John Culleton wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 05:18:29 am John Beardmore wrote:
>> Sorry to post off topic ! >> >> I've been asked to recommend some tools for secondary school >> e-media teaching. >> >> So far I've suggested Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus with a side order >> of Freemind. >> >> They would however like some simple web tools that a school might >> use under Windows, Linux, and possibly on Macs. We don't want >> content management or sophisticated AJAX IDEs, just something >> simple for secondary school pupils to make reasonably modern html. >>What might be out there ? >> >> >> Many thanks, J/. > > I work in html itself so that the Vim editor, which does syntax > highlighting for many computer languages (about 100) does well. > > Bluefish is another editor with a stronger emphasis on html. > > Amaya is a more complete html tool that ensures standards-compliant > results. > > All these are available on all three major platforms, although as > usual Linux is the more friendly environment for Open source > products. Yes - though this course is e-media rather than programming so I suspect that tools from a programming environment won't be ideal. WYSIWYG preferred. > Quanta Plus is another and Linux-only html development tool. It is > closely integrated with the KDE desktop, a common GUI on Linux > machines. It aims to beat all the competition, including > Dreamweaver. > > IMO web design used to be simpler when html was the only > consideration. It has become more complex and files more verbose with > the addition of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XHTML encoding. I'd have thought that CSS would make things smaller, but possibly harder to understand ? > With the new approach you really have to learn two languages, html > and CSS, and maintain two files, the web page proper and the CSS > sheet. Yes. I think for this audience we need to avoid 'how it's done' in favour of 'what can be done'. > My sites are still crafted the easy way in straight html. Mine too, but of late we've had somebody do something a little more stylish. Doesn't half flush out browser layout engine bugs though. >But I have > books on the other approach which I read during commercial breaks. Yes. I've looked a bit at Ajax and had a bit of a stab at developing some Java based virtual instruments. Le Monolecte wrote: > Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 ? 14:16 +0200, Craig Bradney a ?crit : >> I wouldn't use anything but Quanta Plus - I have used it for writing >> websites with it for years. A very good product, and with KDE4 moving >> to OSX >> and Windows, it will be 100% cross platform too. >> >> Craig > > The same experience than Craig : very good tool using on Ubuntu Linux > with Gnome, 3 years of good results! So to sum up, Quanta Plus may be ideal when / if it ports to Windows, but in the mean time, look at Amaya and Komposer ? Thanks, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Carbon Trust Consultant: Energy Audit, Carbon Footprint, Design Advice Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme, (EEAS), Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
