Website design : what to use ?

[David Mandelberg]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I have tried the following:
> 
> - Blue Fish
> - Scream
> - Quanta
> - Mozilla "composer"
> - NVU

Have you tried using a plain text editor yet? I prefer vim or emacs, but gedit
is good for writing html too.

The good things about text editors are:
* complete control
 * no annoying marks telling people what generator you use
 * better code layout
* you can use better page layouts that are based on what you're showing rather
  than how you think it should look
* the web site can be made more accessible by correctly using css, tables, and
  multimedia
* versatile
 * once you know your code, you can edit it anywhere with anything
 * the code can work with Any Browser(tm)
 * you're not reliant on having a gui, a fast computer, your own computer,
   or much of anything else that wysiwyg editors make you dependent on
 * it's easier to translate the website into many languages without redoing
   everything

The "bad" things about them are:
* complete control
 * it can be a bit overwhelming at first
* good web pages are detrimental to Microsoft's hold on the market share of IE
* confusing
 * editing html and other markup is very different from wysiwyg 'editors'
 * there are a lot more acronyms to learn

Some websites that might be of interest for learning how to make good web pages
without using a wysiwyg editor:
* <http://www.w3schools.com/> (X)HTML, CSS, multimedia, PHP, web design help
* <http://www.w3.org/> official standards for (X)HTML, CSS, XML, XSL, PNG, and
  many other useful things
* <http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/> useful info on browser compatibility


If text editing isn't your piece of cake, you could also look at web based
things like wikis or cms's. Some good ones are mediawiki
<http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/> and plone <http://plone.org/>.

These both provide excellent editing capabilities without the necessity to learn
html, css, and other web standards.



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David Mandelberg
mandelbergd at eth0.is-a-geek.org
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