Web Design in Ubuntu

[larry]

Using Kompozer which is good for basic tables but I want to put stuff in tables and it's hell to manipulate images in tables - that's not tables are for, I know! - looking like crazy for a solution.

Are there any easy to use programs out there for linux?

[d000hg]

Eclipse surely has some plugins, but are you looking for something for use by a software developer, or purely visual drag/drop design?

[larry]

Drag/Drop design for me!

[d000hg]

Drag/Drop design for me!

Are you sure Linux is the best OS for you?

[larry]

Good question! I've been offered a 'copy' of Dreameaver, which is available for Windows. Think I'll have to go dual-boot.....

[yorkshireman]

I am not quite sure I understand quite what you are trying to achieve here.

But, If you are trying to display many images in HTML tables I would be tempted to write a PHP script which read the directory index and built the HTML automatically.

But some other Wysiwyg editors on LINUX are:

-Bluefish Bluefish Editor : Home
-Aptana Aptana
-Sea-Monkey The SeaMonkey® Project
-Quatana Quanta Plus Home

[tenpin]

Good question! I've been offered a 'copy' of Dreameaver, which is available for Windows. Think I'll have to go dual-boot.....

Just install VirtualBox (VirtualBox), then Windows, and install DW in that. Dual booting is a PITA

[bogeyman]

Why are you using Linux to do web dev, if you cannot even hand-code HTML?

Talk about doing it the hard way.

By the sound of it, "put stuff in tables" means you are using table markup for layout, which is such a bad idea Larry.

Sorry. I don't wish to sound narky, but if you want a Dreamweaver-like WSYWIG web buiding tool, or FrontPage, then go just with Windows.

If you're doing basic web dev in Linux, just use a LAMP stack and your editor of choice - BlueFish (as mentioned above) is a good one, or God forbid, vim.

Learn the markup language, not the tool you use to make it.

[Sysman]

Sorry. I don't wish to sound narky, but if you want a Dreamweaver-like WSYWIG web buiding tool, or FrontPage, then go just with Windows.

What bogeyman said (but please not FrontPage).

If you want something legit rather than "a copy", there is other stuff out there. One of my customers who is fairly PC illiterate has knocked up a nice looking web site very quickly with Xara Web Designer 6. On offer at 39 quid at the moment and at that price I am tempted even though I don't need it at the moment. 30 days free trial available.

[TheFaQQer]

Use vi.

It's the future of web development.