[NTLUG:Discuss] what is the best Linux web page developing tool?

[Will Senn]

Hmm... I usually hesitate to embroil myself in these types of discussion,
but I use dreamweaver to edit html.  I find that I can code a template
for dreamweaver using my favorite text editor and limit it's autocoding
facilities.  This results in cleaner html than would otherwise be the
case.

Where dreamweaver and other gui tools shine is in layout.  I can turn
out many, many more pages with different layouts with dreamweaver, than
I could with a text editor in a similar amount of time.

Perhaps if your idea of web design is to settle for a simple layout in
the interest of simplicity itself, this would be ok.  Good web design
uses layout aesthetically as well as to simplify functionality.  Anyone
familiar with a good gui tool like Dreamweaver knows that it is ludicrous
to say that any old text editor can come remotely close to it in laying
out designs in reasonable timeframes.

Caveat here:  I am a fast typist with an excellent grasp of HTML
fundamentals
and structured programming.  Admittedly, Dreamweaver is not good at
providing structured HTML that is as good as what I would create by
hand.  However, nothing's gonna stop me from pulling the generated
HTML up in my trusty text editor and fixing the code -- After the 42nd
rapid fire layout design revision that day!

Will

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> I've been designing web pages for a while, using dreamweaver and such,
> but I was wondering what comparable apps are available in Linux. Thnks
> for the help, -Micky

	Myself, I'd say use a good text editor (FTE is a very nice one for
HTML; fte.sourceforge.net IIRC).  But if you insist on GUI tools that
write crappy HTML (which in my experience, GUI tools univerally do), check
out www.sourceforge.net for webpage editing apps.  There are a lot of
different options.  Cheers!

--
A.L.Lambert
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