[Nottingham] CMS / HTML editors

[Graeme Fowler]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:00 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a relatively decent HTML editor or "lite" CMS?

OK, thanks for the replies so far... the following have been
recommended:

1. nvu
Looks great. Feels great. Performs badly - the lack of any form of
secure publishing method kills it off; plus the fact that although I can
open any pages I want I cannot get the darned thing to open a _site_,
even with a local copy. Perhaps a bug in the newly rolled FC5 version,
but still. And I would *love* SFTP, although I didn't say that before.

2. bluefish
No WYSIWYG. Also doesn't seem to want to open a page in a browser - any
browser - to show me how it looks.

3. mozilla composer
Unfortunately I've sent the Mozilla Bloatware and its' many attendant
libraries away (Firefox is nicer) and it just wants to come back with
this and take over the world of browsing. Irritating. That said, this is
a nice package (and is one I've used for yonks, on and off).

4. Quanta plus
Not running KDE, which makes that kind of moot.

5. OpenOffice
Hrm. Hadn't thought of that one as a serious contender, for the
principal reason nvu is going to get removed soon (no SFTP support).

6. Amaya
Now, this looks like the dog's danglies... ah, wait a minute, it wants
to use DAV publishing... No, can't turn that on either, other people use
this machine and it'd mean opening up my site to be writeable by the
Apache user or group. Ho hum.

Looks like I'm (a) running a local copy of the site I want to keep
up-to-date, and (b) using plain old SFTP from the command line (or
Nautilus) to keep it in sync.

Oh well. Maybe it's back to Vi then!

Graeme