Website design : what to use ?

[Tony Arnold]

Baza wrote:

> On a similar point. A friend of mine who uses Unbuntu has been asked to use
> Dreamweaver on a web project she works on. Is there any Linux software than
> works the same? She does not want to use Cross Over Office if possible.

I've not found anything that operates in quite the same way as Dreamweaver.

The issue to me, is not how do I generate HTML, there are many tools for 
doing that, the issue is managing your WEB site.

Dramweaver treats the WEB site as the master copy and allows an editor 
to grab a copy locally, play with it etc., and then publish it back to 
the WEB site when you are ready. I've not found any Linux tools that do 
this quite as cleanly as Dreamweaver.

Hence, I resorted to buying a copy of Crossover and installing 
Dreamweaver MX, and it works a treat. Note that this is the only version 
of Dreamweaver that the Crossover people will support.

I was also limited by having existing sites that had been developed with 
Dreamweaver, using its template mechanism, so I was in some way forced 
to carry on with Dreamweaver.

You could probably get DW to work under WINE, but there is a bit of work 
to do to get it right.

Regards,
Tony.
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