After seeing a friend using RapidWeaver and producing wonderful results in a few clicks, I was astonished and started searching if a tool like that exists for Windows. Unfortunately, so far my search yielded no result, so I'm writing here the criteria I'm using hoping that anybody will come up with a relevant suggestion:
- WYSIWYG HTML editor
- Must work (well!) on Windows (Vista/7)
- Must not be web based (I don't care about webapps allowing me to create sites off of crappy templates)
- Template-based (and possibly with many templates available)
- Pretty flexible (nothing like Dreamweaver, but I wouldn't like being stuck with just entering text into some prebuilt templates)
- Intuitive (and possibly good looking) UI
- Producing standards-compliant markup (office-like HTML is not an option)
Here is what I don't care about:
- Price/License (if it's commercial it's probably even better for my purpose, as if the tool is good I will want fast, quality support)
- Good code editing features (when I'll get my hands dirty with the markup I want things to be looking already pretty good so I'll just have to improve certain areas based on my requirements...)
- Server-side scripting (I'm handling that otherwise, for this tool I just care about the design part)
Here's a list of commonly recommended tools I consider unfit for my needs:
- NVU
- KompoZer
- Microsoft Expression Web
- Microsoft Visual Web Designer
- Adobe Dreamweaver (good, but too good for my needs. At this stage, I'd prefer something quicker, even if it means having lower quality html)
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!