| Hey DoughtyOne, I started playing with the free software KompoZer and -- right out the box -- it seems very attractive. Thanks for this recommendation. I have been using MS Expression Web 4.0 which is free, but it's design is cumbersome. Kompozer seems far more intuitive -- the feel of a plain text editor, but the strength of a full HTML editor. And Komposer has a feature I suspect a lot of newer HTML editing software don't: an ability to create code in Free Republic-friendly HTML element coding as opposed to CSS code. Before I first started posting on FR last year, I had not really worked with HTML element code because it's older and deprecated. Think of deprecated as the globalist way of killing HTML element coding because they consider it ugly and non-standard. Fact is, so many web page still use HTML element styling that browser-makers are simply forced to keep supporting it. My guess is that FR uses HTML element styling because there are less security issues and it's easier for the FR posting wizard to translate. Here's the difference at the coding level: Sample Text To render the text above, a modern HTML editor will create the following inline CSS styling code:
But unfortunately while this CSS code works in all browsers, it is not used by FR. Instead, the simpler-to-translate HTML element styling is used and is coded like this:
Bottom line: if you're doing anything fancy in your FR posts and comments -- tables, images, sizes, fonts, colors, etc. -- KompoZer will save you some time in reduced manual coding. One other important thing I noticed: you have to tell KompoZer that you want to compose a page in Free Republic format. You do that by unchecking a setting on the Tools:Options page. See the image below:
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