kiddo
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Sorry for posting this in the Photography section, it's really more "development" related.
So for those folks who like getting their hands dirty making their own web pages, read on.
Right now, the "gotta have" tool for web designers is Dreamweaver. It's a really very good program, but also very expensive.
I've been playing around with a free program called Nvu and have been blown away by how good it is. In fact, in rendering complex CSS layouts, it blows Dreamweaver out of the water!
As in comparing Photoshop to The Gimp, there are lots of similarities between Nvu and Dreamweaver. And also many differences, however, Nvu so far has all the important features for creating good web pages without all the expense of Dreamweaver. I havn't yet run into any show-stopping missing features in Nvu either.
Nvu is available for Linux, Mac and Windows and you can check it out here: http://www.nvu.com/index.php
One thing that seems to be missing from Nvu is the ability to work with "live" data. ie: display info from a database while editing the page. But this isn't much of a loss considering that Dreamweaver doesn't do this very well anyway. (If you need to do this, check out Zend Studio)
Again, sorry for posting this here but I know some of the groups techie folks read this forum.
Kiddo
So for those folks who like getting their hands dirty making their own web pages, read on.
Right now, the "gotta have" tool for web designers is Dreamweaver. It's a really very good program, but also very expensive.
I've been playing around with a free program called Nvu and have been blown away by how good it is. In fact, in rendering complex CSS layouts, it blows Dreamweaver out of the water!
As in comparing Photoshop to The Gimp, there are lots of similarities between Nvu and Dreamweaver. And also many differences, however, Nvu so far has all the important features for creating good web pages without all the expense of Dreamweaver. I havn't yet run into any show-stopping missing features in Nvu either.
Nvu is available for Linux, Mac and Windows and you can check it out here: http://www.nvu.com/index.php
One thing that seems to be missing from Nvu is the ability to work with "live" data. ie: display info from a database while editing the page. But this isn't much of a loss considering that Dreamweaver doesn't do this very well anyway. (If you need to do this, check out Zend Studio)
Again, sorry for posting this here but I know some of the groups techie folks read this forum.
Kiddo
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