Website Development Program?

[Breaks]

Hello all,

Im just curious, i do alot of website work (using dreamweaver in the past) and im now wondering what programs there are (if any) that are similar to dreamweaver but of course work in ubuntu and are free heh :). Anyone got any recommendations? as i have no clue what so ever on what sort of programs there are for linux based machines for this task.

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any responses i get.

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[HanZo]

There is a few out there... but in my opinion only one really gets close to dreaweaver (although not close enough), and it's called NVU (you can find it in synaptic). Another one that is sayed to be good is bluefish, but it's more the hardcore version (no WYSIWYG as far as I know... correct me if I'm wrong). And of course there is also quanta, which as far as I know is similar to bluefish.
anyway... if you are used to templates, make compicated websites and don't like coding by hand... you'd better stick to dreamweaver.

[Breaks]

Nope, i prefer doing it all by code, never use templates as i do all of my own work and start from scratch, and i cant stick to dreamweaver because i hung my hat out with any windows program when i moved over to ubuntu :)...

However thank you for your post and ill be sure to look into those programs you mentioned.

[Pathogenix]

If you prefer doing it all by hand then why use a specialist web dev tool? I just use whatever text editor I have handy; Ultraedit in Windows and (slowly but surely) Emacs under Ubuntu.

[toojays]

If you're doing XHTML and like to use Emacs, be sure to check out nXML mode (http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/).

[gheorghe_pop]

If you prefer doing it all by hand then why use a specialist web dev tool? I just use whatever text editor I have handy; Ultraedit in Windows and (slowly but surely) Emacs under Ubuntu.

I agree with you. Bluefish,Gedit for linux.

[Breaks]

If you prefer doing it all by hand then why use a specialist web dev tool? I just use whatever text editor I have handy; Ultraedit in Windows and (slowly but surely) Emacs under Ubuntu.

I like having a program that colour codes all the different tags that are used such as table tags in green, form tags in red yada yada yada... makes the code a hell of alot easier to navigate and read through in my opinion.

[psychicdragon]

Try Bluefish. It's a really good editor for html and php.

[simon w]

anyway... if you are used to templates, make compicated websites... you'd better stick to dreamweaver.

Lols, that's funny :D

I use:
Vi(m)
Kate
Zend Studio 5 Beta (beta versions are free)
Eclipse with PHP plugins (free)

[rock freak]

gedit will colour the tags for you if you go to view thenmarkup it also automaticlly does it if you happen to save the document and it reconized the extension. It's good for C :p

[ofek]

I had to build a website in html/css/java/php for school and bluefish was my first and last try for the job.
it just gets the job done of course ull have to know how to actually use html (it isn't dreamweaver) but i think its better like that.

[Breaks]

Well thank you all for your comments on the subject :D.. ill be sure to take into consideration and try out all your suggestions ;).

[wmcbrine]

I like having a program that colour codes all the different tags that are used
Even vim will do that kind of syntax highlighting... although for some reason, it's not working in my Ubuntu. Hmm...

[flower]

really fast and nice solution - Bluefish (it's in breezy repositories)
more resource consuming but really sophisticated solution - Eclipse with PHP plugin :)

[fng]

eclipse with phpdev and viplugin :)

[randell6564]

There is a few out there... but in my opinion only one really gets close to dreaweaver (although not close enough), and it's called NVU (you can find it in synaptic).
Hya! I just checked Synaptic and nothing popped up for NVU.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. All repo's are active. Anyone know where I can find NVU? Thanks!

[LaRoza]

Hya! I just checked Synaptic and nothing popped up for NVU.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. All repo's are active. Anyone know where I can find NVU? Thanks!

http://nvudev.com/download.php They have a .deb (in the communtiy section)

[Majorix]

Try Kompozer instead. It is a remake of NVu. And the nice thing to it is that it is available through the repos. Just search for kompozer using your fav package manager.

[randell6564]

Thanks to both of you! 'LaRoza', I gotta check out your wiki link just as soon as I figure out which one I like, (NVU or Kompozer)
Thanks again!

[LaRoza]

Thanks to both of you! 'LaRoza', I gotta check out your wiki link just as soon as I figure out which one I like, (NVU or Kompozer)
Thanks again!

Use a text editor like Kate, Kwrite, Gedit or Vim.

WYSIWYG editors are <notagoodword>.

[Majorix]

Use a text editor like Kate, Kwrite, Gedit or Vim.

WYSIWYG editors are <notagoodword>.

Not everyone can or wants to write the HTML/PHP code by themselves, when they can just click and click and be done. However, it is true that writing code by hand gives you more power.

[LaRoza]

Not everyone can or wants to write the HTML/PHP code by themselves, when they can just click and click and be done. However, it is true that writing code by hand gives you more power.

Everyone can do it. If you want a good design, you have to design it. The worst sites I see are the results of WYSIWYG editors and the code is horrendus.

Try making a clone of http://laroza.freehostia.com/home with one of those tools. I bet it will be at least twice the size and not valid.

[Wybiral]

Use a web framework that has a good template system and you wont have to do either. You will also be able to generate more dynamic and reusable content. Unless your site is just a bunch of hand-written pages of non-dynamic/reused content (which is becoming less and less common in the new massive content driven internet), then I see no point in hand coding it or using a WYSIWYG.

[LaRoza]

Use a web framework that has a good template system and you wont have to do either. You will also be able to generate more dynamic and reusable content. Unless your site is just a bunch of hand-written pages of non-dynamic/reused content (which is becoming less and less common in the new massive content driven internet), then I see no point in hand coding it or using a WYSIWYG.

I wrote my own templates, so I mostly only have to write content, and reuse my scripts and improve them as I go.

My sites are entirely dynamic, in fact, that site is actually one page.

[Samhain13]

Another vote for Gedit. It already has syntax highlighting but one can always install other useful things like "File Browser Pane", "Snippets" and "Indent Lines".

[Kadrus]

I suggest Quanta.


sudo apt-get install quanta

Good luck in whatever your choice is.