The application is offered in three variants: the freeware version has essential WYSIWIG editor features the Basic version (75 euros) adds a lot of tasteful features including dedicated editors for CSS styles and MathML formulas, code snippets, a mobile version preview tool, project manager and a bunch of handful pro-level tools. The interface has a sane layout and feels close to an average word processor, except maybe for the default dark theme BlueGriffon uses.

BlueGriffon is certainly a more advanced tool in all regards and it can serve as an HTML editor for complex web sites. BluegriffonīlueGriffon can be an HTML editor for complex web sites (Image credit: Blue Griffon)īlueGriffon (opens in new tab) is a web editor built around the Mozilla Firefox rendering engine but this is perhaps the only thing it has in common with Seamonkey. Every feature sits in the right place and therefore exploring the possibilities of the Quanta editor is never troublesome. Thanks to the traditional interface layout of Quanta Plus, there are dozens of advanced features here and there, yet it is unlikely that a user will get lost.

Most of the other tools are also easy to find. The Tags menu offers a sorted catalogue of frequently used tags and is ideal for quick tag look-up. It is still assumed that a Quanta user is expected to code by hand but there are many tools to support you with this in Quanta. The editor sports a tabbed interface and allows for working with text styles, tables, lists, forms and scripts. Though a bit old-fashioned, Quanta has proven to be a viable choice for the present-day web project. Anyhow, it is still possible to install Quanta in a modern Linux distribution and benefit from its rich set of features. However, the original Quanta Plus project lives on under the patronage of Trinity Desktop Environmen (opens in new tab)t (TDE), a community effort for maintaining KDE3. The famous Quanta Plus application was an integrated IDE specifically tailored for web designers and developers but later on it was absorbed by KDevelop (opens in new tab), an even more powerful cross-platform IDE. Quanta (opens in new tab) is perhaps a less known piece of web development software nowadays, but it was a number one choice not so long ago. Quanta may not be as popular as it once was, but is a good choice for those who code by hand (Image credit: Quanta)

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