[CS-FSLUG] Nvu

[Chris Brault]

Well,

>Brian Derr wrote:
>> Is this Nvu a WYSIWYG or an HTML (I use this term
lightly) IDE.  If
>> looking for an HTML editor, check out Bluefish.  It
rocks!  Straight
>> forward, easy to use HTML editor with lots of quick
shortcuts for
>> Doctype, etc.
>
>Bluefish? I got fed up with it when trying to use
css. I switched to
>Quanta - a much better editor.
>However, since I'm still getting dependency problems
on Debian amd64
>I've upped my bragging rights and use Kate now ;-)
>
I tried Screem, but it wasn't quite the interface I
wanted. In the end, 
it didn't have the short cuts I wanted and had alot of
other 
information/interface noise I didn't want. So I went
with Bluefish.

I used to use Kate. I never used Quanta. The reason I
use a GTK based 
html editor like Bluefish? Mainly because I don't want
to deal with the 
KDE dependencies (I'm an XFCE user).

That said, I use PHP, javascript, CSS and HTML for my
pages. I do 99% of 
my work by hand. I don't need nor want alot of
automated tools at this 
point. If I wanted automation, I'd use a commercial
app like dreamweaver 
("Wow mom, look, it's brochure ware!"). What I really
use (and need) is 
reference material. Bluefish has plenty of that (on
that note, Screem 
has just as much documentation on HTML, CSS, PHP,
etc).

I found that understand how CSS works disuaded me from
using the 
automated tools. Frankly, its just faster to do CSS by
hand than to try 
and use a CSS editor. A WYSIWYG editor is _always_
sloppier than doing 
by hand. And I always clean up my code in line my
current skill level. 
Of course, I could just be a code nazi, so use my
example.

My advice: Learn how to code. Its faster by hand,
especially for HTML + 
CSS. Now, for javascript and simple PHP there are so
many examples and 
prebuilt code sites out there ... maybe an editor with
some short cuts 
would help. I guess, in the end, that it depends how
how you code. 
Whether you are a clean coder or a functional coder in
a hurry.

Gabe



	
		
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