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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