25 years ago the Web was built by hand, using impressive desktop GUI tools with offline templating and built-in web refactoring. This was the bees knees back then, believe me.

Todays CMSes have largely pushed away the offline static web development, but static WYSIWYG web editors still enjoy their little niche. If you know what you’re doing and don’t need that much of a dynamic live backend for your web presence, they are a very resilient, safe, wicked fast, fault-tolerant and notably easy to develop for option for all things Web.

Here’s a list of static Web Editors alive and kicking in late 2024 – definitely worth a look:

• Dreamweaver
  This classic is still around, believe it or not.
  
  
• CoffeCup SiteDesigner
  A completly Web-tech based desktop editor for the static web.
  
  
• Pinegrow
  My personal favorite if you want to professionally develop static and offline.
  
  
• Bootstrap Studio
  This one relies on the Bootstrap Web frontend framework for doing things, but is a full-blown WSYIWYG editor none-the-less.
  
  
• Publii
  A modern, full-blown offline desktop GUI-tool for static Web development. It’s built with modern Jamstack Web-technologies and runs on Electron.
  
  
• Phoenix Code
  Not quite drag+drop WYSIWYG, but still live instant preview for your code. Interesting. Sort of a mixed breed of Web code editor and visual tool.
  
  
• RapidWeaver
  macOS only. A classic rich-client GUI tool.
  
  
• RocketCake
  Strong old-school late 90ies/early 2000s vibes with this GUI. But it’s free these days, so maybe worth a try(?).