fedora-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 91

[George Hare]

> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:20:39 -0700
> From: Norm <maillist at sios.ca>
> Subject: Re: Web Development
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <4647E397.7010007 at sios.ca>
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>
> Dave Cross wrote:
> > On 5/11/07, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear friends,
> >>
> >> I am looking for a web development tool in Fedora. Until now, I have
> >> been using the Perl Template Toolkit, and I am wondering if there is
> >> something similarly powerful but more convenient.
> >>
> >> Particularly, what I like about PTT is that I can change a template
> >> and then re-generate all pages based on that template to reflect the
> >> change (other tools I know of have some sort of templates, but do not
> >> support such updates).
> >>
> >> Plus, I like automatic creation of sitemaps, navigation menus and
> >> display of data extracted from files.
> >>
> >> I WYSIWYG would be nice if it creates clean and not to complicated
> >> code (so that it is still conveniently human-readable).
> >
> > Oliver,
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by asking for something "more convenient".
> > Do you realise that the Template Toolkit is pre-packaged for Fedora.
> > It's in the Extras repository, so installing it is as simple as:
> >
> >  # yum install perl-Template--Toolkit
> >
> > It's also worth pointing out that there's a mailing list dedicated to
> > discussing TT at:
> >
> >  http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
> >
> > But, if you don't want to join that list then I'm happy to answer any
> > questions that you have about TT.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dave...
> >
> Depending on your level of comfort Composer in Sea monkey works as a gui
> .  Another approach is to rough it out in Open office and save as an
> html and lean it up in another program such as Seamonkey  or if you are
> comfortable working in the actual code itself Quanta is good to clean up
> the code. both can be installed via the smart package manger and
> probably yum as well Seamonkey is part of the Mozzilla projects and
> Quanta is under kdewebdev. there are others I just prefer these.


You are going a lttle over my head now and let me ask that others
please practice some self control and bicker with Norm on your own
time. He has been kind enough to help me, which is more than I can say
for you.

Sincerely,

George Hare