On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:11 -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > > Two approches: > > 1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the Save As > > XHTML > > feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for a quick > > page. However, > > 2. For creating an intricate web site, or a series of web pages, > > Learn > > XHTML, CSS, and perhaps javascript. Code it from scratch in nano, > > Kate, > > Gedit, whatever, because there is no WYSIWYG editor currently in > > existence that does everything to quality. I.E. things do not render > > currectly cross-platform or cross-browser, pieces of code do not > > validate, or perhaps the sources are simply unorganized. > > 3. If you simply *must* ignore 2, try NVU (which is based on the > > original Mozilla Composer). You don't have my blessing. > > > > My friend says that DW has a "template" feature that automatizes > > building a website. How would you do that without DW? > > > > I don't know DW, I don't know web designing, but I suspect that this > > is what CSS is for, isn't it? > > > > Again, how would you build a large website of similar pages? > > This depends on the Web host. Some hosts offer scripting languages like > Perl, PHP, etc. > > In my case, I was able to make my switch from Dreamweaver easier by > using PHP includes at the top and bottom of my page content. These > includes contained the HTML that was common to all of the pages on my > site. The benefit of this was that there was very little duplication of > HTML code, and that's always a good thing. > > Also, the Web content editors would work only with the main content of > the page, not any of the header or footer stuff. > > I wrote an article about my Dreamweaver -> Free Software Web Development > switch: > http://ithacafreesoftware.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62 > > Absolutely. If you can learn some basic PHP, start coding by hand and send it to your web host.
But, again, we're looking for the least-bad WYSIWYG editor, I think, and NVU is the only one I even know of other than mozilla composer. Follow up to a previous post: that NVU package does *not* work on Sarge. -- Matthew K Poer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
