What Is Kompozer ?
KompoZer is a free WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.
KompoZer is an open source free web page editor, but has all the same features as expensive high end products such as Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end expensive programs

When you want to create a new webpage in HTML, you can just create an HTML document containing HTML tags and text by using a normal text editor.

However it is not easy to see how the page will appear on the web without actually invoking it in a web browser.

Kompozer is instead a visual editor that allows you to work in separate windows on the HTML text or on the visual page. You will be able to see visually how the page will be presented to your user.

Kompozer , powered by Gecko 1.9.3
How to Use Kompozer
KompoZer is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor, which means that you create your page in a word processor-like interface. The HTML coding is done automatically in the background by the software.

You can view and edit the HTML code and the results of your changes will automatically appear in visual page

You can view your web page in 4 different modes: Normal, HTML, Source and Preview mode. The modes can be easily chosen by selecting the tabs at the bottom of the screen: Normal, HTML, Source and Preview.

As with your normal word processor, you’ll notice the tool bar near the top of the screen with buttons, that allow you to edit your text style, your text colour or size, run a spell check on your current content, add images from your hard drive to your new web page and much more.
The tool bar allows you also to insert tables or form into your web page and to define links.
You can easily add a link by selecting the text or image that you would like to turn into a link, and then entering the link url in the box called link location.

How to Install Kompozer

You can download a Kompozer installer from the Kompozer.net website. You will find different installers for Windows, Mac OS X a,d Linux and you can choose a language (English or other languages.)

The downloaded zip file, must then be unzipped. You will find a kompozer file that you should double click. That get’s the program up and running.

You can find plenty of useful information in the Kompozer.net website.

Conclusions
Kompozer is a useful tool for every Website designer.