From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 29 19:16:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03182 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from natsiq.nunanet.com (root@natsiq.nunanet.com [199.247.47.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA03055 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@nunanet.com) Received: from morrigan (ppp-195.nunanet.com [199.247.47.195]) by natsiq.nunanet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA24040 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:09:29 -0400 Message-ID: <000501bda3cc$96ff1fc0$c32ff7c7@morrigan> From: "Marcel Mason" To: "freebsd-newbies" Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:22:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Gerchmez said: >Actually, there is no problem on the software side as far as Unix goes - in >fact, most of what costs in Windows you get free in Unix, and usually with >equal the features and triple the configurability. Honestly, how hard have you >looked for an HTML editor for Unix? Have you searched the Net thoroughly? >BTW, HTML is so easy to program, why not learn to do it by hand. You say you >like control over configurability, well, writing HTML by hand is a breeze and >gives you complete control over the layout and display of the pages. To me, >it's the only way to fly. I've had a fairly good look around (and actually found a few ftp sites with *nix software on them that I'm contemplating posting here someday) and found *almost* all the software I need. Many hours have, and still are, spent looking for available *nix software to do what I need to do. HTML *is* easy to code, the first sites I built were built completely with note pad. The usual swing followed to 100% wysiwyg editors which very soon lost their luster because while they were easy to use they took away too much control. The swing settled at programs like Arachnophilia & Galt WebMaster which give me the best of both worlds. * Type text * highlight text * click tag wanted on tool bar * done I work on corporate intranets a lot of the time, they don't want to pay for the time it takes for people to type in every tag by hand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message