Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:35:46 -0800 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web authoring tools? Message-ID: <34F0EE92.185070B1@ibm.net> References: <19980222172817.20116@panix.com>
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> I am wondering what are the best tools for the FreeBSD platform (ports > collection or other) for web site development. > > TheGimp is a dream for creating the graphical content, but what about the > rest of the process? > > Of course, you can simply write html in vi or emacs. You can use Netscape > Communicator's own editor for very basic html. What else of importance is > available? > > How many people here develop web sites? What tools do you use? Larry, I've never gotten beyond (or felt the need to go beyond) emacs. I have some basic macros defined, but for my site work (which is far more Perl than HTML), emacs does everything for me. Our site uses no frames, no Java, no backgrounds, just text, tables, JPEGs and a few animated GIFs. We made the decision a long time ago to go for speed and universality over pretty imagemaps, because our site is actually much more extranet than promo. Anything but HTML-3.2 is a moving target, and is unlikely to be useable everywhere. Most HTML is just cut and paste anyway, once you have the basic structure up. I do have a lot of on-the-fly generated pages, but again, that's Perl5 CGI. If you do get into complex animations and such, that's Java or Javascript, so again, a programmer's editor like emacs is it. You extend it enough to automatically generate your style elements like buttons and logo placements and non-html bullets, and beyond that it's all programming, not WYSIWYG. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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