BlueGriffon®
BlueGriffon is a WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. It is based on the discontinued Nvu editor, which in turn is based on the Composer component of the Mozilla Application Suite, which was previously known as Netscape Composer, which was bundled with Netscape Gold before it was renamed to Netscape Communicator. Download our 100% free templates built for the Elementor page builder. More than 600+ page, section, and theme builder templates included. Free for both personal and commercial projects. Download locations for BlueGriffon 1.7.2, Downloads: 291, Size: 22.97 MB. WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Bluegriffon Download.
The next-gen Web and EPUB Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox®
Version 3.1 released 2019-oct-14.
OCR!
« My HTML Editor is BlueGriffon, an intuitive, modern and robust application.
I like that what I see is what I get on the Web. »
Jeff Jaffe, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
« The HTML Editor I'm Using Today? BlueGriffon »
Nick Longo, author of CoffeeCup, the very first HTML Editor
« Dear @BlueGriffonApp , you saved my a$$ once again »
Tristan Nitot, former President of Mozilla Europe
What's inside?
BlueGriffon® has a long list of famous ancestors and proudly inherits from all of them: Netscape®, Mozilla® Composer and Nvu. It is powered by Gecko, the same rendering engine you can find at the heart of Firefox®, and is filled with tons of powerful features:
without license | Basic license | EPUB license | |
Native standalone Windows, MacOS X and Linux app | |||
Black and Light themes | |||
HTML 4 | |||
XHTML 1.0 | |||
XHTML 1.1 | |||
html 5 (html) including audio, video and forms | |||
html 5 (xml) including audio, video and forms | |||
copy/paste between all flavors of html | |||
OCR | |||
Responsive Design | |||
CSS 3 including 2D and 3D Transformations, Transitions, Shadows, Columns, Font Features and more | |||
CSS Variables | |||
CSS Grids | |||
SVG | |||
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 | |||
WAI-ARIA 1.1 | |||
DPUB-ARIA 1.0 | |||
Opquast® Accessibility First Step | |||
Wysiwyg Authoring | |||
Editable source view | |||
Editable @media print view | |||
Dual View (Source + Wysiwyg in sync) | |||
User Interface in 20 languages | |||
Modifyable menu and button keyboard shortcuts | |||
Style Properties panel | |||
DOM Explorer panel | |||
Script Editor panel | |||
Stylesheets Manager panel | |||
Table of Contents with one-click update | |||
Markdown support | |||
FontSquirrel font manager | |||
Google Fonts font manager | |||
User's Manual | |||
EPUB 2 | |||
EPUB 3.0.1 | |||
EPUB 3.1 | |||
full metadata editing support for EPUB 2, 3 and 3.1 | |||
copy/paste between EPUB and all flavors of html | |||
Fullscreen mode | |||
CSS Editor Pro with Media Queries, CSS Variables and even a visual CSS Selector editor! | |||
Table Layout Manager with 44 predefined layouts, all strictly CSS-based | |||
Toolkit Manager for one-click insertion of multiple JavaScript/CSS files | |||
MathML Editor panel (based on ASCIIMathML) | |||
Code Snippets panel | |||
One-Click Templates Manager with ~2,500 free templates | |||
Mobile Viewer | |||
EyeDropper, a colorpicker allowing to select a color from anywhere on screen(s) (Windows and Linux only) | |||
PUTter, to publish a document and the local resources attached to that document through HTTP PUT | |||
Thumbnail manager | |||
Word count warnings | |||
Project Manager |
BlueGriffon® is used by millions of users around the world, including Universities, Governments and even the European Parliament. It is officially recommended by the French Government as the Web Authoring Tool for the French Administration in its effort to rely on and promote Free Software (Socle Interministériel de Logiciels Libres).
Some screenshots from the OS X version.
The current Web page was of course created with BlueGriffon...
BlueGriffon editing one of the Media Queries of a responsive Web site
BlueGriffon® editing an EPUB 3.1 version of Melville's Moby Dick
Editing EPUB 3.1 metadata
Editing EPUB 2 metadata
CSS Selector visual builder
Templates manager with ~2,500 free templates
Our CSS Editor Pro with our own CSS Parser and CSS Serializer.
Download BlueGriffon® 3.1
Some features of BlueGriffon® 3.1 are only available if you buy a license.
A License bought for any v2.x works with this v3.1.
A License bought for BlueGriffon EPUB Edition works with this v3.1.
Windows 7, 8, 10 (installer, 64bits) | OS X >= 10.10 (dmg, 64bits) | Ubuntu 16.04 (tar.bz2, 64 bits) |
(zip file) | (deb file) | |
checksums | ||
Starting with v3.1, BlueGriffon is available only for 64bits on all platforms. | ||
English (USA), Čeština, Deutsch, Español (Castellano), Suomi, Français (France), Galego, עברית, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Nederlands, Polski, Русский, Slovenščina, Svenska, 中文 (简化字), 中文 (繁體字), Magyar, српски. |
We are sorry but we don't support versions of Windows older than Windows 7, versions of OS X older than 10.10 (Yosemite) and the only Linux distribution we officially support is Ubuntu. BlueGriffon® may run on older and other operating systems but we won't accept any bug report on those systems if it doesn't.
Alternatively, you can build BlueGriffon® directly from our github repository but only our official builds can enable the extra features described above with a license key.
Buy it
Warning: EU VAT fraud control enabled; purchases withinconsistent EU VAT data will be blocked for review and
potentially cancelled/reimbursed.
To install the software itself, just download it from the current website.
One license of BlueGriffon® is for a single user on a single computer. You can always de-activate an already activated license to switch user/computer.
Bluegriffon Templates Manager
If you have a discount code, you'll be able to use it clicking on the 'Get a code?' text in the Shopping Cart panel.
After purchase, you will receive from us a very important message by email so please make sure your antispam allows emails from noreply@sendowl.com
before purchase. The message contains a download link to the User's Manual, a Transaction ID and a License Key. You will need both the Transaction ID and the License Key to activate your license of BlueGriffon® through the Preferences panel of the application. Please make sure to backup the message you received from us!
IMPORTANT: If you buy multiple licenses of the same type (Basic or EPUB) from the same shopping cart, you will receive one single license key and one transaction ID; they are valid for all your users. If you absolutely need multiple license keys, please buy them one by one. Thanks.
Purchases are processed by our partner SendOwl and through Stripe or PayPal. PayPal lets you pay using your PayPal account if you have one or all major credit/debit cards if you don't.
Customers in Turkey: PayPal recently ceased operations in your country, please contact us directly if you hit issues purchasing our product.
Volume (>= 10) and OEM discounts available, please contact us.
To upgrade a Basic License to a EPUB License, please contact us.
Extras
We have some free dictionaries for BlueGriffon 3.1's spellchecker.
FireFtp is a free add-on for BlueGriffon 3.x.
Warning: FireFtp was updated for 3.0; please download and install again if you already had FireFtp installed.
Installation Instructions:
- save the
*.xpi
file onto your hard disk. If you're using Firefox, it's normal if Firefox can't install it, these add-ons are for BlueGriffon, not for Firefox... - launch BlueGriffon 3.x
- open the Add-ons Manager through the Tools > Add-ons menu entry
- select the Extensions tab
- click on the button at the left (or right if you use an hebraic or arabic version of BlueGriffon) of the Search field at the top the window
- select the 'Install Add-on from File...' entry
- select the
*.xpi
file you just downloaded and saved from our web site - a dialog appears, click on the Install button at the end of the three seconds delay
- the newly installed add-on now appears in the list of installed add-on...
- you must click on the 'Restart Now' link in the window, or quit and relaunch BlueGriffon to activate your new add-on
User's Manual
We sell our User's Manual because selling it allows us to keep improving BlueGriffon, a software that is and will remain Open Source. Please note that buyers of BlueGriffon licenses get the User's Manual for free with their purchase. Please note the manual is not open source or redistributable.
This manual is delivered in PDF format (with hyperlinks), has more than a hundred pages and is in english. Warning, this is the User's Manual for BlueGriffon, not a HTML, CSS or EPUB tutorial. The most complex CSS features of BlueGriffon will be explained in the Manual, but we won't explain there in details how works for instance the font-family
CSS property...
Purchasers of this Manual will receive free updates of the Manual for life, all updates, minor or major, following the evolution of the editor BlueGriffon itself.
Contact us
You can contact us by email at info@disruptive-innovations.com or follow us on Twitter.
Support
Please file all bugs, suggestions and requests in our Bugzilla.
Product is 'BlueGriffon', please write in english.
Bluegriffon One Click Templates
FAQ
- Can I pay in US$ or another currency than Euros ?
PayPal will automatically convert our prices in Euros to a price in the currency your PayPal account is using.
- What's SendOwl?
They're our Shopping Basket processor.
By the way, SendOwnl never sees your Credit Card information when you purchase from us. We don't see them either, of course. The payment is processed by Stripe or Paypal. We only deal with the shopping basket, through SendOwl.
- What are the 'Taxes' I see when I order the product?
It's VAT and it's only added to purchases made by european individuals and companies. That's absolutely mandatory, since we're also based in Europe. Nothing we can do about it, sorry.
It does not apply to customers outside of the European Union.
Since the 1st of January 2015, European VAT is based on the location of the buyer, not the seller's. That's why the VAT rate applied to our products for two customers based in two different european countries can differ. That's a EU Directive and there's nothing we can do about it. That's also why we don't show the price with VAT before you select your country of residence during checkout...
- I purchased a license and all I got is a link to the User's Manual, a license key and a transaction ID, no software ?
That's totally normal. BlueGriffon® is a free download. Install it and enter your license information through the Preferences panel to enable the commercial features.
- What happened to the Add-ons? What happens if I still use a version of BlueGriffon with add-ons?
Our previous line of add-ons was discontinued and add-ons made for versions of BlueGriffon older than 2.0 will NOT work with this version 3.1... It is then HIGHLY recommended to delete your pre-2.0 profile that is in
~/Library/Application Support/BlueGriffon
on OSX,AppData/Roaming/Disruptive Innovations SARL
on Windows and~/.disruptive innovations sarl
on Linux) OR, even better, create another profile (see the User's Manual). - I lost my license key and/or transaction ID or I can't activate my license, can you help ?
Yes. Please contact us by email and be ready to answer some questions before we send you back your credentials. If you could provide us with your Transaction ID, that will save some time and emails.
- What's the difference between BlueGriffon and BlueGriffon EPUB Edition?
The Web editor and the EPUB editor used to be two different products. We merged the two products into one starting with version 2.2.
- How will you notify us about future versions?
BlueGriffon® makes a very simple call home when you launch it to check if a new version is available. An alert will show up if that's the case. You can tweak this behavior in the Updates section of the Preferences panel.
- What's your Privacy Policy about that call?
Let's state it very clearly: the only data we store about BlueGriffon® and coming from you (besides your purchase order itself) are of two kinds:
- When the application activates or verifies a license, it sends us your license information and an application ID. Nothing more. We don't store these calls at all. Never.
- When it checks if a new version is available, it sends us the date of the request, the version of BlueGriffon you're currently using and the appID mentioned just above. We store only the date and the version number. Absolutely nothing more. We do not aggregate these data with our license database. And we do that only for global statistics.
We do not store and will never store your IP address or even the operating system you're using, BlueGriffon does not transmit and will never transmit your identity, language, information about the documents you're creating/editing, etc..
Be sure we care as much about privacy as you do.
- Who are you ?
BlueGriffon® is a product of Disruptive Innovations SAS, a French software company founded in October 2003. Based in Saint-Germain en Laye, France, Disruptive Innovations SAS delivered in the past premium products like the popular editor Nvu (www.nvu.com) to Linspire Inc., its indirect successor the BlueGriffon Web editor (http://bluegriffon.org) and BlueGriffon EPUB Edition (http://www.bluegriffon-epubedition.com), or the XML editor Etna to the Connexions Project (www.cnx.rice.edu).
You can contact us at european business hours by email at
info@disruptive-innovations.com
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Formerly owned by Macromedia, but now part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, millions of developers have used Dreamweaver to develop basic sites, while others have used it to create some of the most complex sites known to the Internet.
While Dreamweaver used to be accessible to everyone - the hobbyist right up to the web design professional - right now, it is not the cheapest of solutions. To get access to the single app, an annual plan (paid monthly) costs $19.99 per month, while a standard monthly plan costs $29.99. The cheapest it gets is an annual fee of US$239.88 per year.
While Dreamweaver has all the bells and whistles you could possibly need, the cost makes it prohibitively expensive for many. And as most designers only use a fraction of its capabilities, some might not be able to justify the expense.
But never fear… If Dreamweaver is beyond your reach there are still some great free WYSIWYG alternatives available for you to use.
To make sure you have the latest information, we’re going to revisit the five solutions we looked at back in 2013 to see what has happened to them over the last few years.
We are also going to add some more solutions that we think are also worthy of note.
1. Microsoft's Expression Web 4.0
Expression 4.0 has been pulled into Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and the last update of the standalone solution (4.0.1460.0) was on December 20, 2012.
While a free download is still available, it seems this project has gone as far as it is likely to go. That said, it’s still free and still an excellent Dreamweaver alternative.
Expression 4.0 is very reminiscent of some of the earlier Dreamweaver versions so if you’ve been using Dreamweaver for a long time, it might prove pretty intuitive. It provides customizable toolbars and offers design and code views. Like Dreamweaver it allows you to look design and code at the same time when required.
With HTML 5 capability Expression caters for the latest design options and with a CSS Properties Palette, CSS management is relatively straightforward. Likewise, it makes light work of positioning graphics.
Currently there is no support for this free download and the tutorials that were available on the Microsoft site seem to have been removed. However, a good selection of tutorials are still available on the Internet.
2. KOMPOZER
A Mozilla project, the last stable update of KompoZer (0.7.10) was in 2007, suggesting like Expression 4.0, this project has run its course. However, also like Expression, KompoZer is still free as a download.
A fully WYSIWYG editor, KompoZer is Windows compatible and comparable to Dreamweaver except that it doesn’t allow server-side scripting. Like Dreamweaver, KompoZer allows you to create templates. And also like Dreamweaver, it’s possible to open any number of pages simultaneously.
KompoZer offers a CSS editor and an HTML validator and as a result, the sites it creates are compatible with modern browsers.
If you want a Dreamweaver alternative without all the bells and whistles, this might be an option.
3. BlueGriffon
The last update of BlueGriffon was released in February 2017 and so this project is still alive and kicking. Powered by Gecko, it is an Open Source solution billed as an “an intuitive, modern and robust application”.
The project website also describes BlueGriffon as a “next-gen Web and EPUB Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox” with elements inherited from “famous ancestors” such as Netscape, Composer and Nvu. So, as you can see, it has a very solid pedigree.
Native standalone versions are available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux with HTML 4 and HTML 5 supported. It supports CSS 3 including 2D and 3D transformations, transitions, shadows, columns, and font features. However, some features of the latest update (BlueGriffon 2.3.1) are only available after purchasing a license, and that can cost 69.99 euros ($75) or 195 euros ($206) so you need to look carefully at what’s on offer. However, the free version is still likely to meet most people’s needs.
4. Aloha Editor
While the original version is still available, since we first looked at it Aloha Editor has morphed into Aloha Editor 2. The developers called it a day with Aloha Editor 2, but “Aloha Editor 1 is not affected by this decision and will continue to be supported and developed”.
The last stable Aloha Editor 1 release was 1.4.27 which happened 21 March 2017, so it remains pretty current.
Offering HTML5 editing it is compatible with current browsers and it features a 'floating' toolbar that alters depending on which part of your site you are working on.
It is an extremely viable Dreamweaver alternative.
5. Amaya Home Page
The last stable release of Amaya Home Page was version 11.4.4 in January 2012 so here’s another project that has reached the end of the road.
It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and SVG, but these might be a bit dated if you need a site with a really modern design.
Amaya does though offer HTML, CSS and XML validators, validating HTML as you create your site. A tree structure is also available, as is a 'Page Preview' function.
Of all the solutions we looked at, this might now be a little dated for modern needs.
As promised here are five more great free WYSIWYG alternatives to Dreamweaver:
6. Seamonkey
Initially released in 2005, the SeaMonkey Project was around well before our original article was written, but with version 2.46 released on December 22, 2016, it has grown from strength to strength over the years.
An Open Source solution, SeaMonkey originated as a Mozilla project – that’s right, the Firefox people. It was ultimately taken over as a “community continuation” and the suite you download now includes ‘Composer’ – the tool that you use for website design.
Although Composer will be not be developed any further, it receives maintenance updates and is still a good choice, especially for anyone learning HTML for the first time.
SeaMonkey addresses areas like HTML5 and is available in 26 languages on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Certainly not as sophisticated as Dreamweaver, but it delivers and represents a viable option.
7. Trellian WebPage 4.2
Initially released in 2006, Trellian Webpage is another solution that remains supported and much loved.
For a free software, it is quite powerful, offering a ‘drag & drop’ interface and support for current Internet technologies.
With a user-friendly interface, Trellian Webpage boasts a built-in spellchecker. It also features easy-to-use resampling tools and allows users to easily “create search engine friendly pages”.
Another good alternative for anyone who thinks Dreamweaver might be beyond their website’s requirements.
8. openElement
While the last stable release of openElement (version 1.47.3) was release January 21, 2014, this remains fully supported and a powerful tool.
This WYSIWYG software offers a very intuitive interface and caters for technologies like HTML5 and CSS3.
openElement is important because it focuses on enabling users to create websites with the responsive designs that look good on any device (PC, mobile, or tablet) and are vital for good SEO.
Powered by Chromium, it caters for multilingual websites and offers reusable styles and element packs.
9. Google Web Designer
Technically still in Beta (you know how Google does things), Google Web Designer is a genuinely good solution that gives you everything you want from a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
While the last release date was November 2015, it is still fully supported, and being a Google product could potentially offer an SEO edge.
Totally freeware, it offers a number of work spaces: Design View, Code View, and a Preview space that lets you look at what you have created through Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
Another benefit of Google Web Designer is it allows you to craft Google Ads and create and edit CSS, JavaScript and XML files.
It probably offers as much as you need for your website and is therefore worth considering.
10. TOWeb
While the last version of TOWeb (version 5.29) was released late 2015, this software is still supported and maintained, and it packs a punch as far as free WYSIWYG software is concerned.
Like other solutions TOWeb has HTML 5 and CSS 3 covered, but more importantly, it also has a strong leaning towards enabling users to create ‘responsive’ website designs.
TOWeb provides a number of templates which users edit and revamp to design the responsive website they need.
While TOWeb has paid ‘premium’, ‘ecommerce’ and ‘studio’ packages available, the free version is powerful enough for most people’s needs.