On the other hand, one of BlueGriffon strengths is the add-ons: the most obvious one is the free FireFTP add-on to easily publish your page from BlueGriffon. Let’s hope that BlueGriffon documentation will improve with time, starting by offering a few walk-throughs on creating new pages and sites and developing its forum. However, if you’re a beginner in website coding, you may find yourself stuck at some point without much help available. If you have previously used any decent web building tool or if you want to build a fairly basic page, this should not be too much of a problem. For example, it is easy enough to change a font colour or adjust the style of a border but, while the style properties organises the numerous style options quite neatly, most of the style options available would probably not be understood immediately by novices: this makes BlueGriffon more adapted to intermediate coders.Īnother drawback of BlueGriffon if you start building your first website layout is the lack of proper (offline or online) documentation yet. Several web pages can remain open in multiple tabs, which makes it easy to quickly switch from one document to another, copy and paste, etcĪdjusting styles can be done through the style properties panel, which would require some coding knowledge for most functions other than the most basic ones though. Switching from WYSIWYG view (where you can arrange objects visually) to the web page source code (where you can manipulate the web page by editing the HTML code) is done by clicking on the two buttons at the bottom of the page. Icons to the most common options are clearly laid out: adding a table, a single image or a thumbnail linking to a large image, a link, a video, an audio file or a form to a web page is easy. The interface is intuitive and almost basic at first, as it closely mimics a word processor toolbar layout. Like its predecessor, NVU, BlueGriffon provides an easy to use interface and includes all the most common options to build web pages that comply with the W3C’s web standards (HTML 4, XHTML 1.0, HTML 5 or XHTML 5 / CSS 2.1 and parts of CSS3 already implemented by Gecko).Ī handy wizard guides users to set up their canvas, starting with selecting the document type, filling in data for the property, picking the colours, adding a background image, and deciding on the page layouts.
BLUEGRIFFON REVIEW PORTABLE
There is also a portable version (for Windows only).
BLUEGRIFFON REVIEW MAC OS X
It is cross-platform with versions for Windows XP and Windows 7, Mac OS X and popular Linux distros.
BlueGriffon is a free WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor powered by Gecko, the rendering engine inside Firefox.
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