Website design : what to use ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Hi gents,

I have got a few little sites I created back when I was using Windows. 
Originally I used Dreamweaver 4.0, which I really liked.

But now that I am with Linux, I have not yet found anything comparable
to Dreamweaver, so I tend not to work on my sites anymore, because it's
such a pain without DW.

I have tried the following:

- Blue Fish
- Scream
- Quanta
- Mozilla "composer"
- NVU

They all have good points, but none of them, taken individually, is
satisfactory. 

So far, BlueFish appears promising. But it's painfully slow (several
seconds) to paste text, or just typing text really. Then the project
manager asks me for nothing butt the project name, which is a bit short
to be of any use, then I can't see how to upload individual files
easily, or how to upload anytihng really, as it didn't ask me for the
FTP server details when creatin the project.
Also, it doesn't let you "draw" the site in graphical/"WYSIWYG" mode, so
setting the layout of the site is hardly comfortable.

Well, that's just an example, the other programs too have their own set
of issues.

So, I am still dreaming of seeing a "clone" of Dreamweaver, or something
that offer similar functionality and ease of use.

I came across things like "Typo3", "Drupal", but they are called
"content manager", and seem extremely huge and complex to use, so not
sure if they are suited for anytihng but huge corporate sites like say
microsoft.com or other sites that have billions of billions of billions
of pages and gigagbytes.

So I would not mind people's opinion. Have I missed a potentially
interesting programm ? Are these "content manager" suitable for "normal"
sites, not mega huge sites, nor fora ? Just normal small business sites
or personal sites ?
I see that Drupal is in Synpatic, so I guess I could try and see for
myself, while waiting for peoples opinions/comments.

To give you an idea, the site that needs most of my attention is that
one : www.pukesprit.de

I would like a good web design package, as I would like to seriously
revamp it, to make it look better, more tidy and clean, outside AND
inside... And also, make it easier to uipdate and keep consistent
(fonts, formatting etc). I didn't know much about HTML (read: nothing at
all ;o) when I first created it 18 months ago. I would like to redesign
it from scratch. Get rid of the frame structure for a table layout
instead, to better control the layout/appearance. But that then brings
its lot of problems (eg menu bar).......


Vince, waiting for that perfect package....