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One thing that all web designers need is a good HTML editor. Plus with the economy the way it is the right price is FREE. Well, over at DevelopersVoice they have put together a good list of the best free HTML editors.

Below is an excerpt from the post.

Aptana Studio :

Aptana Studio is the free, open source Web development environment optimized for use with Ajax libraries and scripting languages like JavaScript, Ruby and PHP. Aptana Studio is considered by many developers the best-in-class authoring environment for today’s more rich and interactive Web pages and Ajax applications.

There is also support for Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone, PHP, and Ruby on Rails development, which comes via additional development plugins.

Pros: Complete IDE, many plugins

Cons : Complicated, developer oriented

Homepage : http://www.aptana.com/studio/

Download : http://www.aptana.com/studio/download

Size : 131 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows, Mac, Linux
Free HTML editor

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KompoZer :

Kompozer is an open source web development tool built on NVU. The project strives to fix bugs in the NVU project and added new features to it. Both the HTML editor as well as the CSS editor has so far be fixed and updated as part of the Kompozer project - and many more changes are scheduled. Apart from that the main feature set is exactly as in NVU. And one of the most important features is still that editing take place in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode allowing you full control of layout as you work with your web design.

Pros: full featured WYSIWYG editor

Cons : not updated , Last release 2006

Homepage : http://kompozer.net/

Download : http://kompozer.net/download.php

Size : 7.6 MB License Type : Unrestricted Freeware OS : Windows 98 – Vista
Free HTML editor

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