Friday, July 14, 2006
Webspace for next to nothing
The Sydney Morning Herald says that Adobe's Dreamweaver is the gold standard for creating good-looking websites from scratch. The $600 or thereabouts price tag is a sound investment if you plan to spend a lot of time manipulating the HTML code used to build web pages, but it's a lot of money to pay for the occasional foray into cyberspace.
But a reader from the Central Coast Seniors Computer Club suggested they papers editors and the readers look at look at NVU, pronounced N-view. It's a freeware web design program based on the Mozilla technology used by the Firefox browser. You can download it at http://www.nvu.com and there are versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Although NVU is free, it's an impressive, though still evolving, competitor to Dreamweaver. The software appears to have been designed so people can get reasonable websites running quickly without having to learn the mysteries of HTML. One of the downfalls according to article in the paper is that it doesn't make easy for slightly more confident web designers to get into the code and hand-tweak things. This definitely important for hiend developers and after I used the program myself I found I quickly went back to dreamweaver.
I found myself agreeing with the articles writer the package does seem unfinished but like most open source products, they tend to be in a state of flux and constant evolution. It will one day soon be a serious contender in the web creation industry. But not yet!
Full story at http://www.smh.com.au/news/home-office/cyberspace-for-peanuts/2006/07/12/1152637733264.html
But a reader from the Central Coast Seniors Computer Club suggested they papers editors and the readers look at look at NVU, pronounced N-view. It's a freeware web design program based on the Mozilla technology used by the Firefox browser. You can download it at http://www.nvu.com and there are versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Although NVU is free, it's an impressive, though still evolving, competitor to Dreamweaver. The software appears to have been designed so people can get reasonable websites running quickly without having to learn the mysteries of HTML. One of the downfalls according to article in the paper is that it doesn't make easy for slightly more confident web designers to get into the code and hand-tweak things. This definitely important for hiend developers and after I used the program myself I found I quickly went back to dreamweaver.
I found myself agreeing with the articles writer the package does seem unfinished but like most open source products, they tend to be in a state of flux and constant evolution. It will one day soon be a serious contender in the web creation industry. But not yet!
Full story at http://www.smh.com.au/news/home-office/cyberspace-for-peanuts/2006/07/12/1152637733264.html
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 11:34 PM 
