arthurking Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 (edited) Hello, I wasn't sure if I should post here or in the Software forum. Anyhow I think this involves programming, so here I post. My wife is contracting to a university some research work. She's been asked to help design a webpage for the course that she's researching. Neither of us are webpage designers or programmers. We got Frontpage with Office, and she's Windows only. I've been trying to convince her to 'come over to Linux' for a while now, if only for emails, but she's happy to use outlook express. Can you programmer types out there suggest a "Frontpage(easy) Equivalent(not produce MS crap)" app in Linux that will not create 'Frontpages' for her. It created some weird crap for her that was later correctly hand coded by her Father, a web designer, that worked well. I've no idea what to use, but this is "your big chance" to sway her over. C'mon everyone don't let me down BTW; I just upgraded to MDK10rc1, very cool, minor bugs aside (it is rc1 after all). Rpm's or source, doesn't matter. Rpm is better, then I'll let her install it. BTW(2); If you all want to convert someone over to Linux from MS then you don't show them the CLI. I'll let her find that she needs it at a later stage, when she's more reliant on the Linux box. :lol: thanks Edited March 14, 2004 by arthurking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 (edited) If you're serious about web designing, I would suggest Quanta Plus. BUT: people who use Frontpage probably aren't serious about that (or just ignorant or misinformed, it all comes down to the same :P ). I would suggest to check out Nvu: Nvu website They are specifically developing this as a replacement for Frontpage. They are building on code from the (older) Mozilla Composer. That's really the only one I can think of... Darkelve Edited March 14, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 The only thing I could suggest, aside from Nvu, would be to possibly check out OpenOffice.org. It supposedly has a webpage part to it. Although, I think it is more like creating webpages in Word that in Frontpage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjc Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 (edited) Note :Sorry I missed the "Linux App" in your message before I posted what's below...all the stuff below runs on Windows Machines...except Netscape Composer which does run under Linux) I have a collection of all sorts of programs Net Object Fusion, GoLive (Mac and PC), Homesite, Adobe PageMill (obsolete) and programs from CoffeeCup Software. Have a look at the programs at http://www.coffeecup.com Specifically http://www.coffeecup.com/designer (what you see is what you get ) and http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/ They are $49 each Or check out the big cup offer http://www.coffeecup.com/bigcup/ for $149 and get 7 website design software packages + pop-up and spam blocker If nothing else download the trial versions of Designer and Html-Editor and try them. Other choice for free, Netscape Composer (Win, Mac and Linux) Edited March 14, 2004 by cjc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 Nvu looks interesting. If I'm in linux I use Mozilla Composer. It's nothing special but get's the job done for a linux wysiwyg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 vi! ok.... maybe not..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurking Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Thanks for the replies. I should have made the point that, Frontpage works well if everyone in the world used IE. And yes, She is ignorant and misinformed I assume the same goes for Netscape/Mozilla? My problem was/is as an advisor to 'her royal majesty' I'm also ignorant. But I think I'll push her towards vi. Not sure what she'll think of the way the mouse behaves though. :P cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 AFAIK the composer part of mozilla produces w3c compliant HTML so it should work on any browser (note the should). I've heard good things about nvu and that would be your best bet. Hand coding in vi is not a great idea for a newb (hand coding in emacs however is perfectly sensible ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 I think you need to seperate out the different parts of Web design. SO/OO is OK but produces quirky code but its nice and easy. Quanta/bluefish not bad... I think the important part is to let her open the same web pages in different editors according to what she want to do. That is you might create something in OO but clean it up in bluefish or quanta etc. vi is really cool with context highlighting !! but probably not the best onto :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejr Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 If it's just a single project - Download the Dreamweaver trial, do it on Windows and be done with it. Is she trying to pass the class? Some of Frontpages code is horrific - then again Yahoo site builder and a free account will let her get an A in all likelyhood. From what I've seen, unless it is a web development class the teacher's expectations are pretty low ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 vi! ok.... maybe not..... vi has my vote ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurking Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 It's a temp/one off thing at the moment. The original job was researching stuff for the actual course. Women's studies or something. The person she's contracting for was impressed by my wife's researching that she asked her to design the web page for promoting the course. A one-off, but who knows where this will lead her. Note: Father-in-Law is a bit of a guru in web coding, he came down for a holiday over this weekend and helped to clean the Frontpage code. Wife was impressed with Notepad's ability All recommendations will be looked into. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Whatever you pick, don't let the search for the web tool make the project not happen :) been there done that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Whatever you pick, don't let the search for the web tool make the project not happen :) been there done that! Yeah. While you're looking, might as well start working things out on paper first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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