Whilst KompoZer has not been updated since 2007, the major mark-up languages haven’t changed since then so it should still work. KompoZer is based on Gecko, the rendering engine which Mozilla amongst others utilise, and is a fork of Nvu (another WYSIWYG editor which is now not developed), itself a fork of Mozilla Composer!

KompoZer has all the obvious features of a WYSIWYG web editor: HTML and CSS can be edited; FTP support; tables; and tabs to navigate between pages and views. Some nicer features include an integrated W3 validator and support for XFN.

Binaries are available for Win32, PPC Macs (which will run on Intel-based ones) and Linux. Source is also available so it can be compiled for other operating systems.

Like Nvu, the application can be used from a USB pen.

I personally use KompoZer if I quickly need to whip up a webpage and I don’t have the patience to code it in Textmate. It’s certainly usable, produces relatively clean code and it’s £500 cheaper than Dreamweaver!

The Firefox add-on JSView adds that possibility to the Firefox browser. Installing the Firefox extension adds a new entry to the right-click menu which displays the amount of Javascript and CSS files that are referenced by the website.

Each file can be opened by selecting it. The source code of the selected file will be opened in the default source viewer of the browser.

The extension provides the option to view the source code of all Javascript or CSS files at once. The tool is especially useful for web designers.

The first one became my favorite as soon as I came across it not long ago. Called Design Float, this website is based on digging system (honestly a clone) but with the content range limited to design only. Despite being aimed at design in general rather than web design only, most of the content published till present is related to the web and computer graphics.

Especially often people publish different sorts of useful lists of services you would normally hardly hit on by accident, like a list of online color tools for example. So far I’ve found quite a bunch of interesting resources thanks to the filtering that shows the best content. Watching this web grow in size slowly, I wish it wouldn’t get spoiled by the not-so-perfect digging (or floating in this case) system during longer time period. RSS feeds for different categories are available.

Another useful website is actually a simple list called For Web Designers rather than a complex site. Although it was IMHO built especially for the purpose of earning money using 4 small-size banners sitting right at the top, it still does provide links that may be eventually found useful by many. Tutorials, tools, free resources, validators and generators, all at your disposal in one place. Over 500 links so far, tag cloud for easier search is present as well.

The last one, Clean CSS is an online CSS optimizer and formatter (not a validator though). Upload your style sheet, select options and level of “compression” and get the result in a downloadable form. Light-weight code, more satisfied surfers.