Thread: Web Dev on Linux?

I'm trying to build a web page for my father's business. I want to make something that he can easily edit later and he's not very computer literate so I want something drag and drop and WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver or iWeb. He uses Ubunut, is there any tools like that out there? I've tried Komposer and Quanta, but they're HTML editors, not drag and drop.

Aptana is an open source web IDE akin to Dreamweaver

but, like Dreamweaver, to use it properly you have to learn it

what does your dad want to do?
add & edit certain content (products, prices, descriptions, pictures, etc.)
or something more technical?

What I'm getting at, is would a simple CMS do?

set up a basic page structure with a sample CSS layout
data in database gets pulled in via php (or whatever)
admin interface allows him to add, delete & alter data

giving your dad a full blown Dreamweaver-esk web development application may be the wrong way to go. These things are designed by web developers for web developers, and your dad ain't a web developer

No, real web development isn't what he wants to do, just be able to build a simple web site for his business. Something more like iWeb would be the way to go.

Doesn't OOo have something comparable to Publisher? I can't find it?

I'll look at Aptana.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Doesn't OOo have something comparable to Publisher? I can't find it?

In Writer, just go new -> HTML document

Never used OO.o for doing webpages, so can't comment on the quality of it's output for complex stuff

You can also export slides from Impress to HTML
(again, never actually used this)

I've used Impress, but it's different than the OOo Presentation. Impress is Star Office.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I've used Impress, but it's different than the OOo Presentation. Impress is Star Office.

OOo and Star Office are largely one and the same, surely?

I use the Google-branded version of StarOffice 8 in Windows (although I have Office 2003 Proffesional pre-installed so use that more often, but - ) and OOo "We'll put the latest version in when Ibex gets released" in Ubuntu. Aside from the lack of pervasive Google logos everywhere, they are almost identical.