BlueGriffon 3.x
BlueGriffon has serious problems on recent versions of macOS, the authors don't appear to react on bugreports. So we stopped making BlueGriffon available via the Self-Service.
What is 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. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards.
It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS 2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko.
BlueGriffon also includes SVG-edit, an XUL-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to Firefox and was adapted to BlueGriffon.
It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS 2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko.
BlueGriffon also includes SVG-edit, an XUL-based editor for SVG that is originally distributed as an add-on to Firefox and was adapted to BlueGriffon.
How to install BlueGriffon?
BlueGriffon is available on the Mac Self-Service
How to use BlueGriffon ?
BlueGriffon is very intuitive to use, quite similar to your favourite text editor as What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG).
Nevertheless, a bunch of useful tutorial are available online here:
- BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Design a Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 1)
- How to Add Pictures and a Site Logo to Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 2)
- How to Change Fonts and Customize the Text on Your Web Page with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 3)
- How to Change the Background Colour of Your Web Page in BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 4)
- How to Make Text and Images into Clickable Links with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 5)
- How to Add a Navigation Menu to Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 6)
- How to Create Multiple Pages for Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 7)
- How to Publish (Upload) Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 8)
- How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3 (Chapter 9)
The user manual is available online, only for CERN users, here
What are the differences between the free version and the commercial one ?
BlueGriffon is availabe in 3 different flavors: Free, Basic, Epub.
We are actually providing the Free version in the self-service and we believe that it will cover the major part of user's needs.
Nevertheless, if you are interested in another edition, you can contact service-desk@cern.ch for more informations.
The Basic version add :
- The user's manual
- Responsive design
- 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
The Epub edition add all the necessary features to produce quality Epub contents:
- EPUB 2
- EPUB 3.0
- EPUB 3.1
- full metadata editing support for EPUB 2, 3 and 3.1
- copy/paste between EPUB and all flavors of html
Resources
More informations about BlueGriffon are available there: www.bluegriffon.org and there https://bluegriffon.web.cern.ch/