Have you tried with Dreamweaver 4 or another version before MX? I suppose those have to be compatible with Window 98.

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A perfectly good wysiwyg editor is included with the Mozilla suite. And Open Office includes a wysiwyg editor and some templates, also. Both are open source and free. The Mozilla suite is about 12 megs and Open Office is around 65 meg. Both work on win98se.

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A free(as in open source)wysiwyg editor is NVU;it has bianries for many platforms including windows and can do a lot of things.It is pretty capable and for a newbie can work well.Try it out:

http://www.nvu.com/

or you could try

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ -the w3c web authoring software

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Hmm these are good ones... Better then the ones I found at http://www.softpedia.com
I tried them all there, freeware and shareware and most of 'em really aren't clear nor easy in use... Thanks for the links

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For those who say that you should never use a WYSIWYG website editor, NOT EVERYONE has time to learn how to html properly. I'm not saying that you shouldn't bother to learn basic html, but using a WYSIWYG gets your site online much quicker than PAYING someone else to do it for you the "right" way.

I've never used a free one, so I can't comment on any suggested, but I used one to build my site online over the course of a weekend. I know there are errors on it, and it's probably not viewable in all browsers but it's a start and as I get time I plan on correcting things as much as possible.

I got a call from a company that wanted me to PAY THEM $850 to "fix" my site for me. Pu-leaze. I could pay someone to build me a custom site for that much. And all the errors they mentioned are a result of having to use the "template-based" online website builder. Once I get it transfered over to Trap I should be able to fix most everything on my own.

Anyway, the WYSIWYG website builders were not made for "professionals" to use (though I know many do to get things started quicker). They were made for people who want to have an online presence, but cannot justify the cost of hiring a professional web-designer to create it. Much like how there are now "programs" and "websites" that will create a "custom logo" for you, for cheap. The people who use these services WILL NOT PAY a graphic designer $$$ to design a logo for them, and I would much rather see them use these services to have a half-way decent logo, than something they threw together in WORD. YUK!

I think if you want to avoid having a web-designer FLAKE OUT on you, and not get the job done on time, or to your specifications, the BEST option, is to use a WYSIWYG website builder and DO IT YOURSELF! But if you have all the time in the world, and plenty of money and PATIENCE for people who don't listen to what you want, by all means, hire a designer to build you a pretty site, that is no-where to be found in the search engines. Myself, I like my google PR4 and being #1 for my keywords on multiple engines, thank you very much. But hey, that's just me and my "little old WYSIWYG editor".

 

 

 

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everyone has a WYSIWYG editor on the computer whatever model it is and u can use it for web puropeses as well it called notpad you can find it in the start menu.
so you didnt need to download a different WYSIWYG editor just use notepad.

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The WYSIWYG Editor Im using is KompoZer. Its fairly good in my opinion. It takes persistance to start doing complex HTML codes but basic is easy. You can create your own from scratch or construct them in the WYSIWYG Editor, then vie the HTML after. Or not. Its your choice. I've have it for a couple days and I've learnt alot. It has FTP included (so I've been told) so it will save you downloading a second program for that

Ofcourse theres always Notepad. But you need to construct your own codes. If you can, write your codes in Notepad:

1. Construct your Code.
2. Save the code as websitecode.html
3. Open your Internet Browser
4. Click Flie, Open...
5. Click Browse and find your file saved as websitecode.html
6. Open and Taa-Daah! Theres your code.

YOu dont have to name the file as 'websitecode' you can name it however you wish but you must include .html if yo have used HTML coding

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