Nvu - the Poor Man’s Dreamweaver
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When push comes to shove in Web development I am just as happy with notepad as I am with any other Web site editor out there today. Most of the either over promise or under deliver. I figured I would give the world of WYSIWYG editors another shot though. I downloaded Nvu and I have to say I am pretty impressed with what I saw.
Now I wouldn’t say this tool would be great to use if you were wanting to develop the “next great Web application” but if you just need to get a quick and easy Web site going - it is a good way to go. Nvu really focuses on trying to make itself easy to use for anybody out there. No matter if you have been designing Web sites for year or you just started today. The learning curve is not that big of a mountain to climb.
So where did this little dream program come from?
Nvu was started from the Mozilla Composer code base. As you may have heard, the Mozilla Internet suite is in the process of being broken up into individual pieces (browser, email, etc.). Nvu will pick up where Composer left off, adding additional features, functionality and ease of use.
So if you are looking for a free WYSIWYG editor to have on standby or you just to learn Web editing 101, add Nvu to your list of Web design applications.
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10 Comments
fernando
March 19th, 2007
at 10:52pm
NVU sucks… I’m serious. the project is stucked at the same version at least 3 years.
Michael Wein
March 20th, 2007
at 8:02am
I clicked my way through page http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/web/2007/03/19/nvu-the-poor-mans-dreamweaver/ but never found a download URL for NVU.
Would you be kind enough to send the link to me?
Thank you.
Michael
Fernando
March 20th, 2007
at 10:56am
do you always erase opinions that doesn’t match yours?
Scuzz
March 22nd, 2007
at 5:21am
Well, that was a ton of fun.
2 million links, tons of fancy junk all over the article, and not one single link to where this paragon of programs actually is.
Keep up the good work, I love wasting time.
Dwight Blubaugh
March 22nd, 2007
at 7:18am
NVU is fine but a bit too buggy. There is another free one that is the NVU code only with most bugs fixed. KompoZer at http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/
This is what NVU was supposed to be. This is very good for freeware.
Dina
March 27th, 2007
at 5:59am
I have to agree with you, Mitch. NVU (available for download at http://nvu.com) served as my web design training wheels. Once I found out, “Hey, I think I can do this,” it was onto Dreamweaver. I recommend it to everyone who’s just beginning to dabble in web page design.
N
October 7th, 2008
at 8:09pm
I hate Nvu it deletes tags that you create yourself in the source view of the application and its frustrating . In conclusion NVU sucks
Smizz
May 22nd, 2009
at 2:04pm
The program seems a bit weird, why is it when I highlight something and tell it to get rid of the italics and underline it don’t work? The program is a bit confusing, I went back to the normal notepad as this one started to frustrate me.
Ejaculation Trainer
June 29th, 2009
at 7:19pm
NVU is a really bad program to use. It deletes tag’s without warning and sticks carriage returns into the source code that make reading the source code a PITA. Just wish I could afford dreamweaver.
Matt Wutzke
August 6th, 2009
at 12:37am
I have tried But I totally agree in the weirdness of NVU. I am totally in favour of opensourse and linux, but then the simplicity and power of Dreamweaver is making me to think otherwise.