Website design : what to use ?

[Asko Kauppi]

Hmm.. I see your point and actually share your need.

While waiting for the perfect 'silver bullet' to arrive (for me, on the 
OS X) I did the following:  http://www.sci.fi/~abisoft/lumikki/  It's a 
combination of Lua scripting language (http://www.lua.org) with HTML 
creation.

I know, i know.. It's not graphical (wysiwyg), and not even intending 
to be.  But the ImageMagick integration (http://www.imagemagick.org) 
allows you to craft & modify images on the run, which imho is very, 
very powerful feature.  Things like cropping, resize etc. can be done 
without affecting your originals in any way.  Also format conversions.

Well, have a look, judge for yourself.  Making your site with Lumikki 
wouldn't be hard, but you maybe need to change your working habits.

-ak

8.1.2005 kello 11:04, Vincent Trouilliez kirjoitti:

  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....
>
>
>
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