ixoye777 Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 New Linux user. Always used Dreamweaver in Windows. Is there something similar for Linux? or something that is easy to use. I am not proficient enough to design and edit web pages in a text editor so something like Dreamveaver would fit the bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 (edited) NVU is a wysiwyg website editor, you can install it with urpmi nvu in the console, of with MCC Take a look on there Website Edited August 22, 2007 by willie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Dreamweaver will also run in wine if you don't find a good alternative under Linux. Although for me, I force myself to use the alternatives, and then after a while I find I'm comfortable with nvu, or whatever else is available. Then we're truly Linux-only, than just partially :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 I would have to throw caution in to the wind here, from what I have been told Nvu is ridden with bugs, Kompozer tries to fix as many of them as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 (edited) I like KompoZer which is an unofficial NVU fork, with some extra features (which are likely to appear in nvu 1.1 whenever it will appear) and several serious bugs squashed. And of course the new Quanta, which will ship with KDE4 ought to be good (current version is OK). Edited August 22, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Although to be fair, none could match DreamWeaver last I tried. On the other hand, if you're going to be very professional about it, wysiwyg is not the way to go. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Although to be fair, none could match DreamWeaver last I tried. On the other hand, if you're going to be very professional about it, wysiwyg is not the way to go. Yves. I agree with both these statements. Dreamweaver is both great and easy to use, while most professionals would prefer to work on EditPad (win) or Kate (lin) - absolute control over everything. However, using a texteditor to create html or xml requires advanced syntax knowledge, which is not everyone's cup of tea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 However, using a texteditor to create html or xml requires advanced syntax knowledge, which is not everyone's cup of tea... In addition, drawing a table with a GUI is a lot quicker than hand coding it. Personally I like to use WYSIWYG to lay out the basics, then tweak and validate the code after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Admittedly, I find that the generated code is verbose and bulky. However, I like Reiver's idea of tweaking the code and adding in more things manually. I've been known to do this before. Unfortunately, in the end, I find that I end up spending about as much time doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 I'm with reiver. Use the gui, and if you want to tweak and refine it, go for it later. A lot of the time, I tweak what I need to work and leave the rest. Hey, I just don't have time to clean up and get rid of the unwanted crap :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 A great tool to fix up and clean code produced by those bigger apps is named "tidy". I'm using it for man years now. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Nice tip scoonma. I'll have to remember that for when I start html coding again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Just for information, in 2008, Kompozer will replace Nvu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 I haven't used a wysiwyg editor in 4 years ;) soon enough html becomes as easy as any other language (spoken) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 In addition, drawing a table with a GUI is a lot quicker than hand coding it.You shouldn't be using tables unless you're representing tabular data. Otherwise, div's and span's, baby, div's and span's. As far as WYS....WYSI...WYSIwhogivesacrap, I would suggest learning to make the pages yourself, without any software. Editors such as these just make for unclean and bloated code that can be a pain to get working with the standards (ok, maybe that's a bit of an over generalization, but seriously, ever look at some of the code they make? GAH! Horrid...). Or maybe I'm just a purist (I wrote my first webpage in notepad...never used any WYSIWYG) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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