Editors for publishing Web pages

[AverageJoe]

Hopefully I explain what I'm attempting to do properly but if you need more info, please ask me. In the late 90's I setup a couple of Web pages using Netscape 4.7 and used it well into the early 2000's. I haven't setup a site since then so I'm not sure how to go about doing that these days. I see things have changed a lot among browsers. The Net 4.7 allowed me to edit a page and see it pretty much as it would be published. Images, text, columns, etc... were all there to view and I could move things around the page by dragging them or cut and paste.

I looked into HTML editors today and the ones I've tried only show me the code of a page I saved but unlike the Net4.7 there is nothing to view like an actual Web page. Am I missing something and I should be able to display and edit the actual page or is there diffenent software I need to use?

I usually use Firefox but have Chrome and Edge. The site won't be anything fancy, no movies, audio, just a Web site with plain text and maybe some links. I doubt if there's is anything free these days but don't want to buy something expensive, I'm not selling goods or making money, just publishing notes from something that interests me and like minded friends. What is out there these days that some of you might use? TIA for any help you can offer.

 

[Solaris17]

Easiest would be a CMS like Wordpress or Joomla.

Places like Wix or squarespace also host for you and provide web UIs if you dont want to host your own.

If you dont want to host something heavy like wordpress, or joomla yourself, or utilize something like wix or squarespace

Adobe Dreamweaver is still a thing. Which will let you visually edit and FTP to a webserver.

 

[Wirko]

Adobe Dreamweaver is still a thing. Which will let you visually edit and FTP to a webserver.

Either that, or learn enough HTML and CSS to put working web pages together. Firefox Developer Tools are of greatest help here. The editor allows you to edit the DOM tree (the hierarchical tree of all HTML elements). Probably lets you create one from scratch too (but I never tried that). It's not a WYSIWYG editor but you see the effect of your edits immediately.

Chrome and Edge have similar editors as well.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

SeaMonkey?

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

I am no webdev......i hire people to do that.

that said, one of my colleagues was showing me this, and it was surprisingly cool and easy. Not free, but $60 bucks isn't bad at all.

WYSIWYG Web Builder

If you are looking for something open-source there is

Apache NetBeans

 

[Wirko]

I've just tested how MS Word 2010 and LibreOffice 6.1 (from 2018) open the HTML of the page we're looking at right now. Both have WYSIWYG HTML editing abilities. Based on what I see, they have no idea about CSS or file dependencies (.css and other files). They do display pics from URL links, though. For editing primitive static web pages they would suffice, and newer versions may be more advanced in this regard.

But the OP has left the town, so we're only giving advice to each other at this point.