Create a Simple Website with Kompozer

Create a Simple Website with Kompozer covers the essential facts behind the topic, including what changed, why it mattered, and how it affected users.

If you want to design your own website, read the article: Instructions for creating a website for beginners

Install Kompozer

Both the stable version (Download Kompozer) and beta (0.8b1) of the program are not required to be installed, can be downloaded here. KompoZer uses Mozilla's Gecko display engine (used in Firefox), supports both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, however version 0.7 (released in 2007) does not support new Linux versions. The latest 0.8b1 version on Windows has 8.3 MB capacity.

Quite simply, extract the program folder, copy it to Program Files, and create a path on the Desktop. For those who are curious, here is a picture of the program's directory content.

Here's what you see when you first start the program. The main window is set to thumbnail mode, and a tutorial window appears, giving you the most basic and necessary instructions. If you do not want this window to be displayed the next time you use it, you can simply select the check box in the ' Show tips at startup ' box.

Kompozer Interface

How will a website created by KompoZer look like? Here is an example page we created with a title on the head, background color, images, tables, and some useful links.

Notice at the bottom you have three display mode options: Design (design), Split (design & source code), and Source (source code).

See this newly created website with Opera browser.

Toolbar

This is a detailed look at the area of ??KompoZer's toolbars. You can customize the toolbars if you want.

There are two different toolbars in KompoZer. The first image is from the toolbar above.

The second image is of the lower toolbar (occupying two lines).

Menu

KompoZer has quite standard menus, you can view the File and Edit menu.

And here is the View menu and Insert menu.

Next is the Format and Table menu.

And finally, the Tools menu and the Help menu. Note that you can access an external text editor via the Tools menu.

Option

In ' General Area ' you can make any necessary changes or modifications to Recent Pages Menu, save / publish, CSS / edit tables and manage web pages.

Define the default font and size in the ' Fonts ' area.

Default settings like text / color links, background, and character sets for your new site in the ' New Page Settings ' area.

Make any necessary modifications you desire for items such as proxies, markup, and special characters in the ' Advanced ' area.

Change any settings if needed for the app and the area file extension ' Applications '.

Conclude

If you are looking for a good and basic website editor to start with creating websites then KompoZer is definitely a program worth considering.