-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew K Poer wrote: > 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.
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