Billie Walsh said the following on 02/26/2013 09:52 PM:
I build a lot of web pages for genealogy and history web sites. Quanta was the best editor ever. Still get a tear in my eye when I think about it. I now use Bluefish. I really didn't like it at first. I always liked to customize tags that I use all the time. In Quanta it was easy to customize tags. Bluefish is not particularly user friendly in this way. You have to edit an XML file named "snippets" to create custom tags. As I've gotten used to it Bluefish is alright. Would still rather have Quanta back.
Context is Everything. When I build for a web site I wouldn't dream of doing it page by page! I use a CMS. I prefer Radiant, but there are many others. YMMV. I use Radiant 'cost its the simplest; you may want to feed your Inner Geek and use something that demands more fiddling such as Drupal. Why a CMS? Ease of consistency and site management/level tools. I can use a simple markup language (RedCloth) and forget about HTML. The 'generator' does HTML. So why this thread? I recently asked about printing web pages to PDF files while preserving links. This is a step along the way. Some sites have an option to 'print' that uses different CSS and so eliminates the sidebars and adverts. I can do similar by editing the CSS with a FF plugin such as http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ But even so, sometimes the HTML needs a cleanup beyond what HTML Tidy can do. Why? Well if I use OpenOffice/LibreOffice to 'import' the page I can get it to make a PDF with working links. But those tools can't handle messy HTML. -- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org