programs are able to do basic WYSIWYG html. It is pretty limited though.

In Libre you can use Writer (very basic) and Draw as well as Present.

In Draw, once you type text, it appears in a frame. You can resize and drag the contents of each frame. You can also drag and drop images and resize and reposition them. It will never be as good as writing HTML in an editor, but it works. Ther willbe errors in the way it looks in different browsers though. That's the penalty of WYSIWYG. You don;t really get what you see.

If you play with draw, you will find you can't 'save as' HTML. You have to use File > Export. You will have a heap of options then as to how you want your html to end up.

Try it. Open the result in a few browsers. See what it does.

[Goeroeboeroe]

You can use those programs, but I wouldn't advise them. Older versions of MS Office put proprietary code in it only Inter Explorer can render. But even newer versions of Internet Explorer don't render that code well.
LibreOffice / OpenOffice and newer versions of MS Office put a lot (and I mean a LOT) extra css in the code. If you use that kind of programs, it's nearly impossible to correct something if the rendering is wrong in one or more browsers. I've seen a lot of questions on forums from people who used that programs (or a bad wysiwyg-editor), and most of the time it was just impossible to help them, because the code was one big puzzle. If you, for example, repeat the font-family in every (and I mean EVERY) tag, it's almost impossible to find where things go wrong with the rendered font.
I would use those programs only if you really hate yourself, if you're absolutely sure you never have to ask anything about the code, and if you're absolutely sure you never have to change something.
As far as I know on Linux the best free wysiwyg-editor is still BlueGriffon. On Windows htmlkit seems to be good too.

[rossdv8]

Hi Goeroeboeroe.
I was thinking exactly the same when I was writing my reply. But I have to admit there have been times when all I wanted was a quick and dirty page that needed absolutely no coding. Dragon droppings works for that. But one always hopes never to have to edit the page, or add links.
I hate WYSIWYG drag and drop editors because of the pseudo HTML they produce to position elements. But the fact is, for a single page it is possible to use various existing tools and never write a line of HTML. The downside is that because the web browsers and HTML are constantly evolving, you finish up with a mess that doesn't display properly.
My favourite HTML editor used to be Windows Notepad. These days it is Kwrite :-)
I have never found a drag and drop HTML editor, even in Windows, that worked properly and created a properly coded page.
IIMSI Web Dwarf, and I think Coffee Cup were close.
I notice Blue Griffon was installed in one of my Linux boxes, but I cannot remember why I installed it. May have been to test for someone like the OP.