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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] low end web site authoring tools
  • Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:26:27 -0400

BBedit - it doesn't suck.


----- Original Message -----
From: "David R. Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org>
To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] low end web site authoring tools


> Calvin --
>
> i highly recommend coding all of your pages with vi or BBEdit. this
> way, you can maintain the highest level of precision control over ever
> page in your kingdom. not to mention the added side benefit of having
> people fear you at parties.
>
> if we are talking bottom-basement GUI tools, then i would have to
> recommend Composer which comes bundled free with both Netscrape and
> Slowzilla. you can do a lot of completely basic things and even change
> the background color of the pages. one killer feature of this tool is
> that it is guaranteed to crash the instant you have created the
> ultimate web page.
>
> slightly up the food chain is DreamCleaver by MicroMedina. this is
> some kooky California company that cannot copy-protect their software
> for sh*t. you should be able to do about anything with this tool --
> clicky the buttons and suddenly you've got an image on your page;
> clicky another button and you've got three floating DIVs and a
> CSS-driven sports page! the sky is truly the limit with DreamCleaver!!
>
> FrontPage is good, but we all know you have to resign your soul to hell
> to use it. there are some other mish-mash tools out there that you
> couldn't figure out how to use if your life depended on it (Stone
> Design, i'm looking at you). i wonder how in the world some of these
> companies stay in business.
>
> then there are always the communist tools of web oppression - blogger,
> moveable type, etc, etc. using these tools is like saying "Hey, I
> don't really give a crap. So what if my blog looks exactly like every
> other one on the planet? At least I don't have to think -- and look, I
> can just click on a web page to make a web page." that line of
> thinking just never made sense to me.
>
> i think the bold maneuver would be to go completely offline. yeah,
> straight back to print! screw the web! it will be dead in a few years
> anyway, so why waste time using it when you could already be jumping on
> the next train? i think you should print out all your content on
> flyers and hand them to passers-by at the local food mart or truck
> refueling station. those people are high-brow content subscribers, so
> you can be sure your audience will be impressed by such delivery
> mechanisms.
>
> i'm just trying to think outside of the box, is all.
> dave m.
>
> On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 01:16 PM, Calvin Powers wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'd be interested in hearing Internetworker's recommendations for low
> > end web site authoring tools. I need a tool for authoring my personal
> > web site. There will be no dynamic content from a server perspective.
> > But I'd appreciate a tool that can do things like keep track of a
> > bunch of movie reviews that I have written and generate static
> > navigation tools to index them, etc.
> >
> > I used to use Front Page but I recently got rid of it because a) I
> > didn't quite have a valid license for it :-) b) I thought it sucked
> > and c) I'm striving to be an MS-Free zone.
> >
> > Anyone got any recommendations.
> >
> >
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