Dreamweaver is a fantastic tool for web developers. But nowadays several open source alternative HTML editors providing features much similar to Dreamweaver are available and these open source alternatives will be a boon to every web designer. So here I provide a list of Open Source dreamweaver alternatives to help web designers choose an open source HTML editior of their choice.

1. SeaMonkey

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept.

2. Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user extensibility.

3. CSSED

Cssed is a small developer editor and validator, that tries to ease the CSS editing. It is an Open Source project, it means that you can download the program but also its source.

4. OPEN BEXI HTML Builder

OPENBEXI is a WYSIWYG HTML WEB editor which allows you to create Web pages, generate HTML code without any HTML knowledges. Powerful FCK,fisheyes,DOJO,tables, forms, medias, timelines, charts editors let you create, update,re-size,remove HTML components.

5. Bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

6. Matizha Sublime

Matizha Sublime 3 is a tool of choice for any webmaster serious about creating web pages. First a powerful HTML editor, it can also work in conjunction with a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, in English), so visual.

7. First Page HTML Editor

1st Page 2000 is a professional HTML editor / website builder which lets you create great websites fast! The visually appealing program comes bundled with over 450+ Javascripts and supports all the latest web languages.

8. Selida

Selida is an HTML editor, a program that you make web pages with. There are thousands of HTML editors on the web, some are free and some are shareware. Selida packs high end features in a very intuitive interface, and has the best price of them all: It s free!

9. WYMeditor: web-based XHTML editor

WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).

10. KompoZer

Ecommerce Web Design KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

11. Amaya

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment.

12. Aptana

Aptana is the leader in web application development, deployment and management solutions. RadRails is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with tight integration with Aptana Cloud services.

13. NVU

NVU – Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.