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  • From: Steven Hilton <mshiltonj AT libertystorm.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: " "http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] low end web site authoring tools
  • Date: 10 Apr 2003 17:18:33 -0400

There's BlueFish
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Homesite/BBedit -ish for Linux using gtk+

There's also GINF (Ginf is not Front page)
Needs a development community though.
http://www.symonds.net/~deep/stuff/vtu/ginf/

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 16:26, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> 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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> > > http://www.StuckInTraffic.com/
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> > > =
> >
> > --
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