Comments on: (BlueFish & NVU) vs Dreamweaver: A Linux Web-Publishing (brief) review-comparison

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:59:10 +0000

I agree. It really depends on who uses the app. It can, indeed, create very tight code.

By: Ron Boyd

Ron Boyd — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:54:58 +0000

If you say that DW leaves bloated code then you don’t know how to use it correctly..
I actually use DW (as an optimizer) to strip out all the useless code that designers put in. It can do very tight coding.. It depends on who’s using it.
As a Website management tool and design tool there’s nothing that compares…

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:46:59 +0000

I’ve been doing web design and dev for 12 years and still think Dreamweaver is awful. I always look at the source of a web site and as soon as I see mm_ I know there’s going to be 5 times more code in the page than necessary. If you want to build slow, code bloated sites, use Dreamweaver. Otherwise use something that doesn’t try to do the job for you, i.e. just learn (X)HTML instead, it’s not hard!

By: Sashock

Sashock — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:19:10 +0000

Kompozer and Quanta replace Dreamweaver. Quanta the best to me.

By: sofwan

sofwan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:54:51 +0000

There is another great tool in web and already used for Java and C, it’s eclipse. I use it for PHP programming language currently besides Kate, before that i ever use Bluefish and Quanta. Yes, Linux is a paradise for coders, there are so many tool for coders.
Nvu, i will use it.

By: Yohans

Yohans — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:03:13 +0000

== quanta ==
“An eventual goal is to have a structural template design mode to deal with site layout and structure which you could use to design and interactively update your sites. If you would like to be involved, check out our help wanted page.”
http://quanta.sourceforge.net/quantadoc2/templates.html

== kompozer ==
.. is a more up to date fork of NVU with bug fixes. So use Kompozer rather than NVU. Neither Kompozer or Quanta are able to automatically update a website after a template is modified [well, I ouldn't find any evidence], and this is what makes templates so valuable in Dreamweaver.
http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/ugs07.htm

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:03:09 +0000

I was able to load Dreamweaver in WINE. Haven’t completely tested all the features like server stuff.. but it appears to work just fine to edit/save.

By: JayB

JayB — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:17:07 +0000

There is no open source “all-in-one” replacement for Dreamweaver. However, one can use a combinaison of tools very efficiently.

Nvu (see Kompozer) with a few extensions and a proper use of tidy can do a lot for most people. However, editing source code is very inconvenient and the template mecanism can not update existing files.

To edit source code and more, there are plenty of good tools : Bluefish, Quanta Plus, Eclipse, Netbeans, Vim, etc.

To edit images or image maps, you will also need an external editor.

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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:59:49 +0000

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By: Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:40:44 +0000

Nvu has been discontinued, I had blogged about it after an interview with the developer

http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/what-lies-ahead-for-nvu/