A Review of Linux Web Development Tools

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Vim and Emacs

Vim and Emacs are no development tools, but they offer a range of options for editing HTML and, in fact, a language that you may be using for web development. They both support emphasizing syntax (HTML, PHP, Python, Perl, CSS, and many others) and provide support for editing files on remote computers. Both programs are very versatile and can be widely adapted because they support a number of scripts and extensions to extend their functionality. However, both programs are complex tools and present a learning curve very steep.

OOo Writer / Web (Web OpenOffice.org)

It is possible to know a simple web page without having to write all the HTML tags using Open Office tool to create your own canvas. It would be a very simple page, in fact, because this is not the CSS, or forms, to support, for example. I do not recommend using this tool for a complete website, because the code is generated, it is sometimes unnecessarily complicated, it could present a nightmare in the future, manipulate and transform a large project that was originally created Web with OpenOffice. But not a single page, why?

SeaMonkey (formerly Mozilla Netscape Composer Composer ex)

The open source SeaMonkey Composer is based on the venerable Netscape Composer, it is now integrated into the SeaMonkey suite. It is a simple WYSIWYG editor that generates clean code – unlike many commercial WYSIWYG editors. Unfortunately, it is not very powerful, and only partially supports CSS. SeaMonkey Composer is an appropriate tool for a beginner to web design who want to create a website very simple.

Kompozer

On Linux, Mac and Windows, Kompozer on Mozilla Composer, it shares a relatively similar interface is based. But a tool is now much more advanced in the attempt to maintain a non-web-scary concept for new entrants into the design. The documentation is good and the community is active, so if you have questions or problems, help is not far! Although SeaMonkey does not have many features WYSIWYG with Kompozer you can create almost an entire website to stay pure WYSIWYG. But if you want to add some code manually, it is possible, in a second tab between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using skipping. The preview mode uses the Gecko engine (Mozilla, Firefox) web pages to do. While the code is clean, it is still necessary to test your websites against a less compliant web browsers like Internet Explorer 6, for example. It has an easy to use FTP client integrated quickly files on your webspace. Support for forms, tables and models is very good, but CSS is not perfect and it is not currently supported server side language like PHP. Finally, it must, for now, is somewhere between Kompozer tools like Frontpage (Kompozer produces better code) and Dreamweaver (yes, it splits!): This is a good tool for web development beginners or advanced user but must be adapted and refined to support server-side language, if it is the best web editors for Windows systems approach, for example.

Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus is an easy to use HTML editor and Web development tool primarily for the K Desktop Environment developed (even if it works on almost any environment). Unlike Bluefish, Quanta is the ability WYSIWYG design and coding manual. It supports a variety of languages, and its syntax and control are excellent. It is code folding and the highlighted line. The features are also included: templates, document structure, project management, care, support DTDs, etc., integrated FTP client and a preview function, so that the results of your work while you work. There is also a commercial version called Quanta Gold, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, with more features. For users of Gnome, KDE Quanta Plus, a little hard to watch the site, but this is very minor (Note: This is not the case with Quanta Gold, because it is based on the QT).

Quanta Plus is gratuitous amounts of gold will be $ 39.95 (download) and $ 49.95 (CD set).

Screem

Screem is an environment of open source web development for use with the GNOME desktop environment written (it can also be used on other window managers, though). Screem supports Dreamweaver templates and offers a number of assistants to help with the addition of multimedia content. It does not offer WYSIWYG display of pages and is more for advanced users.

Bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor and web pages easy and open source programmers and designers of Web sites targeted, with many options to write scripts and programming code. Browser integration is good and has a very good support for HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, Pearl, C, JavaScript, and even … Pascal or Octave / MATLAB! As the developers say on their site, it is a “what you see is what you” interface, it is not a tool for absolute beginners on web design (and n was never meant to be!) And it is not graphical view (you can start the quick / external browser by clicking) on the appropriate icon. An important feature is missing FTP integration. Otherwise, it is far my favorite editor!

Amaya

Amaya is the W3C international standards for the World Wide Web – Web Browsers and help editor. Although it is theoretically a package WYSIWYG interface is rather confusing and not well developed. Finally, this May program is relatively unstable.

Dreamweaver

There is no native version of Dreamweaver in Linux, which is not officially supported. However, Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver 8 run well with wine or an emulator. Dreamweaver is now ultra-dominant web design package for Windows and Mac OS: It is often excellent and very expensive.