Lots of interactive software can create web pages, but most of those packages are either souped up text editors or glorified WYSIWYG applications. If you want to hand-code HTML, embed code, and preview your work, you typically have to bounce back and forth between specialized packages — such as BBEdit or TextMate and Dreamweaver on Mac OS X, and HTML-Kit on Windows.
But Penguinistas are quite fortunate, because Quanta,the best Web page editor available on any platform, runs on Linux. Quanta (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org) is part of KDE. If you use KDE, chances are that Quanta is already installed. Otherwise, find it using your distro’s packaging system and install it. If you use Ubuntu (or any Debian- based system), just type sudo apt-get install quanta, to install Quanta in a matter of moments.
To run the program, look for it on your KDE or GNOME menu, or enter /usr/bin/quanta at the command-line. The first time you run Quanta, it checks for programs that add features, including Kompare (for diff), KXSLDbg (for XSLT debugging), KImageMapEditor, and Cervisia (for CVS management). You don’t need those to use Quanta itself, but the additional, integrated features are quite handy.
So, why is Quanta so gosh-darned good? It rolls the best features of other editors into one coherent package, making it a joy to use. Here’s…
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