Topic: Best Web Program

[BrianC]

Anyone have an opinion as to wich is the best program for designing web sites to be hosted on an E-Smith Server
When I say best i mean easy to use with most features
I would Like to run ie design  on windows clients but host on E-Smith

[Paul Newby]

Well, I'm using Midgard (http://www.midgard-project.org) as a site design/management tool on e-smith 4.0.  I'd have to say
this is a bit of a stretch, since Midgard requires MySQL as well
as a patched (until the imminent new release) version of PHP,
and 4.0 had neither MySQL or any form of PHP installed.  
I expect that advances in both Midgard and e-smith will
make this a much more attractive and easily implemented option
in the near future (i.e., next month).

Paul N.

[Richard]

download 1st Page 2000 from EvrSoft.com

It's a fine free editor that runs on windows.
Quite frankly you can use any editor (Notepad, Dreamweaver, HomeSite, etc.) for building websites to host on the e-smith server

[Richard]

OK so hyperlinks don't work!

[Pierluigi Miranda]

BrianC wrote:

> Anyone have an opinion as to wich is the best program for
> designing web sites to be hosted on an E-Smith Server
> When I say best i mean easy to use with most features
> I would Like to run ie design  on windows clients but host on
> E-Smith

It depends on how well practiced in web design are you already...

Let me be earnest: if you are fresh in web design, the best web design tools are a text editor and an html manual.

If you are a web design master, use whatever you like - 1st Page (freeware) or Dreamweaver ($$$).

It could seem illogical, but keep in mind that every program you use has a personal and different view about how to write html, and if you have problems (like support of legacy browsers, just to say one), you will have to modify the "source" by hand - what if you have always relied on WYSIWYG html generators?

So is better to learn html the hardest way at first, and only after that start using web design packages.

Just a 0.02 cents opinion - Euro, not USD, so it's cheaper

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Pierluigi Miranda