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Learn more about open source software with Ron Bongo by familiarizing yourself with the following readily available open-source applications intended for use by web designers.

More and more web designers are heavily relying on open source applications to help them with their website design and development work. This is due not only because of the favorable price tags these applications carry, most of which are free, but because of the tremendous support that web designers can rely on from the community behind these applications.

The following describes some of the most useful open source applications that web designers would find useful with their work. There are different types of applications intended for different aspects of web design work. Surely there is one that could cater to any particular need that web designers have. The following is the first of a series that will showcase these open source applications for web designers, which focuses on source code and WYSIWYG editors – so start your discovery now.

WYSIWYG and Source Code Editors

* Amaya – developed by W3C or the World Wide Web Consortium, Amaya was first introduced as an HTML and CSS editor which later evolved as an editor of XML-based SVG, MathML and similar systems.

* Bluefish Editor – if you need a fast but lightweight editor then Bluefish is a good application to try. Its features include useful wizards, HTML documents, project management facilities, search and replace options that can help you quickly replace source code by batches.

* CSSED – a fully feature GTK-2 based CSS editor, CSSED features a plugin system that will give users a good facility for extensibility

* jEdit – programmers would prefer this open source text editor as it can run on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows and features highlighting tools for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML and other languages.

* KompoZer – this web authoring system is fully featured and includes a tabbed user interface and an integrated FTP client. It also supports all major operating systems.

* Notepad – this is the popular and excellent open source text editor built into Windows that also supports CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML

* Open BEXI HTML Builder – this HTML web builder is browser based and features a CSS color picker, and easy to use interface and simple options for project management

* Quanta Plus – this is a web development IDE that is able to run customized scripts, codes, and features and visual CSS editor with code hints and auto completion that makes it easier to use for designers.

* SeaMonkey – this is an all-in-one web browser foster by Mozilla that also features a powerful HTML editor that you can use for in-browser source code editing.

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