Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:05 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> Two approches:
> 1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the
> Save As XHTML
> feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for
> a quick
> page. However,
> 2. For creating an intricate web site, or a series of web
> pages, Learn
> XHTML, CSS, and perhaps javascript. Code it from scratch in
> nano, Kate,
> Gedit, whatever, because there is no WYSIWYG editor currently
> in
> existence that does everything to quality. I.E. things do not
> render
> currectly cross-platform or cross-browser, pieces of code do
> not
> validate, or perhaps the sources are simply unorganized.
> 3. If you simply *must* ignore 2, try NVU (which is based on
> the
> original Mozilla Composer). You don't have my blessing.
> My friend says that DW has a "template" feature that automatizes
> building a website. How would you do that without DW?
>
> I don't know DW, I don't know web designing, but I suspect that this
> is what CSS is for, isn't it?
>
> Again, how would you build a large website of similar pages?
> --
> Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
DreamWeaver does have a template function, which sort-of automates
things. To me, it produces really ugly markup with the template tags...
but whatever. I do know that AbiWord has AbiWord Templates, abt files I
think, but don't quote me.
I just opened the Mozilla Composer and it doesn't have any kind of
template feature. I don't know about NVU, but I would imagine it has
something similar, but better.
Links for you and your friend. Note that the download page features a
deb files that should work with Debian Stable. I'm installing now.
http://www.nvu.com/
http://www.nvu.com/download.php
http://www.nvu.com/features.php
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Matthew K Poer
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