Looking for an easy & cheap WYSIWYG editor for my grandmother

[saraazriel]

Well, the title pretty much says it all.

I created a site for my grandmother that she is going to have to maintain. Dreamweaver MX would be perfect for her if it wasn't $400. I don't think it's worth it for just her one site and I don't want to make her pay so much.

What I'm looking for is something similar to Word (which makes me think of FrontPage, but that is $170) because that is the program she knows well.

It would be the perfect solution if it had FTP built in, but that's not absolutely necessary.

So.... does such a great product even exist??

[greg.harvey]

Netscape Composer is free and it's ok if a little limited. Absolutely fine for reasonably simple stuff though. All your tables, properties, links, fonts, etc, etc ...

See http://aitt.acadiau.ca/tutorials/NetscapeComposer/ for tutorials to give you an idea of what it's (well, was really) like. If you can't find it download I could possibly host it for you somewhere as a temporary thing.

[Shaggy]

If you're using Windows 98 you can install frontpage express from the Windows CDROM. It also comes free with IE4+ I think. Not sure about IE5+, could be just IE4. and i don't think it works under NT/2000/XP

CHeers

[TheOriginalH]

www.mozilla.org !!

Get her a decent browser and wysiwyg editor in one

(and it has built in simple ftp)

[Sparkie]

What about Evrsoft 1st page 2000 or arachnophilia? Both are really nice WYSIWYG editors that you can find easily on download.com or tucows

[hillsy]

Neither of them are truly WYSIWYG though. Unless you count the "Preview" feature. Still need to get in and hack code.