who here does web design in linux

[santino]

if so what programs do u use?

in windows i use dreamweaver,flash, photoshop
will i be able to run those in linux?

thanx

[bskahan]

This is a Frequently Asked Question. Take a look at the previous threads.

The brief answer is yes, lots of people do web design, no macromedia doesn't work on linux, and vim, bluefish, quanta+, and gimp do.

[Minnie000]

I was playing with Quanta in RH8, looks pretty good, as far as editors go. Does just about everything except the dishes! :p
Give it a try!

[hlrguy]

Openoffice has a built in WYSIWYG web creator. StarOffice has an even more powerful one with stylesheets, framesets, etc. There is nothing lacking in StarOffice's version. I use GIMP for animations (i.e. The optimize function is awesome, wish most pages would optimize their animations), xnview for creating auto-html pages of thumbnails (personal photos). You won't be able to run the one's you mention, but you don't need to.

StarOffice 5.0 is the free version and still available for VERY large download (I installed it from my Redhat 7.0 disks). xnview is free, gimp is free, OpenOffice is free, gove the OpenOffice HTM editor a spin.

hlrguy

P.S. As mentioned, search the forum. The above is what I use, hundreds of other programs exist.

[cage47]

I keep my old netscape 4.7 around for just this. I have the old rpm from Mandy 7.0 for my 8.2 install and I pulled the .debs from the storm linux cd for my debian 3.0. Both work fine. As a browser it's ancient but have yet to find anything to top it for WYSIWYG web editing. Created my site on it

http://web.netstartel.com/~cage47

[BaVinic]

Originally posted by bskahan
This is a Frequently Asked Question. Take a look at the previous threads.

The brief answer is yes, lots of people do web design, no macromedia doesn't work on linux, and vim, bluefish, quanta+, and gimp do.

Actually, that is not true, I have DreamweaverMX installed and it is working fine, you need to use Wine, but it does work.

( I wont lie to you, it does take some seriuos patients to get it installed).

Also, Photoshop 5.5 also works in Linux, again using wine, but that one is easy to do :-)

hope this helps a little.

BaVinic

[ViMan]

BaVinic, Why not post how you got DreamWeaverMX working in the "How I did it" section. I'm sure a lot of us would be interested in getting it running under Linux...

[Beaudificus]

Actually, you can run Flash and Dreamweaver using Wine.

Try out:

www.frankscorner.org

It may, as said here, take effort, but it is doable.

To be quite honest to you there are no options in Linux (yet) that equal the power of any Macromedia products. I hope this changes, but I've found that once you've used Macromedia's products, the rest of these WYSIWYG programs seem pale in comparison, IMHO.

In the end, its really all about getting what you pay for.

[Beaudificus]

Originally posted by ViMan
BaVinic, Why not post how you got DreamWeaverMX working in the "How I did it" section. I'm sure a lot of us would be interested in getting it running under Linux...

Info on this can actually be found on frankscorner.org.

Here's the direct link to the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX how-to:

http://frankscorner.org/wine/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=36&page=1

[BaVinic]

Originally posted by ViMan
BaVinic, Why not post how you got DreamWeaverMX working in the "How I did it" section. I'm sure a lot of us would be interested in getting it running under Linux...

Actually, I thought about it, but figured why not just post the link to where I got the information, you will have to work with it, but it is a great place to start Franks Corner (http://frankscorner.org/wine/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=36&page=1)

BaVinic

[BaVinic]

I guess more people know about frank than I thought ( hehehe )

BaVinic

[BaVinic]

Actually, you know, it is kind of funny, I installed it because I have it, but I don't do webpages, wouldn't know where to start.

I am going though this, "Let's see what we can install" phase :D it too will pass.

:)

BaVinic

[santino]

i checked out that frank site about wine

how do i chekc if i have wine installed already?

[BaVinic]

Originally posted by santino
i checked out that frank site about wine

how do i chekc if i have wine installed already?

easy

open a terminal window and type wine.

:)

BaVinic

[santino]

if i have an old version how do i unnistall it

[santino]

i tried installing wine and this is the error i got

[santino@localhost wine-20030115]$ ./tools/wineinstall
WINE Installer v0.74

Running configure...

chmod: changing permissions of `conf1884.sh': Operation not permitted
configure: creating cache config.cache
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for the directory containing the Wine tools... $(TOPOBJDIR)
checking for X... no
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
checking for yywrap in -lfl... no
checking for yywrap in -ll... no
checking for yacc... no
checking for bison... no
checking for yacc... no
configure: error: no suitable bison/yacc found. Please install the 'bison' package.

Configure failed, aborting install.

[BaVinic]

Originally posted by santino
if i have an old version how do i unnistall it

I am going to assume that the version you may have installed is an RPM version, so let's go from there.

First open a terminal window as either root, or as su ( konsole )
then type

# rpm -qa |grep WINE

write down whatever packages show up here then type:

# rpm -qa |grep wine

write down whatever packages show up here also. if nothing shows up in either of the two examples above, then you may have the taball version installed, and I will leave that one for some on else to answer. but I think it is RPM.

then type

# rpm -e <whatever showed up when you typed the above)

after you go through all the packages, just type wine at the console prompt. if you get the error command not found. you did good.

and as second check, run rpm -qa |grep WINE again

Hope this helps.

BaVinic

[BaVinic]

Originally posted by santino
[B]i tried installing wine and this is the error i got

[santino@localhost wine-20030115]$ ./tools/wineinstall
WINE Installer v0.74



you need to be logged in as root, or use the su command.


BaVinic

[santino]

i tired both of those and nothing showed up
it wasnt the rpm tho, it was a tar.gz and i extracted it and read the readme files and it said to use ./tools/wineinstall to install
and thenn thats when i get the error in the previous message

[ssjf]

This is a wine problem.

There are a billion posts on these boards.

I would suggest checking them out.

However: I use Bluefish and, Gimp. I don't belive in WYSIWYG.

Good luck with wine - you're gonna need it.

[santino]

i have checked around and i have found nothing so far

help please