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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:42 pm    Post subject: Looking for alternative to MS FrontPage Reply with quote

I'm making the dive into Linux, and am moving my primary computer entirely off WinXP and onto Gentoo.

I run several small websites for hobbies, and most of them are collaberative projects with other users. The catch is, I've been using MS FrontPage to do these sites, as the users I have been working with are not Webheads, and I have pretty much set them up where I can design and impliment the site, and they can edit it in FP with minimal difficulty once it's live.

Is there a Gentoo-useable alternative to FP that is good for such things? I'm mostly curious if there is a Linux-based editor that will work with FP extensions, so I don't have to lose any of the capabilities I already have in place.

I am NOT looking for answers like "Yeah, drop FP, it sux!". If I could, I would, but the reality of the situation is that I need to maintain FP as an option on the server for my other users, and I'd like to find a way that allows me to use what I have to the best of it's capabilities. (I'm using ICDSoft.com as my Hosting Provider, not my own hand-built-server, so I don't have much control over the server side of things at this point.)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

may wanna look into cross over office were you can run office XP under linux its not open source nor is it free but its in alturnative
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:51 pm    Post subject: NVU Reply with quote

i think what you want is NVU

its not as 'wow' bluefish but
its a wysiwyg

erm, search for NVU on mozilla
its very beta
and has no installer
but
it works
and its kinda neet
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Screem
Bluefish
Quanta
Ginf

Try looking for those. ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I should mention I'm running KDE, not Gnome... will this affect the packages I choose? (It seems Bluefish is Gnome-dependant?)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:37 pm    Post subject: Tip: Styles can be applied quickly to selected text. Reply with quote

I hear that Quanta is an okay WYSIWYG for KDE.

Personally, I think that Nvu is the best Linux WYSIWYG currently available. I can't wait for them to put in a good CSS editor, though...
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:12 pm    Post subject: mm Reply with quote

those programs are not "wysiwyg"

frontpage is a metaprogram.. does alot more then just
convert screen layout to html

however, frontpage cannot do what quanta and bluefish doo

but the progrma you want
as i said before
is

NVU

take a look
u'll see

for for now, its free
they may charge for it later on
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:29 pm    Post subject: Re: mm Reply with quote

mahir wrote:
NVU

for for now, its free
they may charge for it later on
NVU is based on the mozilla composer code, and as such is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. The intent of its coders is to be a firefox/thunderbird-esque rewrite of Composer to eventually be given back to the mozilla.org people.

speaking of, anyone have an ebuild for nvu?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Holy crap dude, watch the line breaks :)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are a few alternatives on this list:
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml

But i haven't tried any WYSIWYG editors yet...
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:52 pm    Post subject: mm Reply with quote

i personaly use QUANTA


i am in gnome
and i had to install kdelibs and stuff but
it has a button
where it goes to "preview" mode
its neeeeeeet!
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:08 pm    Post subject: update. Reply with quote

i noticed that i am actually better at writing code.

so

now i use mp + dreamweaver in wine.
it works sweet


there is something called arachniphobia tho
its a java ap, but its nice!
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