WYSIWYG GUI CSS Editor?

Is there a WYSIWYG GUI CSS editor in existance? I just want to set up a fairly basic web page and my CSS skills are noobish at best. Yes I know, learn as I go, but come on, just want to be able to set up a basic page quickly.

 

Is the trial full fledged or gimped? But $599? Yikes. It's not even in my TechNet subscription either.

Nevermind, Web Pro is $149 new, and can get Upgrade for $48 from Amazon only requires an Office product to upgrade.

 

uh, nice deal. have to check it out, then, too.

sadly dev tools are typically not in the technet, and the msdn account is way over my price league.

other than that, basic css is very very simple. visual web developer would have some intellisense on it for quickly coding something. that is free, at least.

 

Basic CSS is simple if you've been using it. I haven't really touched the stuff for a long time. Getting things to line up properly and look decent is not so simple as one would think. I refuse to use tables though. That's quick and dirty though.

 

well, you said BASIC and that is simple.

but from my testings right now, web developer express shouldacoulda work for you, just as well (and that's free). can create css code for you, having a nice dialog where you specify what you want, and some wisiwig things. if you don't want to throw around money, that is.

i think you're not scared of SEEING code, just don't want to have to type it all. then web developer express should be fine for you. maybe.

and yes, html layouting can be annoying as hell. there are much smarter ui/design layouting platforms than html/css. but well, it's the standard, isn't it?

and yes, tables are dead. divs are the new tables

 

Yeah, I'm just gonna do it manually as annoying as it is. At least I can be proud that I suck at CSS even as simple as it is. long live div!

But I'll take a peek at Web Developer Express.

I have a mish mash of CSS, HTML, Perl, and PHP that I need to combine to get what I want. Damn I should have never stopped poking at code...

 

well, i suck at all of it, and i'm still proud of my page i've set up. you might, if you like what you see, glimpse into my css file.

davepermen.net the css: http://davepermen.net/Master/Style.Readable.css

and some basic mockup i've started for another page of mine:
conesoft.net the css: http://conesoft.net/screen.css

might give some hints on some of the css tags.

and feel free to ask anything.

 

That's the other thing, is getting the right graphics. I don't want anything fancy, but enough to not make it scream NOOB.

Yours looks pretty good and well developed.

Part of my problem is I have my 2 & 3 yr old screaming in my ear half the time so it's hard to concentrate and focus. Something that I should be able to crank out in a day, is taking me a week and barely got started! (well I've scrapped the whole thing about a half dozen times).

 

i don't have that problem yet i guess some sound-absorbing headphones are a better investment, then

graphics.. i'm all for metro-style myself. typography, fonts, layouts > graphics. mostly because i can't really create graphics

 

Thanks for your input. In the end it will probably end up looking like a 1996 AOL page, but whatever.

 

get some gifs, then.. let the hamsters dance!!

 

Not a student, but thanks.

 

I've always liked kompozer. It does the job without inserting tons of "crap coding" that you usually get with editors. I'm not sure its totally wysiwyg, but its worth a look.

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Oh man, S.Prime thank you SO MUCH... +1. This is what I was looking for. Something simple and straight forward, it's small and portable too! Awesome.

I'm using PHP to process my pages, wondering if there's a way to get PHP code to process locally. Hmm.

 

If you are running Windows 7 thus IIS 7, there is php available so you can have it run under IIS.

 

If you need to test php code locally i recommend uniform server, much better than IIS and nothing to install, just a small download and extract it to your C:\ drive.

 

emiljan, thanks! I'll give it a go. That looks great. Wow, server on a thumb drive as well as editor. This oughta be fun!

 

I usually use xampp lite on a flash drive. works great.
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once installed, use the "setup_xampp.bat" for first run, or anytime your drive path "f:/ , etc.." changes.
use xampp-control.exe to start and stop the services when your done.

thanks emilian, i will check that out.

 

After this thread I kind of got deterred from doing any more work with it, now I'm getting back. How do I utilize PHP using XAMPP? It says it supports PHP, but there's no way to start the service that I see?

 

I don't recommend you use XAMPP because some of the components are outdated so you could run into potential bugs. I would use UniformServer, its a small download you extract to your C:\ Drive and from there you can start up the server which starts up Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

Then you need to create a folder inside the C:\UniServer\web\ directory to place your files in.
<folder name="">To access the files you type into a web-browser "localhost\<folder name="">nameOfFolder"

You can download UniformServer from here.</folder></folder>

 

LOL. Noobert issue. I completely forgot to put localhost/

D'oh!

edit: I just closed down xampp (and all servers) and ran UniServer.

I put http://localhost/index.php for URL but it won't load the stock index.php file. I even click on the "1" icon and select WWWRoot and it still says can't access page.

 

Did you start the Server before you tried to access "localhost"? Click on the "1" icon and "Start UniServer(Apache MySQL)"

Also you don't need the "http://" before localhost.

 

Yes I did, but it still won't work. rebooted and still won't work. I started up XAMPP and worked fine.

After "Start UniServer", I run the "check server status" and it says Apache nor MySQL are running:

 

Hm, nevermind, had to run UniServer as administrator. It's extracted and installed in C:\Uniserver not Program Files so not sure reason for need as admin but whatever, it works.

 

Also is the server installed under C:\ because the file-name can't have any spaces.

XAMPP could be preventing it from starting properly. Uninstall XAMPP and see what happens.

 

As for me Codelobster rocks. It is my favourite free editor for CSS, HTML and PHP files.