On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > IMHO you are miles ahead if you go ahead and take the short time it takes to > learn to code by hand.....it is much easier to code to w3c specs if you are > able to make the changes quickly. Most WYSWYG editors do not code nearly as > well as you can by hand.....besides -- coding is half the fun! :)
I agree wholeheartedly! Even my wife, who is a web designer and not a technical person at all, prefers to code her own HTML. She uses UltraEdit for Windows and Dreamweaver, but writes her own code rather than taking advantage of it's WYSIWIG functionality -- the only exception being when she is maintaining a page done by someone else who used a WYSIWIG tool, and the HTML is so horrendous that she doesn't have the time to clean it up herself ;-) > BlueFish is an excellent html/text editor for linux. There are many > others....most are FREE.....IBM's WYSWYG HomePageBuilder is not. I'm not > bashing IBM or WYSWYG editors -- so easy on the flames guys--- Just my > personal opinions as a web designer. I am VERY pleased to see IBM on the > Linux side of the court. Would be even more pleased to see them port over > Lotus Desktop products......very user friendly and so much nicer to use than > M$'s.......again just MHO. I tried Bluefish, but wasn't really impressed. I am now using Quanta Plus, included with Mandrake 8.1. It's a KDE app, but runs fine on my Gnome desktop. It is a code-based editor, but allows you to create projects with whole directories or individual files, publish your site to a server (all files in the project, only recently changed files, or you can select them individually), and it color codes your HTML! It also understands JavaScript and PHP (my favorite server-side tool), so all your code is colored appropriate to the language being used. > Linux has many nice things for a webdesigner.....one of my goals in getting > into Linux was to try to get away from M$ totally. Gimp for graphics and > several fine FTP programs plus BlueFish have almost converted me totally. > (Although I still use my M$ machine some--even writing this email on one as > I am upgrading my Linux box from 233 mghz to 900mghz ~~fingers > crossed~~hopefully it goes smoothly :) > If you want a great HTML/Text editor for windows...... try NoteTabPro.... it > is the best html/text editor I have ever used. Limited only by the amount of > RAM in your machine. <~~~#1 reason I keep windows around. The developer is > planning to eventually port this to Linux.....probably won't be > free......but will be worth every penny.....and I'll be willing to be his > first customer :) I used to use UltraEdit for Windows, but with my move to Linux, Quanta has become my favorite web editing tool. For plain text editing, vi in a Gnome terminal is my friend ;-) Dave -- "I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness." -- Steve Martin
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