Web development on FC1

Martin Alderson fedora at martinalderson.co.uk
Mon Feb 16 14:21:49 UTC 2004


On 16 Feb 2004, at 14:13, Jason Dixon wrote:

>
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 8:43 AM, Martin Alderson wrote:
>>
>> On 16 Feb 2004, at 13:34, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>>
>>>  vim or (x)emacs. Highly commended.
>>
>> Your kidding, right?
>>
>> There is no way you can design a heavily graphical site using a text 
>> editor.
>
> That's a load of crap.  I'm not going to suggest that using text 
> editors suits everyone, but there's NOTHING stopping a talented 
> designer from coding sites "by hand".  It helps to ensure compliancy 
> with HTML/CSS and really allows the developer to become much more 
> familiar with the intracacies of his/her code.
>
> Obviously, some folks prefer the ease-of-user and management 
> capabilities of Dreamweaver, et al, but there are others who are just 
> as happy with vi, cvs and ssh.  Looking at your site, I don't see 
> anything that couldn't be rewritten in vi within a matter of hours.
>
> I still use vi and The Gimp on my Powerbook to design sites.  :)

Ok, basically I should of said 'design a heavily graphical site 
_efficently_.

I'm sure you can create a site with a text editor (and I do it 
sometimes over SSH if I'm out of measures) and it will work fine.

However, I use Dreamweaver because a) it has a half decent 'source' tab 
to edit with (which I do most  of my stuff in) and b) I can lay stuff 
out graphically without constantly having to redo CSS. Also, I find 
that being able to use split screen code and design view allows me to 
code as I usually would but also have the benifit of not having to 
save, go to a webbrowser and refresh every 15 seconds is a great 
benifit.

Also, there is a real lack of vector based graphic tools (like  
Fireworks) on Linux. I can't stand using The GIMP or Photoshop for 
anything more than editing a photo.

It's also good to see a fellow Apple user here :), btw.

Martin Alderson,
IntechHosting

Email: martin at intechhosting.co.uk
Web: http://www.intechhosting.co.uk





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