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Physicist Igor Ljubuncic writes about the dearth of offline graphical web editors. These used to be quite common, but all the established names are long gone and even some of the newer ones are looking neglected. He summarizes what's still available now in 2018 and the relative strengths and weaknesses of these remaining tools.
Once upon a time, there were dozens of WYSIWYG editors, all offering their own wonders, as well as their own range of inconsistencies, garbage code and functionality. I came across the old Nvu back in 2006, upgraded to Kompozer when this one came about, and kept on using it ever since in some form or another, as it offers the simplicity of writing stuff without having to worry about code, plus some serious usability benefits that no other program seems to offer. But then, Kompozer hasn't seen any updates in a long while, and some refresh is needed. What do we have on the table?
And I'll add in a general question, what is your preferred method of dealing with either HTML or CSS or both? Strangely mine is Emacs for the HTML and vi for the CSS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:30PM (2 children)
I was once turned down for a web development job because, although I could configure the web server and hand-write HTML and CSS and Javascript and PHP and Perl and run a SQL database, I had never used Dreamweaver. The manager wanted someone who knew Dreamweaver and not someone who could learn it in two weeks, so they started looking for a newbie from the local community college whose entire webdev experience was taking one course in Dreamweaver. I was unqualified.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:52PM
If you don't bother with the WYSIWYG features in Dreamweaver, it's basically a text editor with a built-in FTP client. You could have just lied.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:15PM
Are you me?
Similar experience, what made it more amusing in my case was that at one point in time there were 200 web servers in the UK, I ran five of them and set up 4 of the others and updated content, created graphics etc. on all of them..so one way or another in the early 90's I was responsible for 4.5% of the UK's servers and their content, to be then told no Dreamweaver experience, no job was, I suppose, a bit of a slap in the face, but I took it as more like the final sign that it was time to move on..