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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALEXANDER
TOLSTOY
job: Freelance tech
journalist and Linux
administrator
areas of expertise:
Open-source desktop
software, libre graphics
and imaging
change their habits. To make the transition more
comfortable, we introduce this curated list of native,
specialised Linux applications that aid in writing
HTML, CSS, JavaScript and any other sort of code, as
well as provide features for composing objects and
testing a site layout. We’ve selected the most notable
and useful applications that are worth your
attention. Some of them are free and open source,
others cost money, but there is no obvious
dependency between the quality and the price. Let’s
look closer at what’s available.SEAMONKEY COMPOSER
https://www.seamonkey-project.org
Seamonkey Composer is one of the easiest to
use website builders and has a great
compatibility with Mozilla products. The application
is a WYSIWYG editor with three modes: document
editor, markup explorer and source-code editor. In
the simplest case, a user can just arrange text,
images, tables and other objects without writing a
single line of code, similar to what a text processor
like MS Word provides. Seamonkey Composer will
automatically create an appropriate HTML markup,
which will be enough for static web sites. Obviously,
most modern web projects use a lot of JavaScript and
other remote scripts but that does not make
Composer useless. You can still prepare a basic
design with it and master the rest of your projects
with other tools. By default, Composer stores all
rich-text formatting and styles right inside the plain
HTML code but it is possible to tell Composer to use
CSS styles and later outsource it to a separate file.
There is also the nice Preview tab, which renders a
browser-like preview of your project live, as if it was
loaded in a web browser. The browser part is the
Gecko-based Seamonkey Navigator, which does not
differ much from Mozilla Firefox in terms ofPICK THE PERFECT
LINUX WEB-DEV TOOL
Alexander Tolstoyy explores what tools are available to developers using
Linux and helps you choose which is best for your project
In our rapidly changing world, boundaries
between different operating systems are often
subtle, which is good news for web masters who
consider using Linux on their development
workstations. Content creators that come from
Windows and macOS often expect to continue using
their professional-level software like Adobe
Dreamweaver in Linux but find that it is not
available there. Although it is possible to run many
Windows applications (including Dreamweaver) in
Linux via Wine, the experience and desktop
integration will not be the same. The state of
software availability in Linux is constantly
improving, with many commercial products being
released nowadays for all major platforms –
Windows, macOS and Linux – but potential switchers
should be willing to compromise and sometimesBelow Seamonkey
Composer is a WYSIWYG
editor with three modes:
document, markup and
source-code editors