Rating and comments for Nvu

With its smooth and slick, and petite GUI, this application seems to form a good marriage between a WYSIWYG application, and a Hand Coding alternative...

The only consistent complaint I ever have with programs that make webpages, is the extra html they add to pages, but in the case of Nvu, even this is minimal as well.

For me, who hand codes everything, using this was a dream, just as soon as I got to know its quirks... it leaves such things as Frontpage and Coffee Cup and for Macintosh, Adobe Pagemill, and Go Live, in the dust. I have not actually used Dreamweaver, so I can't say much about that comparison, but this comes with my highest recomendation.

There is no development done after the introduction of version 1.0
I used Nvu for a short time, but was not happy with it (Sorry: I forgot why).

NVU is not a replacement for Dreamweaver. Its CSS editor is broken and the overall program is too quirky. Maybe if it reaches a version 3 or 4, I might seriously consider it.

Nvu is a promising web editor which is very useful in lightweight day-to-day usage - in fact I use it at least a few times each week for editing small, simple pages because it is trouble free, quick and straightforward.

It has not been updated since version 1.0, it does tend to keep HTML fairly clean though can sometimes disrupt formatting a bit. Its interface, buttons and controls are a good match to Firefox and are easy to understand. This is the only WYSIWYG web editor I'd expect my mother to be able to use.

While it does fall behind on a couple of points: stylesheet editing, site management and importing from other document formats being obvious weaknesses - it is such a useful little application that it will always have a place in my Programs folder.

Not a good program, it wrecks code, makes a mockery of indenting and force line wraps even after telling it not to. The option of not touching your code doesn't work. Unless you usually code in Word steer clear of this version.
Use HTML-Kit.. it's the best, it's free and its performed seamlessly in a commercial web development environment for over 5 years.

Horrible code, bad interface, bad rendering engine, and
doesn't give you much functionality.

All I got out of it was an error message saying "Page cannot be editted for an unknown reason"!

After using Frontpage for a while, I needed to change. Frontpage made a mess of my code, so I geared toward Nvu.

I've had excellent results with Nvu. Although, as other reviewers have mentioned, there are certain "quirks", but I have learned to work around those.

All in all, this is a great program!

You can better learn HTML than using that kind of ancient unmaintained software.

Try some alternatives like Quanta or Amaya.
If you have Dreamweaver (I believe CS/2). Run it under Wine.