Website design : what to use ?

[ulrich steffens]

i just saw an anouncement of amaya on gnomefiles.org.
its a browser/editor hosted by the w3c to create websites.
looks a bit ugly and complicated but its worth a try.
(downloading right now :)

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

from the website:
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Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents
directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with
the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This
follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and
not just a one-way publishing medium.

Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a
fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was
to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as
possible. It is used to demonstrate these technologies in action while
taking advantage of their combination in a single, consistent
environment.

Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it
was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications
such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those
vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.
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and btw, things like typo3 have nothing to do with website-creation.

ulrich

Am Samstag, den 08.01.2005, 10:04 +0100 schrieb 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....
> 
> 
> 
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- ulrich
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