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What are the best WYSIWYG responsive website design tools?

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Here’s the Deal

11 Options Considered

Best WYSIWYG responsive website design tools	Price	Platforms	License
-- Webflow	-	-	-
-- Vim	-	Linux, macOS, Windows	GPL
-- Node.js	-	-	-
-- BlueGriffon	-	-	-
-- Dreamweaver	-	-	-

Webflow

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Top Pro

Collaborative development support

Webflow allows workload to be shared among multiple users. See More

Top Con

Can't export your site for deployment unless you pay.

Not unreasonable, but something users should know before investing their time. See More

Top Pro

W3C-compliant HTML5/CSS3

Webflow generates W3C-compliant markup and stylesheets. See More

Top Con

Design tool is web-based, not a proper application.

The site doesn't state this explicitly. See More

Top Pro

Responsive web design with Bootstrap

Because it's based on Bootstrap, it works across all modern browsers & devices. See More

Top Con

Fixed media queries

Webflow has four fixed breakpoints (desktop, laptop, mobile landscape & mobile portrait). The inability to set your own media queries can be limiting. If your layout breaks outside of these four options, you have to export the code and write them yourself. See More

Vim

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Specs

Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows

Cross Platform:Yes

Node.js

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BlueGriffon

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Dreamweaver

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Pinegrow

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Drag and drop

Pinegrow has very nice drag and drop features which allow you to build any layout in just minutes. See More

Top Con

Pricey

$120 for the full package and yearly renewal, See More

PhilosophicalNyx's Experience

It is comfortable to design simple pages. Easy to use, fast, and simple. That is fast answer. See More

Top Pro

Can work alongside a code editor

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Quickly build websites with Blocks

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Responsive web

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Pinegrow loves the code

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Multi-page editing

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WordPress theme builder

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Live code editing

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Supports multiple frameworks

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Realtime preview

You can see the screen preview at real time. No need to click [Preview] button. See More

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Reasonably priced

Not free as the main con says, but the cost is fair; and it's okay to encourage a company that produces a quality tool at a very reasonable price. See More

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Supports top front-end frameworks

Bootstrap, Foundation, Materialize, etc. Also many other frameworks, languages, etc. See More

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Multi platform desktop software

Windows, Mac & Linux. 32 / 64 bit. See More

Microsoft Word

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Wiki, tex, latex...

Office plugin and add on support for many languages, output, etc. Mixed format and nested pages are a breeze. Still supports text boxes in html (for Linux/unix/*nix text browsers). See More

Top Con

End result may need extra work

There’s no doubt here. Word works for manual coders who want to skip a bunch of steps. I’ve had good results most of the time but have not yet ever had a final save from word that didn’t need atleast a few fixes by hand See More

lostinlodos's Experience

I know: stick with me here for a moment. 2016 via office 365 and the linked software can actually work. Word 2016 supports a subset of html 5. If all you want is a webpage or blog without the bells and whistles this remains one of the easiest wysiwyg applications. Just remember to save as a filtered web page and I suggest running the results through notepad++ with the code fix plugin once to catch any Microsoft nuances. See More

Top Pro

Small toolset

If you want a minimalist website, this is how to do it See More

Top Con

Small toolset

If you want anything beyond a late 90s/early 2000s basic site look elsewhere. See More

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No learning curve

If you know any of the big office suites you can master word, and web design, rather quickly See More

Top Con

Limited use

There is nothing fancy or interactive about results from word. See More

Top Pro

Easy

Long has word been a quick and easy web page designer See More

Froont

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Free for public websites

Froont is free for anyone with a public website. This means you agree to your project being shared on the Froont website, where other Froont users may use the design. See More

Top Con

Very Unstable - Keep Getting 404 Errors and Incomplete Pages

Was trying out Froont after using Macaw. On the first day, I lost my project to the dreaded 404 Not Found error. I created another project and downloaded the files in the .zip format and ran it from my local machine which, for some reason, decided to not load any images. Plus it adds an irritating "Made with <3 and Froont" which elongates the web page and causes the UI to scroll which I did not want in my project. Overall a bad idea! See More

Top Con

Browser-Based

Froont is a web app that runs in your browser - not a full desktop application. While the developer touts this as a 'feature', web apps cannot be as full-featured - nor as stable - as desktop apps (specially when dealing with projects that might be large, or complex). See More

Top Con

Buggy auto-save

Froont does not provide users with a way to save work, instead making you rely on the auto-save feature that saves every minute. However it's been known to be buggy and not save progress. See More

Mobirise

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Macaw

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Discontinued

Macaw was acquired by InVision. Last version, 1.6, released in January 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website. See More

Top Pro

Well designed UI

Macaw has a very intuitive, user-friendly interface. See More

Top Con

No Unix like OS provided

Limited only for Windows & Mac OS X. See More

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Sets up a local preview server

Macaw provides a local preview server, allowing you to access your project from any device in the local network. See More

Top Con

Young and evolving project

Macaw was only released to the public in March of 2014. It's been under rapid changes since it's release, which includes product separation. See More

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Cross platform

Works on Windows and Mac OS X. See More

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