I suggest you get some of these packages installed, the choice is yours
really. You could read a little on each. I have recommended what I use;

Text Editors and IDEs
---------------
Vim - recommended
gedit
Bluefish
Screem
SciTE
gPHPEdit
Eclipse

WYSIWYG Editors
-----------------
Quanta Plus  - recommended
Nvu / KompoZer
Amaya
SeaMonkey

FTP and SSH
-------------
gFTP - recommended
FireFTP
Command line FTP, SSH , SCP - recommended


Graphics Applications
--------------------
GIMP - recommended
Inkscape

Miscellaneous Tools
-----------------------
- CSSED - A CSS editor based on GTK+.
- Tidy - A command-line utility to clean up and format or validate your HTML
code. Also available in the Firefox - as an add-on or use through gedit's
external tools plug-in.
- PHP_Beautifier - A pear package for beautifying (formatting) your PHP
code. Great to use with gedit's external tools plug-in.
- Agave - A color scheme designer for GNOME.

Browers
-----------
Firefox
Konqueror/Safari
Opera, Netscape,

Terminal and Web Server
--------------------
If you have a default desktop install without server pacakages you can get
all in one server pack - LAMPP -
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374

You can also get the KDE Web Development suite -
http://kdewebdev.org/releases.php


Regards,


-- 
patrick patons ocira
creative apps developer / dba
www.ocira.net / +256 704 008818
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Simon Peter Muwanga <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> So how can I get started with website development on linux?
>
> Simon.
> Kyle Spencer wrote:
> > Simon,
> >
> > There is no open-source alternative to Macromedia Flash that I'm aware
> > of (if that's what you were referencing).
> >
> > Photoshops equivalent is pretty much GIMP.
> >
> > -Kyle
> >
> > Simon Peter Muwanga wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I would like to design a website on OpenSuse.
> >>
> >> What tools will do the job?
> >>
> >> For instance an equivalent of micromedia and photoshop would be nice.
> >>
> >> Thanking you,
> >> Simon.
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