La Belle Inutile - Web Tools

Web site building - Fr

Introduction

Bringing back light - Statue - Petit Palais - Paris

While in the beginning of the www, almost everyone who was interested quickly learnt how to build a web site, so that in a few months the www was quickly and freely filled with contents, with contributions of people who had long waited to share what they loved, the coming of web 2.0 (and its associated bells and whistles) led the following waves of web users to some confusion.

With the spreading of blog software, lots of people learnt to forget that a diary is not a magazine, nor book, and with the spreading of "social networks" even more people learnt to forget that a plain chat is not the same thing as a diary, nor is it the same thing as a magazine, nor is it of course the same thing as a book and much less as a shelf with books on it.

It took some time before I realized that most people coming on the www were now starting with "social networks", after what the most daring of them ventured into running "their own" ready-made blog, so that finally only a few accept to face what the www was originally made for : creating web sites.

Additionally, while in the beginning of the www, it was very easy for beginners to find valuable information about how to use HTML, with the spreading of the web 2.0 the need for HTML related information greatly decreased, since almost everything was ready-made for blog and "social networks" users, who actually looked more and more like web consumers, rather than as web contributors .

Because I am not the kind of person who builds a new web page every morning, it took some time before I realized that although the web site building resources that I used were of course still faithfully available and updated, new resources with valuable contents were no longer that easy to find.

I hence decided to build these pages both for myself as a reminder and for new friends who felt the desire of building their own web site.

Contents

>> Introduction <<: The previous section
>> Contents<<: This section
>> Open souce WYSIWYG HTML Editors <<: Open source to use HTML editors based on a What You See Is What You Get user interface.
>> Web site templates <<: Currently a link to the very helpful web site of Andreas Viklund.
>> Open source non WYSIWYG HTML Editors <<: Open source and easy to use HTML editors with a textual (i.e. non WYYSIWYG) user interface.
>> HTML resources <<: "Hyper Text Markup Language" (HTML) related tutorials
>> CSS resources <<: "Cascading Style Sheets" (CSS) related tutorials
>> Conclusion <<: Ideas ? Comments ?

Open source WYSIWYG HTML Editors

Attirail de peintre - Petit Palais - Paris

Free HTML Editor

>>> Blue Griffon <<<

Blue Griffon is WYSIWYG - ("What You See Is What You Get")

Licence

Mozilla Public License 1.1,
GNU General Public License Version 2, and
GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1.

Operating System compatibility

WINDOW XP
WINDOWS 7
WINDOWS 8
MAC OS X
LINUX Ubuntu 10.4
LINUX Fedora

HTML 5 and CSS 3 ready

Web Site Templates

Theatre - Museum d'Histoire Naturelle - Paris

See Andreas Viklund's web site where I found the templates to buid this site.

Open source non WYSIWYG HTML Editors

Outils - Rue de Bretagne - Paris

>>> Bluefish <<<

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.

Licence

Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL licence .

Operating System compatibility

Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.