[lug] Simple web development / HTML editors?

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 22:46, John Dollison wrote:
> What are some of the more popular HTML editors / web designers for Linux,
> that would be fairly easy for newbies to set up and use?  I did a Google
> search and came up with BlueFish, Quanta+, CoffeCup, and others.  Right now
> I need "ease of use" more than "rich features".


Hi John,

I've used and liked BlueFish.  But I keep coming back to Emacs.  Habit,
I guess since I use Emacs for so many things.

For a beginner, you can very easily produce HTML with either Open Office
(http://www.openoffice.org/) or AbiWord (http://abiword.com/).  Both of
these programs are quite intuitive for any former MSWord user.

Another good thing to use when producing HTML is the "tidy" program
(http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) or the very similar validator web page 
(http://validator.w3.org/) which is made available by the W3C folks. 
These tools are helpful as they can both clean up your HTML files and
help you learn how to produce truly standards-compliant documents.

hth,
Ed


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