[lug] Simple web development / HTML editors?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I too find myself irresistably drawn to Emacs for, well, just about
everything involving writing and editing text.  Except M$ Word
documents--that has turned out to be more trouble than it's worth. :-)

Emacs.  It's not an editor.  It's a way of life.

-d

On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 at 23:03:53 -0600, Ed Hill soliloquized thusly:
> 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.
> 

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