[SBE] ideal web development/publishing environment

[Jeff Carter]

I agree with you.  I mentioned Notepad simply because most people are
familiar with it and already have it on one machine or another
somewhere.  Also, in a pinch I use it myself when I'm on the road and
only have a MS laptop with me.  I can open a html file in Notepad,
make a change real quick, and upload to the server via ftp.  Not the
most secure arrangement in the world, but it has yet to be a problem.

I use OpenOffice here at work a good bit.

Free is good.

Jeff

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>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:32:41 -0400

>From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>

>Subject: Re: [SBE] ideal web development/publishing environment

>To: sbe member discussion mail list <sbe at sbe.org>

>

>On Thursday 14 August 2008 03:07 pm, Jeff Carter wrote:

>

>>  Of the ones I've tried, I'd have to suggest Dreamweaver.  It'll do

>>  nice things but the learning curve isn't as steep as learning to code

>>  HTML from scratch, and it doesn't generate as much extemporaneous crap

>>  inside pages as the Microsoft products seem to do.  You sacrifice

>>  control, but if you just want to get a page out there, Dreamweaver is

>>  probably your closest route.

>

> One might look at whatever browser one is using.

> Netscape ( earlier, and later, called Mozilla ) contained

> it's own HTML authoring tools, which were quite good.

> FireFox is a VERY stripped down version, and that's one

> of the things that got stripped out early.

>

> Open Office has an HTML export, as do many, many things

> these days, but I would avoid anything Micro$oft, as M$

> generates very non-standard and non-compatible stuff.

>

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