[Gllug] Web design?

[Russell Howe]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:16:31PM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    A friend who is experienced in design, layout, photo-setting, and
> printing, as well as web design, using a combination of Acorn, Apple, and M$
> PC, wants to try using Linux. He has used various packages, including
> dreamweaver and photoshop, but would appreciate suggestions about
> Linux-based packages.
>    He has seen a package called NVU, has anyone tried it?

Not heard of it. I've used bluefish in the past, which is a basic markup
editor (perhaps no better than using emacs or vi). jEdit handles HTML
markup pretty well.

For a more WYSIAWYG (A = approx.), there's a program called screem,
although IIRC I managed to make it crash quite easily.

There's even Mozilla Composer... :)

One thing I remember liking with RedHat 5.0 was emacs' html-mode. I
never did find out where it came from (although to be fair, I never
looked very hard). It really was very nice to use.

Needless to say, for web work, there are a bunch of extensions for
Firefox (and Mozilla 'proper') which make things much easier. I
especially liked one for Firefox which allowed you to edit a CSS
stylesheet in the sidebar, and see the changes take effect in realtime,
without a save and reload cycle.

The GIMP is quite good for editing up images for the web, and is
scriptable so that you can script generation of images (this used to be
handy for navigation buttons, but CSS support is such that you can get
good enough styling without having to resort to images of text in many
cases these days).

GIMP also has an image map plugin, which while tedious, produces pretty
good results.

I'm doubt you'll find anything comparable to dreamweaver, but I'm not
sure if that's such a bad thing :)

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