More about webpage editing

[Jeff Mings]

Quanta is not a WYSIWYG editor, and allows you to work in raw HTML 
without the banalities of the grunt work.  For example, I often need to 
have multiple files open and copy snippets of code between them.  With 
Quanta, I merely select the paragraph or whatever with the mouse from 
one file, click on the (already open) file that I want to transfer to,  
and middle click where I want the code to be pasted.  It's much faster 
than using keystroke sequences, I can very easily look at and compare 
multiple files, and learning to use it took about 2 minutes.  Also, 
instead of typing out things like <font size=+1...   blah, blah, I can 
just click and drop.  If I didn't know all of the tags beforehand, I 
wouldn't be able to do that much, but I'm able to completely control the 
code in less time than if I used a plain editor.   Unlike a horrible 
program such as M$ Frontpage, which tries to hide the HTML from you, 
always mangles it and uses dumb M$-only code, Quanta (or Bluefish) 
allows full control with greater productivity.  It comes with a great 
built-in HTML reference as well, for those times when you can't remember 
the syntax for a particular form feature.

;)

-Jeff 


Mike Ballon wrote:

> I disagree, if you want to really learn html vi is the only way.  It's all color
> coded now to, I use nothing but.
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>> Kevin wrote:
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>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> What linux programs do you people use to edit webpages?  Also ftp, mp3
>>> and wav conversion, cdr burning?
>>> 
>>> Kevin
>> 
>> Steve McFarling suggested using vi for web pages, but that's 
>> unnecessarily harsh - he's a fanatical command-line devotee ;) .  I 
>> HIGHLY recommend quanta for HTML and PHP. 
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