Bluefish Tutorial

[trilarian]

I'm once again going to try and venture into some basic web design. I have made very rudimentary pages with Dreamweaver and setup prefabricated pages like phpBB in the past, but would like to stick with Linux - so have eyed up Bluefish.

Do any of you have any links to tutorials - both for using Bluefish and design basics? I'm thinking of a rather simple site for starters (i.e. menu bar, a few pages with text and pictures, main page with events/blog/etc.). I'd like to learn how to do it from scratch and not just load up a template and swap out pictures.

I already have a good understanding of how to work the technical network side of things (Apache, DNS, port forwarding, etc.). I am, however, completely lacking on the design side of it.

Any help is appreciated.

[deathadder]

Have you looked at the bluefish homepage? Theres a manual here:http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/manual/

Although I'm guessing you're looking for something more like this: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/manual/pt02.html

Once you get past the initial setup section, you start looking at using projects within blue fish and some of the more interesting stuff it can do.

As for design...if you know about good HCI practices then you should be alright.

[trilarian]

Second link should give me enough to read over - though that will have to wait for next week. Halloween parties tonight - which means I get to see my girlfriend in a corset - which ultimately means I won't be thinking about web design.:D

I'm sure I'll return with questions sometime next week~

[trilarian]

So far I think Bluefish may be more of a glorified text editor than a designer. I'll keep it around to play with and maybe even use for writing scripts, but I think Quanta (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/) is closer to a WYSIWYG interface.