[ale] Linux Website Builder

Robert L. Harris robert.l.harris at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 14:50:49 EDT 2016


Yeah, this is for my personal home page only for family back in Georgia.
It'll never be commercial and when it's in full update mode, it gets an
update once every 3-4 months.  I think the last update as of now is about 7
years ago.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:47 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:30:31 +0000
> "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >    Finally looking to update a VERY out of date website.  It
> > currently uses shtml and CSS pages and I would like to find a WYSIWYG
> > tool that'll do complete editing of the site, not one page at a time
> > or a page without formatting etc.
>
> Be careful what you wish for. 1996-2012 I authored Troubleshooters.Com
> with a succession of WYSIWYG editors: Netscape Gold, Netscape
> Communicator, Mozilla whatever, Bluegriffon. Then, when encountering a
> distro lacking in any working WYSIWYG HTML editor, I used Bluefish,
> which, as you mention, is just a text editor with zencoding and
> autocompletion and a few other HTML syntax knowledgeable helpers.
>
> And sometimes I had to edit pages made with the WYSIWYG programs, and
> holy crow what a mess. Tags thrown everywhere. Wrong tags, wrong use of
> tags, long-ago-deprecated tags. I mean really, <a name="whatever">.
> What century was that deprecated in?
>
> And this had consequences. For instance, Google recently boosted
> rankings for sites that are "mobile friendly", and business is
> business, so I had to make my most trafficked pages (and all new
> construction) "Mobile ready". For sites constructed with hand-picked
> HTML in Bluefish, it was pretty easy. For sites made with Mozilla
> compozer and Kompozer and Bluegriffon and all the rest of the WYSIWYG
> nonsense, it was impossible. I had to either not change them, or
> rewrite them from scratch.
>
> Yeah, WYSIWYG helps you get a page created pretty fast. But code in
> haste, repent in leasure.
>
> >
> >    I looked at bluefish but that doesn't seem to load full
> > pages/styles. For instance if I load the index.shtml I get the basic
> > background and nav bar but no text.  If I load the main page
> > ( included by index.shtml ) I get no formatting, style, etc.
>
> Like you said, Bluefish is just a text editor with some HTML smarts and
> helpers.
>
> >    It was originally created with VI but I'd rather try out a
> > comprehensive tool before I go back to that route.
>
> Vim has some zencoding plugins that make your task easier, but I'd
> recommend Bluefish.
>
> By the way, I'm coding my pages to Xhtml 4 strict, which in Bluefish is
> just a matter of a quick and simple wizard. With an Xhtml website,
> which I make sure is well formed XML, I can test with a little XML
> checker I made with Python. No matter how well it renders in the
> average browser, I don't upload it until it passes that XML check.
>
> One more thing: As you get more and more used to using CSS for
> appearance, and using attribute-less tags, makes HTML coding much
> easier and more maintainable.
> >
> > Suggestions?
>
>
> Bluefish is working for me. It's working so well that I just authored
> my last book in Bluefish and used a Python program to convert it to
> pure, validated ePub:
>
> http://troubleshooters.com/twb/
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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