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[El Guru (Al)]

Does anyone know if Nvu supports Ubuntu?  The download options are a bit confusing to me:

    *  nvu-1.0-pc-linux2.6.10-gnu.tar.bz2 - Tarball built on Linspire 5.0 (Debian k2.6.10), gcc/g++ 3.3.5
    * nvu-1.0-pc-fedora3-kde.tar.bz2 - Fedora 3 tarball (KDE)
    * nvu-1.0-pc-mandriva10.1-gnu.tar.bz2 - Tarball built on Mandriva 10.1

Or is there another type of Front Page program for Ubuntu.  For the most part Nvu has worked well for in XP, but do have problems where it performs an illegal operation (or needs to shut down).

[Pieter]

It appears that the Nvu project has been discontinued:

As of the release of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), Nvu, a fully graphical web design program, is no longer available in the Universe repositories, since the Nvu project has been discontinued. Nvu has been revived with a new name, though--it's now called Kompozer.

Here's the bad news: because Kompozer is so spankin' new, there's no installer for it yet. You'll have to follow these instructions to install it. It's not that hard, especially if you've worked with the terminal before. And even if you haven't, as you only have to type in some commands.



If you don't want to go through any of that stuff, perhaps you could try Bluefish. It's not a WYSIWYG editor, which means that you'll have to learn to code HTML pages first.



Quanta Plus is another possibility. This one is a WYSIWYG editor, but it looks a little complicated. You'll have to see what you like most.



Still haven't found what you're looking for? Here's one more WYSIWYG tool.


Install instructions
Bluefish, Quanta Plus and Amaya can be installed using the Add/Remove... tool in the Applications menu.

[El Guru (Al)]

Thanks I'll check on these later.  I've done some stuff in the terminal so that doesn't bother me.  I had looked at the WinXP version of Kompozer before and it was very much similar to Nvu.

[Nogg3r5]

I'm just starting to get to grips with bluefish, It looks promising. I'm not really a fan of development environments like this, but I haven't found a more suitable solution yet.

[Ryan Wagner]

Out of those I've only used Kompozer before and I think it is pretty good. Managing the HTML is pretty easy there, but I'm normally not a big fan of WYSIWYG editors so I stick with some sort of text editor to do my coding.

[Pieter]

I'm not fond of WYSIWYG editors either. They have the tendency to mess up your HTML code...

[Nogg3r5]

I'm not fond of WYSIWYG editors either. They have the tendency to mess up your HTML code...

Yeah, I prefer to "get to know" my code

[Richard]

All i really use is "Notepad"

[Pieter]

All I use is gEdit. It supports color coding, which is really useful when you're editing big PHP/HTML files. On Windows, I prefer Notepad++.

[Nogg3r5]

Notepad++ is very good. Gedit is also quite good, I had a bit of a play with that the other day. It just doesnt work as well as notepad++

Ill have to look into getting notepad++ to work under Ubuntu

[Pieter]

It appears to run fine under Wine. I prefer native apps though.

[Nogg3r5]

It appears to run fine under Wine. I prefer native apps though.

Same. I dont really wanna install wine

[El Guru (Al)]

I got Kompozer installed an in theory I created a desktop icon following the directions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kompozer

But I can't seem to find it anywhere,

[El Guru (Al)]

I got Kompozer installed an in theory I created a desktop icon following the directions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kompozer

But I can't seem to find it anywhere,

Got that working now. I'm learning a lot today.  Just manually downloaded, installed and created a short cut for TBird 2.  Even moved my WinXP profile over to the Linux build.

[Pieter]

I'm learning a lot today.

Great! Toying around with all these things really do teach you a lot.

Even moved my WinXP profile over to the Linux build.

If you're willing to go the extra mile, you could even use the same profile on Windows and Linux at the same time. If you're interested: I wrote about it on my blog way back in January.