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I do a lot of web design, and personally, I find that doing all the HTML & CSS by hand is by far the easiest and least problematic method. The trouble with many editors is that the code they spit out is not fully cross browser compliant, and when you consider how many people are still using IE6, this becomes a major issue. Having said that, I've just been taking a look at Bluefish, which has the feature to add html tags on click, but in my opinion, the most important feature of any text editor is syntax highlighting. Gedit is brilliant from this perspective. The highlighting makes mistakes and typos very easy to spot and speeds up the development process no end. Good luck with your project Anthony Simon Waters wrote: > Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> I have a little experience with HTML and CSS. I have already set up a >> couple of web sites by typing in the code. The problem is that it is >> very tedious and open to typing errors, which can be difficult to find. >> >> I thought to look at some of the development packages including >> Bluefish, Amaya, Komposer, Quanta Plus. No doubt there are others. These >> seem rather too involved for what I need. (Or perhaps I need to give >> some more time to it.) What I am really looking for is a simple program >> to save me some of the typing, and so avoid typos. >> >> Anyone have any recommendations, comments etc? >> > > What type of website, what does it do, who will write the content, how > will it change, who will read it, and why? > > $DAYJOB is helping create and maintain website building tools, but there > are a whole host of ways of creating websites. > > For all but a few designers, I'd have thought writing HTML by hand is > probably the worst of the lot. If you can do the design, and CSS, then > the approach works and can create small pretty websites. If you do the > layout in CSS, then the content can readily be written using Abiword, or > other word processor with sensible HTML export features. The approach > (hand crafted) makes a certain amount of sense when you are stitching > together a load of disparate units and trying to create a cohesive > whole, but even then some of the content management systems do a better job. > > If folks just want to create the content, and leave layout and design to > someone else, then you want a template based system, be it a CMS or > something else. > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html