Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver

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.
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