Is there a "Front Page" like web site designer for

[Guest jwl]

I would like to be able to do my site using Linux if there is a good alternative to MS Front Page. Any suggestions?

Thanks :D

 

Heh. My first reaction to this question was, "no, all HTML editors I know of that run on Linux allow you to write clean HTML code."

 

Stay away from Frontpage. Its code is horrible. I agree with others that your best bet if you don't know HTML is Mozilla Composer. If you do know HTML, Quanta works very well.

[Guest TweakHound]

MottS,

You are right, it is on Install Cd 2 (I was looking on the commercial apps CD). I wonder why it didn't show up in the Install Software list? When I tried the console command it said "everything already installed" or something like that. Strange.

Anyway, Thanks!

 

jwl,

I can do moderate HTML. The reason I use Front Page is it is fast and easy and it works. I have no desire to get into advanced coding, its just not my thing :)

 

Thanks ALL!

[MottS]

Some people have this bug. When you try to install something, urpmi returns 'everything already installed'.

 

There is a fix for that here --> http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ready+installed

 

i don't have this problem so I didn't try the fix but that may solve your problem.

 

Also, if you are not good with html stuff, try Netscape/Mozilla composer. They are good and you can do pretty much everything without touching the code. This is how I did my web page btw... html is not my part of my skills and I currently don't have time to learn that ;-)

 

Hope this help

 

MOttS

[ranger]

EVEN BETTER --> put rpmfind.com in your rpm sources and you'll be able to install Quanta from the Software Installer.  As root type that in a console (in a single line)

<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->urpmi.addmedia rpmfind ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with synthesis.hdlist.cz<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->

That's gonna give the guy cooker. Are you *really* sure that's advisable for a newbie?

 

Now open rpmdrake and seach for Quanta or type 'urpmi quanta' in a console as root.

 

And that's going to pull in the whole of KDE3.1rc5 (at present) which has some issues ...

 

I would suggest adding a normal Mandrake source, something like this would work:

urpmi.addmedia rpmfind ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with synthesis.hdlist.cz

 

But, it's easier to use http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon to find mirrors for urpmi sources.

 

Anyway, I think Mozilla composer is probably currently the best for WYSIWYG support, I use vi ;-).