Tools For Creating Web pages

To create Web pages and documents such as handbooks that you want to put on line, which free software to use?
From text processing with HTML saving to online editors, solutions are various!

Star Office and Google Pack

Star Office is now included in Google Pack, and it contains a complete text processor which can also create lightweight HTML files that are acceptable as Web pages.
In the HTML format the documents lose a part of their visual quality also the software is better appropriate for documents such as handbooks, which will have a Web version and a printable PDF version, which preserves the quality of the original document.
Star Office is accompanied by many essential software such as Google Desktop and a virus protector, all free but there are around 150 megabytes to download!

Kompozer

One of the rare free Wisiwyg software for editing HTML pages, NVU has been created by the Linspire Linux distribution (formerly Lindows) but translated for Windows too. Is functionalities are complete and go even until uploading files on the server (superfluous with a ftp synchronizer). NVU does suffer from design flaws such as the edges of pages inaccessible to editing. Since the version 1.0 the software has never been updated but a fork has been created.

Kompozer. A fork of NVU for improving the software.

Dreamweaver

This software is far from being free, but old versions circulated on the Web as promotion and were provided on CD accompanying some magazines. If you can found one of these free versions, even if it is five years or more old, it will be quite better than a software like NVU.

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Live Writer

Live writer has a restricted use since it works only with Windows and .Net installed, and that it relates only to blogs, to which it is connected (it supports the majority of the formats), it excites bloggers, because it makes it possible to create the pages off line, with a better Wysiwyg interface than what any integrated editor has, and it transfers then the post on the blog once realization completed, with images or videos.

Live Writer for blogs.
Airpress. A similar software from Adobe.
Flock. This gecko-based browser includes an editor for your blog, either hosted or on your own website.

CMS

The contents managers have an online editor, often rather poor, which justifies the existence of Live Writer. For the price of a limited look, with uniform page-setting, one profits from an automatic management of the site with classification of the articles in categories, generation of RSS feeds. The Pligg software which makes it possible to create its own digg-like and obtains a great success, the number of such sites increases exponentially!

Free CMS using PHP and MySQL.

FCK Editor and Tiny MCE

Two open source online editors. The two software has a complete editing toolbar, but the interface made in Javascript suffers from an extreme slowness. Moreover they are hard to use and to make them interact with databases. It is possible however to interface them to a CMS.

How to use FCK Editor.