good wysiwyg software?

[luv2liv]

what software can i use to edit websites now?
i ordered this template and it looks great! http://www.templatemonster.com/demo/47331.html

when i load it into Dreamweaver 8 at work, it looks like crap. i remember DW8 was awesome back in the days. guess its not good enough with all the new codes?

 

[pyonir]

I kept trying to figure something out...but ended up just taking the lazy way and going with Wordpress. I asked for recommendations here and just about everyone just said to go with WP.

I guess it all depends on what you need it for. WP ended up working fine, once I found the right theme/template for the site I was redoing, which took quite a while.

 

[John Connor]

Well, there's KompoZer. http://www.kompozer.net/ But I bet it renders the same.

A lot of cPanels have their own one click website installers now too.

WP needs to be secured. So make sure you read through all of this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-security-tips/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/

 

[John Connor]

Are you sure you're using Dreamweaver correctly? Like are there settings that need to be looked at?

 

[tcsenter]

Welcome to 2008. I tried loading a bunch of templates in DW (and another program I forget now) and that's how they all seemed to come out, with wrong formatting, tables didn't look right, nesting fucked up. I just chalked it up to being "you get what you pay for" but you said you purchased this one?

 

[lxskllr]

Seems like somebody's doing something wrong. If the template respects standards, and the editor respects standards, it should Just Work™. Have you tried using a text editor? If you're only making trivial changes, it should be approachable to someone with limited experience.

 

[John Connor]

Seems like it's missing CSS or JS.

 

[igomak23]

I edit everything in a Notepad ++. Dreamweaver is not the best solution. Why do not you turn to the developers of this theme? If you bought it, they have to help you. I prefer to use free themes from the official WordPress site. These topics have been the licensing and inspection.

 

[luv2liv]

thanks for all the suggestions.
in the description of the purchased template, it also recommends using Notepad++ as well.
i feel like it's 1997 all over again where i was writing code and hitting the refresh button to see the edits. ouch.
will try WP in the future....