Quanta Plus
Well once again I've decided to document my Ubuntu play.
This time it's with just my search for a decent web development tool. This basicly started with my desire to work on doing some basic web editing, and noticing a program called amaya which my initial research indicated that it was promising for a novice like my self. (I say novice because I haven't used Dreamweaver in about 8 years, back when meta tagging was the norm)
I looked at reviews of several programs, including Linux staples of suggestion like Nvu, Bluefish and Seamonkey. I have yet to download or test any of these. the simple reason being is there is no need. Nvu is based on Mozilla Composer but beefed up, which means that it is a little better then microsoft front page, but no where near the level I'm going to be looking for, and that was very clear from looking at the programs own website, not to mention any review of it. Bluefish is a powerful webeditor with CSS and PHP abilities, but it was ruled out as soon as I learned of it, though I will most likely install it due to some of it's capabilities. There is no WYSIWYG component to Bluefish at all.. this means no distractions.. it also means not for a novice.
I did discover Quanta Plus a program I had intially dismissed due to it being a opensource free version of Quanta Gold and thus I assumed less good. I was wrong, I have read that it has basicly all the more important features of Dreamweaver including template support, and decent project management features. This is important for my planned test usage of it. Though I'm kinda concerned that it is KDE (Linux uses one of three GUI's KDE, Gnome or Xfce, Ubuntu uses Gnome, thus Quanta may not work totally right in the enviroment) though it should be generally fine.
Once I finish some spreedsheet work I'm going to give Quanta a good do around. Being that I can convert my Impress presentations to Flash I'll most likely be playing with that feature as well. Though much less so would be handy for banners though.
If anyone knows of a particular feature that would be good to test let me know.
I've also started looking at personal finance managers, a program type that is generally alien to me. The last one I used was written in qbasic, in 1992.
This time it's with just my search for a decent web development tool. This basicly started with my desire to work on doing some basic web editing, and noticing a program called amaya which my initial research indicated that it was promising for a novice like my self. (I say novice because I haven't used Dreamweaver in about 8 years, back when meta tagging was the norm)
I looked at reviews of several programs, including Linux staples of suggestion like Nvu, Bluefish and Seamonkey. I have yet to download or test any of these. the simple reason being is there is no need. Nvu is based on Mozilla Composer but beefed up, which means that it is a little better then microsoft front page, but no where near the level I'm going to be looking for, and that was very clear from looking at the programs own website, not to mention any review of it. Bluefish is a powerful webeditor with CSS and PHP abilities, but it was ruled out as soon as I learned of it, though I will most likely install it due to some of it's capabilities. There is no WYSIWYG component to Bluefish at all.. this means no distractions.. it also means not for a novice.
I did discover Quanta Plus a program I had intially dismissed due to it being a opensource free version of Quanta Gold and thus I assumed less good. I was wrong, I have read that it has basicly all the more important features of Dreamweaver including template support, and decent project management features. This is important for my planned test usage of it. Though I'm kinda concerned that it is KDE (Linux uses one of three GUI's KDE, Gnome or Xfce, Ubuntu uses Gnome, thus Quanta may not work totally right in the enviroment) though it should be generally fine.
Once I finish some spreedsheet work I'm going to give Quanta a good do around. Being that I can convert my Impress presentations to Flash I'll most likely be playing with that feature as well. Though much less so would be handy for banners though.
If anyone knows of a particular feature that would be good to test let me know.
I've also started looking at personal finance managers, a program type that is generally alien to me. The last one I used was written in qbasic, in 1992.