Mozilla Composer is not bad... It's part of the Mozilla "Suite", and one of two features that are not (yet) available in the same quality as a Firefox plugin. Mozilla is included with Slackware, and available for Windows, too.

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I'm surprised no one has suggested Emacs. If you change you .Xmodmap and remap youp Left Ctl to Caps Lock, it's a great editor. I'm just getting back into html after a 3 yr break. I prefer doing it all myself, makes it easier to find mistakes and you learn much more that way.

www.pagetutor.com gives you a quick tutorial on making webpages.

maybe because he's asking about what windows app for his daughter who uses windows? don't worry, it threw me at first, too, until i did more than quickly scan what he was saying.

what this thread is doing in the slackware forum i have no idea. :confused: at best it should be in the linux general, or even general, probably.

Use the proper W3C Tools (replacements for Front Page, MS Publisher and others):
W3C Amaya
Amaya is a complete online web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface, similar to that of the most popular commercial browsers. With such an interface, users do not need to know the HTML or CSS languages.
NVU
NVU (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
Quanta Plus.
Quanta Plus is a web development tool for the GNU/Linux K Desktop Environment. Quanta is designed for quick web development and is rapidly becoming a mature editor with a number of great features and lies at the heart of the KDE Web Dev suite of tools.
Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers.
Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
Mozilla Composer
Mozilla's HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your simple documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.
SCREEM
Screem is a web development environment. It's purpose is to increase productivity when constructing a site, by providing quick access to commonly used features. While it is written for use with the GNOME desktop environment in mind it does not specifically require you to be running it, just have the libraries installed.
Unlike most other HTML editors SCREEM does not provide a WYSIWYG display of pages. Instead you are presented with the raw html source in its editor window.
Scite
SciTE is a GUI-based single-document editor which uses the Scintilla editor component. It rapidly styles most common programming languages with good control over how syntactic elements are displayed, and features folding for C++, C, Java, JavaScript, and Python. Styling of HTML also styles embedded scripts written in VBScript, Javascript, or Python.

Of course you can always use a text editor to code.

For Windows user I would recommend HTML Kit
HTML-Kit is a full-featured, highly customizable and free development environment that can be used to create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts. Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages. Over 400 free plugins are available for extending and customizing HTML-Kit to fit the way you work.

Memory serves, there is a version of Emacs for Windows though.

Also, I would seriously suggest that your daughter *not* learn on Frontpage, and that any copy of it is purged from said computer - besides trying to force its extensions on you, the code it produces is pretty shabby as well and not very conducive to learning HTML/XHTML.

I would probably recommend Dreamweaver for web developing in Windows - it can be a bit more intimidating than FrontPage to start with, but once you get into it, it's a lot more flexible and powerful.

and i'm sure that's the first choice of windows users everywhere. :rolleyes:

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yeah, you guys are right, this doesn't really belong in Slackware section... sorry.

Anyway thanks for all the ideas, but i think i'm going with dreamweaver MX for her to start with, at least so she can get some stuff up quickly, but still uses the "split screen" style to show what she's creating (sort of) and gets her close to the source code.

Then, when she wants to do something that Dreamweaver doesn't do (unless one purchases all these "packs" for hundreds of dollars) she'll have to look it up and go into the code..... and knowing her, it should take her a few days to want to do something that dreamweaver won't do out of the box.

I'm also giving her the "teach yourself HTML" CD and book that used some years ago,, it is a bit dated, but then she can pop down some raw code and really begin learning how this all works.

I do believe i'll be setting her up a dual-boot system soon,, i believe i have an 800 mhz board and processor somewhere, then we'll get into "why linux is better than win". Then she'll be tearing up the Vector Linux discussion boards.

Maybe after she sees "march of the penguins" she'll really want to go Linux.

Thanks for all your help, you have all given me much to think about,,,,,, be happy.