steppenwolf1984 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Any advice from webmasters on which of a number of HTML / Web Editors is best for someone working on designing their first web site with little HTML background? Ive been reading up on Nvu and Quanta+ , and dabbling with those and BlueFish and Mozilla composer but not getting far. What s the best one for a newb to web design...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 First, there's no such thing as a good web editor :lol: OK, I understand what you want, and indeed nvu is often cited. But IMHO, it's much better in the long term to just learn to code HTML, CSS... Among Quanta, Screem, Bluefish, and the like, it is Bluefish I prefer. But those I really prefer are Kate (heavy) and nedit (light) for editing XML, HTML, PHP... files. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 First, there's no such thing as a good web editor :lol: Generically, you may be right, but practically you are wrong. NVU ( a spinoff of the old Mozilla Composer) currently at version 1/stable, is a very decent WYSIWYG web editor, and since it's pluggable (using xpi extensions) expect it to be a killer editor in te near future. Currently it could be considered as "Dreamweaver for the Poor". www.nvu.com I have compiled it with KDE widgets support for Arch Linux, and it's working great. For Mandriva 2005LE there are stock packages at the nvu site (never used/tested them, but I fail to see why they shouldn't work). I won't argue that Kate is a superb html editor, but this is for people that DO know html coding and not just moving their mouse... On the other hand, if you do know how to move your mouse, NVU is likely to produce "something"- good or bad, it doesn't really matter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 I use bluefish, It's great lot's of features. Oh and your going to get no where if you expect the program to do all the work. Read http://www.w3schools.com/ then practice then read again, rinse and repeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 I prefer Quanta, but then.. I haven't really tried NVU (downloading now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 My first sentence was half serious, half joke. By all means nvu *is* the best of its category for Linux, just as Dreamweaver is for Windows. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted August 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Downloaded Nvu, its already on my xp (if my xp is still there...its been awhile, heh) and it seems smooth in comparison to Bluefish and Quanta....tho, they arent all that obtuse either. Theres something comfortable about Nvu and I hope it does take off in a big way. Between that and my sybarex HTML Complete, I should be able to use that blog space someday soon...thanks for the recommends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 vim and if you must have more; Bluefish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 vim and if you must have more; vim + screen :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 No paul: you're wasting memory!!! Try that: :hide edit! file1.html :ls :buf file1.html Yves. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 see now we're just getting silly :P :buf can be reduced to just :b stack# vim file1.html file2.html file3.html :ls :b 3 :b 2 etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I like M$ concept: Visual InterDev (aka Quanta+) and M$DN. The advantage is that you can get help or a full reference for all HTML/JavaScript/CSS/ASP elements while editing your page. The question is: is there something like M$DN for linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I like M$ concept: Visual InterDev (aka Quanta+) and M$DN. The advantage is that you can get help or a full reference for all HTML/JavaScript/CSS/ASP elements while editing your page. The question is: is there something like M$DN for linux? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well nothing is going to do .asp help except M$ products but NVU is a good stab at WYSWYG but vi works fine for me ... I tend to mix both ways but then I don't do a lot of websites A couple of years ago I spent 6 months editing M$ HTML in wordpad cleaning out the crap introduced from word and FrontPage. I have never had a problem with dreamweaver generated code though.. and NVU is pretty good IMHO if this is what you want! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 if i'm just throwing something together, i use mozilla's composer or (hehe *ashamed*) sometimes even oo and save as html. if i'm trying to exercise any control whatsoever i use quanta. i'm a kate user for programming, but quanta does what a good editor should do. it saves time and does the same thing you'd do in the bare-bones interface. i've yet to give nvu a shot. i might do that tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Well nothing is going to do .asp help except M$ products but NVU is a good stab at WYSWYG but vi works fine for me ... I tend to mix both ways but then I don't do a lot of websites A couple of years ago I spent 6 months editing M$ HTML in wordpad cleaning out the crap introduced from word and FrontPage. I have never had a problem with dreamweaver generated code though.. and NVU is pretty good IMHO if this is what you want! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> FrontPage is owfull indeed , and asp was just an example, php/jsp/cgi will do it as well. But all that editors don't include built-in help for elements, and i think if they would - it'll be nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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