Suggestions for WYSIWYG editor for web-based data-entry screens?

I don't have a lot of experience developing web-based data entry software, but comparative to Oracle Forms, Visual Studio, and various 4th generation languages, creating the user interface layout used to be a snap.

It seemsl ike these days开发者_StackOverflow中文版, just creating the user interface for developing web applications is a huge pain in the butt. Just trying to get your text entry fields and widgets to go where they are supposed to is extremely painful, and requires you to know JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, HTML, etc. There has to be an easier way to develop data entry forms that produce the needed, underlying code for a webpage.

Am I just not looking in the right place? It seems like there must be some kind of WYSIWYG GUI development tools out there for developing data-entry forms.

Can anyone give me some good suggestions?

C# used with ASP.NET is strong in this area, but there is a learning curve to overcome. You can get the free versions by downloading the latest Visual Studio Express from Microsoft. The catch is that you are stuck with Windows for development, for better or worse. Visual Studio only runs on Windows.

Most web frameworks handle form generation for you. If yours doesn't then there are easily a dozen others that you can pick up for no money.

Dreamweaver. That's about the best WYSIWYG you're going to find.

http://www.sencha.com/ Ext JS is a Cross-browser JavaScript framework for rich web apps.

it also has a gui to create the interfaces. That gui app is not free.