George’s Wonder Blog

Okay, I’ve gotten started with the Quanta HTML editor because Bluefish just didn’t do it for me. Mainly there was no color picker, and I’m not going to use an external program, my memory, or a website for colors.

So Quanta is installed and in action here:

This is pretty cool because its also my first time using GIMP. Simple image re-size was the order for the day, but it was pretty cool to be using 100% free software to do all of this. SO here are the beginnings of my web design suite on my linux machine:

• Quanta HTML Editor
  http://quanta.kdewebdev.org
  installed with command line:
  $ sudo apt-get install quanta
• GIMP (came pre-installed on my system)
  http://www.gimp.org/
  can be installed from command line:
  $ sudo apt-get install gimp
• gFTP
  http://gftp.seul.org/
  $ sudo apt-get install gftp

The workflow is different with Quanta + gFTP + Photoshop than it is for Dreamweaver, but its easy enough to get used to. First off, I don’t have a dual monitor setup on my linux machine yet, so I’ll rely on virtual desktops to separate Quanta + gFTP from GIMP.

More later, I think this is off to a decent start.