Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver
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Matthew K Poer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:11 -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
>> 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?
>> This depends on the Web host. Some hosts offer scripting languages like
>> Perl, PHP, etc.
>>
>> In my case, I was able to make my switch from Dreamweaver easier by
>> using PHP includes at the top and bottom of my page content. These
>> includes contained the HTML that was common to all of the pages on my
>> site. The benefit of this was that there was very little duplication of
>> HTML code, and that's always a good thing.
>>
>> Also, the Web content editors would work only with the main content of
>> the page, not any of the header or footer stuff.
>>
>> I wrote an article about my Dreamweaver -> Free Software Web Development
>> switch:
>> http://ithacafreesoftware.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62
>>
>>
> Absolutely. If you can learn some basic PHP, start coding by hand and
> send it to your web host.
>
> But, again, we're looking for the least-bad WYSIWYG editor, I think, and
> NVU is the only one I even know of other than mozilla composer.
>
> Follow up to a previous post: that NVU package does *not* work on Sarge.
NVU is no longer part of Debian. According to the buglist, upstream
stop development on it.
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