How to Design a professional website

coolguy_iiit · 04-28-2005, 03:59 PM

Hi,
I dont know which category is exactly suitable for this thread.

I need develop a website using html.The problem is its very difficult to exactly set the width of the td element in table etc.I got a recommendation to use CSS,xml etc...but i first need an intro of how to design to websites of this sort.I also want to know if there is any automated tool like microsoft publisher in linux...or a tool by which we can design a webpage like a form in the QT and the automatically generated in the back ground.

waiting for ur reply,
cooooooooooool

win32sux · 04-28-2005, 04:09 PM

try mozilla composer:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

or maybe bluefish:

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

masand · 04-28-2005, 04:09 PM

try

mozilla web composer

the links in my signature below are made using that only

regards

spoody_goon · 04-28-2005, 04:11 PM

Ok I am sorry to say the best web designing tool are Macromedia which are not YET available for Linux, However Bluefish and Quanta have worked well for me in Linux.

masand · 04-28-2005, 04:15 PM

also u can follow the

WYSIWYG html editor

section here

http://govinda.no-ip.com/linux_iips/linux_win.html

regards

devilkin · 04-28-2005, 07:34 PM

You could also try whatever you use under windows (publisher, shudder....) and try running it through wine...

win32sux · 05-02-2005, 07:56 AM

there's also nvu: http://www.nvu.com/

theYinYeti · 05-02-2005, 09:52 AM

Actually, writing a web site correctly happens as much in CSS files, as it does in HTML files. And before anything else, you have to understand the web, and its constraints.

Open this page with Firefox:
http://yves.gablin.club.fr/art/index.php
Now I ask to you: How complicated is the HTML code? How many widths are written in the code? How much Javascript was necessary to make this page possible?

Think about it, and then look at the source code (right-click > "View page source"). Is what you see what you expected?
Now try and see this same page with "links" or "lynx": everything's still there (except maybe images).

If you found this instructing, or at least interesting, you might want to consider abandoning any WYSIWYG tool. IMO, WYSIWYG is opposed to WWW.

Yves.

(BTW, I'll soon release the framework, with which I wrote my web site, under the GPL licence. I'm writing the documentation now.)

win32sux · 05-02-2005, 10:12 AM

that's like if someone asked for a nice and fluffy GUI oriented distro and you'd suggest slackware or crux and also throw in a plug for your slackware/crux-based distro while you're at it...

he specifically asked for a "tool like microsoft publisher"...

=)

theYinYeti · 05-02-2005, 10:25 AM

True, but there's a difference. IMO, GUI-oriented distributions are nice for many users. An OS is primarilly made for running applications, not for developing/designing things, even though Linux is good at that. So if you want to do office work and create some pictures with Gimp, and your Mandrake or Suse "works out of the box", you won't change the OS anyway, you'll just use it.

Now with a web site, you actually design it, and create it, starting from nothing. He wants a "professional" web site, and he's talking about CSS (rightly so), and XML (why not, but think twice...). I'm answering to those words in his post.

I'm actually suggesting him to practise and get comfortable with HTML4.01, XHTML1.0, and CSS1, and if possible with XHTML1.1 and CSS2. Then he'll write a much better web site, and he'll learn to take advantage of both the "wysiwyg" view AND the code view of the tool he'll choose. Only when you have this knowledge is Dreamweaver so much better than Frontpage is.

Yves.

win32sux · 05-02-2005, 10:43 AM

it's all good man, my post was actually meant to be somewhat humorous...

specially the part about the plug... ahem...

=)

theYinYeti · 05-03-2005, 02:12 AM

The plug? Like the little think hanging on the power cable to be put in the wall? I don't get what you mean...

Well. I didn't take anything bad. Opinions are always good to give as long as people remain correct (and somewhat objective, and on-topic). You did well. I hope I did too

I'm sorry if my words "sound" a little rough. English is not my mother-tongue... and I'm a little too tired to be that much carefull

Yves.

win32sux · 05-03-2005, 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by theYinYeti
The plug? Like the little think hanging on the power cable to be put in the wall? I don't get what you mean...

Quote:

A favorable mention or a picture of a product in the non-advertising portion of a media presentation. Examples of plugs are a Cheerio's box visible on a breakfast table in a film, a character in a TV movie drinking a Coca-Cola, or James Bond driving a BMW.

Quote:

An advertisement, not in the form of a formal ad, but usually a mention either written or in a publication or given verbally from the platform to help promote a product, service, or individual.

http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aplug

=)

theYinYeti · 05-03-2005, 08:27 AM

Now I get it. Well, maybe I'm a little too enthusiast about my web site

But honnestly, I don't get a penny for any visit there.
It's just that I write this web site as a consequence of the help I have given on Linux forums so far, so that I don't have to repeat myself over and over again. So it's just natural to me to link to parts of this site that may interest the poster.
I sincerely hope, that this free hard work will indeed be usefull to some. If not... at least it serves as a kind of note-pad to me, so that I don't forget how I did things.

Yves.