Web Design Tools - your favs?

[OzzMosiz]

I'm looking to do some web design, I've got dreamweaver 3 on my PC but its old and cannot format templates well.

What are the alternatives on Ubuntu and what are your favourite web design tools?

All feedback highly appreciated. :D

[shen-an-doah]

The most "Dreamweaver-like" app would be Nvu. There's also an updated version of it called Kompozer where some bugs have been fixed and whatnot so you don't have to wait for the next release of Nvu.

[loserboy]

I'm a novice, I use Aptana

[KingCharles]

I like bluefish. (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/) It is fast simple and reliable. I do not like the WYSIWYG editors ! ;)

[Mars73]

I use Kompozer.
Used DreamWeaver MX on XP but after switching to Ubuntu I found that Kompozer replaced it very nicely.

[Hairy_Palms]

aptana here, its really nice

[mcduck]

I usually draw graphics with Inkscape, cut the image to suitable pieces with Gimp and then build the page with Gedit.

[Eric_Jardas]

Gedit here.

[djmaxmalta]

I use Kompozer.
Used DreamWeaver MX on XP but after switching to Ubuntu I found that Kompozer replaced it very nicely.
where do u get kompozer* its not in the repos... section? and is there an alternative for dreamweaver or A4flash webbuilder???

[shen-an-doah]

where do u get kompozer* its not in the repos... section? and is there an alternative for dreamweaver or A4flash webbuilder???

It's in synaptic. Just search there or do a "sudo apt-get install kompozer"...

[oxalá]

guess aptana's not available in synaptic, eh?

did anyone have any install problems or anything thing else go wrong with aptana? it looks interesting and I think i'm going to give it a shot.

[Hairy_Palms]

aptan you just download an extract then run it from there,

[stchman]

It's in synaptic. Just search there or do a "sudo apt-get install kompozer"...

Kompozer is not available in the Feisty repos. What repository are you using?

[shen-an-doah]

Kompozer is not available in the Feisty repos. What repository are you using?

It seems I may have gotten a deb file from somewhere... Silly me.

[haricharan]

Aptana and NVU are great....

[shanerdaner]

I got kompozer and saved the tar file to my desktop...how do I install it? tia

[Drunky]

I got kompozer and saved the tar file to my desktop...how do I install it? tia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kompozer?highlight=%28kompozer%29

[stchman]

I got kompozer and saved the tar file to my desktop...how do I install it? tia

I have a script that installs Kompozer for Ubuntu:

http://www.stchman.com/tools_page.html

I have the pre-compiled binary or the .deb, take your pick.

[shanerdaner]

got it working thanks guys!!!!!

[ZERO_SHIFT]

I use N|vu I think its amazing, however I did not yet give Kompozer a try.

[airtonix]

When you all get some time, have a look at inkscape....it has a xml code view window.

now transform this xml with an xslt template with a svg/xslt aware browser (like epiphany) and you have yourself a very nice website templating system based on a vector art program.

how much more true is that to the "actually-is wysiwyg" paradigm?

[Kundalinux]

I got kompozer and saved the tar file to my desktop...how do I install it? tia

Download from here: http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=kompozer
It's a deb. Just double click on the downloaded file and it will install like synaptic does. Very easy

Enjoy :)

[stchman]

I use N|vu I think its amazing, however I did not yet give Kompozer a try.

Kompozer is the bug fix for Nvu. They look and act exactly the same.

Install and you will see.

[barmazal]

I'm a novice, I use Aptana

to use Aptana is not being a novice, especially this is the one IDE i've seen that actually does has 80% full Javascript support for development when Dreamweaver and Visual Studio fail there.

NVU and Dreamweaver have the only common function called drag and drop items, other things are totally different since NVU made long time ago. I think it is not updated since 2004 or so.

Aptana is not drag and drop though, if you like Dreamweaver because of it's drag drop controllers functionality then avoid Aptana, it's coding only. even thought it much better than any of text editors mentioned here

[Rohen]

Aptana is pretty heavy program. I caught it using a whooping 130 Megs. Bluefish gets the job done, it's extremly fast, and reliable. I just wish I could figure out how to change the HTML colors. There's just to much red on my screen. :p

[AJB2K3]

Anything that can create .txt documents.
It the only way to get pure clean XHTML 1.0