Freeware Dreamweaver Alternative

I used Dreamweaver at work, but would like something similar for use at home. Is there something out there?

There are several freeware HTML building tools, but no single tool I'm aware of is as bloa..., er, I mean... as complete as Dreamweaver.

The closest that I know of is Nvu[=http//www.nvu.com]Nvu but it has been mostly abandoned since v1.0. However there is an unofficial updated fork called Kompozer[=http//www.kompozer.net]Kompozer, but I haven't tried it. I prefer code editors to WYSIWYG drag & drop editors like Dreamweaver.

You might also look at Aptana.[=http//www.aptana.com]Aptana. It's not exactly like Dreamweaver, but it's very powerful and full-featured product. It's an Eclipse-based product that can either be downloaded in a stand-alone Eclipse bundle, or as a plugin to add to a current Eclipse installation. Eclipse is the IDE I use for most of my software development, including Java, web, PHP, and some cross-platform C/C++, and so I'm a bit biased towards Eclipse-based tools. Never having been a big Dreamweaver fan myself, I'd tend to point you towards Aptana.

Thanks D. I'm not particularly skilled at design or layout, nor do I have the inclination to learn, so I like the intuitiveness of Dreamweaver, with being able to flip back and forth between code and design views.

I suppose if there's something better, and less resource hogging, I'm all for it, I'm just used to using Dreamweaver, and it would be nice to have something similar to use at home, and on my laptop on the road.

[quotedded7043d4="doylnea"]Thanks D. I'm not particularly skilled at design or layout, nor do I have the inclination to learn, so I like the intuitiveness of Dreamweaver, with being able to flip back and forth between code and design views.

I suppose if there's something better, and less resource hogging, I'm all for it, I'm just used to using Dreamweaver, and it would be nice to have something similar to use at home, and on my laptop on the road.[/quotedded7043d4]
Those I mention have a code & design view that you can flip back and forth between, but they probably won't work exactly the same way. Nvu/Kompozer was designed specifically to be a freeware clone of Dreamweaver/Frontpage design tools, they just aren't as full featured yet. The original author of Nvu has abandoned it and is working on the next generation rewrite called Composer, but it's still in development and has no release yet. In the meantime, another developer forked Nvu, polished it up a bit, and released it as Kompozer. It might be sufficient for you, I don't know.

i sell an html editor that i'd give you a free copy of. it rare i sell any copies of that anymore anyways. but it's mostly for people who would rather use notepad than dreamweaver (like me). i use it all the time. i hate dreamweaver and i just never understood it's appeal. it has basically no features aside from wysiwyg, and those are a dime a dozen. i tried aptana too, and it's the same deal, imo. just all kinds of fluff and no actual substence.
of course imo all you need is a text editor that makes it a bit quicker to code, by inserting chunks of code for you. and reminding you of how things work (eg the name of a certain css property).