[SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Kyle
Hi Folks, what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux?Junior wants to start building his own website, so he's going to require some assistance. What do folks use pls? -- Kind Regards Kyle -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:43 +1000, Kyle wrote: what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux?Junior wants to start building his own website, so he's going to require some assistance. What do folks use pls? Teach him HTML 5. It's dead easier than HTML 4 in terms of markup simplicity,

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Ben Donohue
you could try Kompozer http://kompozer.net/ Ben Kyle wrote: Hi Folks, what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux?Junior wants to start building his own website, so he's going to require some assistance. What do folks use pls? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread meryl
Kyle wrote: what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux? Bluefish or Quanta Plus would be what I'd recommend if a Dreamweaver style coding-helper is required. But Junior will really learn a lot more about standards, web development clean code if he just uses gedit and follows the W3C

RE: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Troy Rollo
Plus you should consider setting up Drupal to manage his pages. 1. Learning the CMS was is better anyway since that is the way real web sites are managed now; 2. He can start out with filtered HTML (which is dead simple), then as he learns progress to unfiltered, and eventually PHP; 3. When

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Kyle
Thanks all for the suggestions. Meryl, he's 9. I.e. the attention span of a goldfish. I think we'll start with baby steps. :-) Kind Regards Kyle meryl wrote: Kyle wrote: what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread jon
Or Joomla! -- www.joomla.org. Jon. Troy Rollo wrote: Plus you should consider setting up Drupal to manage his pages. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
Try NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ although its been dead for a long while. http://kompozer.net/ which seems to be under development again! Dean Kyle wrote: Hi Folks, what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux?Junior wants to start building his own website, so he's going to

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Ishwor
Folks Hi. Plus you should consider setting up Drupal to manage his pages. 1. Learning the CMS was is better anyway since that is the way real web sites are managed now; 2. He can start out with filtered HTML (which is dead simple), then as he learns progress to unfiltered, and eventually

[SLUG] September SLUG Meeting: Friday, September 25 2009

2009-09-16 Thread Rob Weir
== September Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement at http://slug.org.au/node/118 SLUG's monthly meeting. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge. Where: Our venue is now Google, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont. It's across the road

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Blindraven
This is why I love SLUG. Somebody asks for a Linux Dreamweaver alternative, and it goes from do it in vim to He should just learn Python. We're tops. !! On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ishwor ishwor.gur...@gmail.com wrote: Folks Hi. Plus you should consider setting up Drupal to manage

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Visser
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ishwor ishwor.gur...@gmail.com wrote: snip PHP is full of bugs and security vulnerabilities(all the time). It maybe easier to learn+program comparatively but I would rather not bother with it. I would rather suggest that junior start with Python. snip I'm

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Visser
We just want to make sure Kyle is asking the right question ;-) Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Blindraven blindra...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I love SLUG. Somebody asks for a Linux Dreamweaver alternative, and it goes from do it in vim to He

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread Rick Welykochy
Martin Visser wrote: I'm a big Python fan, but I reckon you can code up just as many insecure sites or web frameworks in Python as you can in PHP. Often security probs are PEBKAC, be it the programmer or a hapless user. cheers rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy ||

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-16 Thread meryl
This is why I love SLUG. Somebody asks for a Linux Dreamweaver alternative, and it goes from do it in vim to He should just learn Python. ... and it raises the question; When is one too young to start programming? By the time Kyle's little goldfish is 11 he'll might even be writing his