{"id":434,"date":"2007-10-03T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/03\/kompozer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:51:41","slug":"kompozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/03\/kompozer\/","title":{"rendered":"KompoZer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/kompozer.png\" alt=\"kompozer.png\" title=\"kompozer.png\" \/>Today I went looking for a free WYSIWYG HTML editor that was good enough that my students could use it instead of purchasing FrontPage or DreamWeaver.\u00a0 I found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kompozer.net\">KompoZer<\/a>.\u00a0 It was everything I was looking for and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From what I understand, KompoZer is an update to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nvudev.com\/\">Nvu<\/a>.\u00a0 Both are open source programs, but Nvu is no longer being updated.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for\u00a0a program that could switch between HTML and WYSIWYG modes\u00a0while editing.\u00a0 I\u00a0have tried to use the HTML\u00a0mode in OpenOffice, but have found it to be more of a &#8220;convert your Word document to a web page&#8221; instead of a program that can be used to create a series of pages for a more complex project.\u00a0 KompoZer can handle a complex project complete with cascading style sheets.<\/p>\n<p>I only played around with the program long enough to show it to my class.\u00a0 In\u00a0less than\u00a0half an hour I was able to figure out most of the features of the program.\u00a0 I\u00a0was able to\u00a0format text, drag and drop images into my pages and\u00a0complete\u00a0advanced table manipulates.<\/p>\n<p>I have used DreamWeaver for more than\u00a0seven years and don&#8217;t plan on switching to something new, but it is good to know that a robust program like KompoZer is available for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went looking for a free WYSIWYG HTML editor that was good enough that my students could use it instead of purchasing FrontPage or DreamWeaver.\u00a0 I found KompoZer.\u00a0 It was everything I was looking for and more.\u00a0 From what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/03\/kompozer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,340,15,2],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}