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BlueGriffon v1.7 Updated

SYSTEM on 14 May 2013
  • 61MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by webfork

BlueGriffon is a feature-rich tabbed WYSIWYG content editor for the Web with formatting, spell-check, and keyboard shortcuts. Powered by the rendering engine behind Firefox, it's a modern and robust solution to edit HTML in conformance to the latest standards, including HTML 4, XHTML 1 and HTML 5 documents. Includes the popular vector graphics editor SVG Edit and HTML files can be viewed in a rendered or a source-only mode that supports themes.

Note: some features are for-pay including editing style sheets (thanks IanFromBarrie) and Full Screen view, but the program also supports many free add-ons similar to Firefox.

Cross-platform and intended to replace NVU, a tool written by the same author.

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System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable
Stealth: ? No. %APPDATA%\Mozilla
Path portability: No
License: MPL/GPL/LGPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Launch bluegriffon.exe -profile data
Similar/alternative apps: KompoZer Portable, NVU Portable
What's new?
  • fixed crasher on whitespace deletion
  • fixed bustage of Image Insertion dialog
  • initial state for css and script editors modified
  • disable and re-enable spellchecker when switching back to wysiwyg view for better perf; b=490
  • search in stylesheet and script was horked; b=520
  • fix for endless replaceAll in source views; b=523
  • titlebar not updated when last tab is closed; b=531
  • "find next" shortcut; b=549
  • can't use nobr; b=546
  • cannot underline a standalone text node: b=551
  • new build and langpack organization
  • links from clipboard in insertLink dialog; b=547
  • better detection of xhtml5
  • strange emphasis in some cases; b=539
  • adhere better to recent flexbox spec
  • more dialogs reachable from source view
  • box shadows fixed
Latest comments
IanFromBarrie on 2012-02-08 04:49

Chacoo, thanks for pointing out that creating new external style sheets is possible with the Plus icon. I missed that.
I don't understand what it is you're referring to about the CSS editor when you mention "all its CSS3 capability". Unlessi I'm missing another icon there is NO CSS capability in the editor.
By that I mean that the CSS editor I see in the portable version is a plain vanilla editor, with absolutely none of the CSS-specific code completion, point-and-shoot and syntax checking that a CSS editor has.
Sure, I can write CSS3 by hand with this editor ... but the whole point of this sort of tool is to not have to write code by hand, is it not?

SYSTEM on 2012-04-29 09:36

A workaround in case BlueGriffon 1.5 fails to start due to a XML parsing error.
Open the file data\prefs.js with any text editor (Notepad is fine).
Search for the text "general.useragent.locale".
If you find that string, replace the line with

user_pref("general.useragent.locale", "en_US");

Otherwise insert that line anywhere in the file.
That change forces the application to the English language, regardless of your system locale.

lautrepay on 2012-04-30 05:50

The workaround mentioned by SYSTEM also applies when you get the the same error in Firefox.

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Email Link Encoder v4.0

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

Email Link Coder assists you in encoding the email links on your web pages so they cannot be easily extracted by spambots. The email links can be produced as encoded HTML, Javascript or images.

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System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch EMailCoder.exe.
Latest comments
CyberDoc on 2006-08-25 14:29

The identical problem that Andrew Lee is having is exhibited on my WinXP SP2 PC... Otherwise javascript and image features work well...

Andrew Lee on 2006-08-27 04:41

I emailed the author, and here's his reply: "I'm not sure what happened there. I've re-uploaded it to my website and it seems to be fine now." I have downloaded it again and it seems to be working fine too.

CyberDoc on 2006-08-28 21:51

I just downloaded it again... overwrote the 1st EXE and it is working beautifully... NICE... Thanks go to Andrew Lee for following up with the author... and to the author for a quick response...

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Zoundry Raven v1.0.375

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

Zoundry Raven is a tabbed WYSIWYG blog editor. It's as easy to use as a word processor, and includes simple tools to add links, tags, photos, music and video files, and more. The indexer allows you to browse all of your previous posts across all of your blogs by tags, links, or images.

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System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application directory
Stealth: ? No. Creates an empty folder in "%appdata%.
License: GPLv2
How to extract: Download and run the installer and select "Install Raven as a Portable Application (Raven2Go).
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2013-04-29 06:47

Throws so many exceptions I`ve lost count. Could be great, but is very poor.

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NVU Portable v1.0 Rev 5

SYSTEM on 27 Jan 2013

Nvu is a web authoring system (like FrontPage or DreamWeaver) that features WYSIWYG editing of web pages, integrated file management via FTP and tabbed editing that makes working on multiple pages a snap. It includes support for forms, tables, and templates.

Note: KompoZer Portable is considered an unofficial bug fix based on the same code. The Nvu Project has ended and PortableApps lists KompoZer on the former home page.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. You can enter Unicode characters into the documents you create, but you can't save them with Unicode filenames.
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NVUPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: BlueGriffon, KompoZer Portable
Latest comments
vcb on 2007-09-09 02:08

his is a great program. While set up to easly open and edit html files, I found I can also open and edit asp pages as well. I really like how it color codes the html on the source view page

Angelo Archie Amoruso on 2008-01-10 03:53

Now the application gets developed with name "KompoZer"

Angelo Archie Amoruso on 2008-01-10 03:54

The application is now named as "KompoZer"

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KompoZer Portable v0.7.10

webfork on 16 Feb 2013
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Simon.T

KompoZer is a web authoring system (like FrontPage or DreamWeaver) that features WYSIWYG editing of web pages in a tabbed interface. Although requiring no knowledge of HTML, views can switch between normal, code, and "tag" views. Includes basic CSS, PHP, and Javascript tools, and support for forms, complex tables, layers, and templates.

Includes a Site Manager that works with local and FTP sites to give easy access to files in an easy tree-style format.

KompoZer and its name are based on Mozilla Composer (now part of SeaMonkey) and the now-defunct Nvu project. KompoZer Portable is a PortableApps version of the program.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. You can enter Unicode characters into the documents you create, but you can't save them with Unicode filenames.
License: Freeware/Open Source (MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license)
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch KompoZerPortable.exe
Similar/alternative apps: BlueGriffon, NVU Portable
Latest comments
Buksie on 2008-05-03 21:51

Might be useful to mention that this tool does not support the use of frames

Webfork on 2008-09-03 17:03

Outstanding HTML editor. Few bugs still exist but more than adequate for basic Web design. Almost never crashes and available for multiple operating systems.

For more privacy by deleting listing of recent documents, erase the "Data\profile\prefs.js" file.

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