October 21, 2011
Websites are now powered by blog platforms like WordPress, or WYSIWYG editors like Kompozer, but the bottom line is that most hardcore web designers will always find it necessary to pop open a text editor to tweak the style a little bit here, or to realign the template a bit more there. I think that text editors are going to be around for a very long time.
August 25, 2011
I maintain the CSS for a fairly complex website; my normal workflow is opening an SSH session with PuTTY and then editing the CSS within a remote instance of VIM. WebPutty from Fog Creek Software (Joel Spolsky’s company) offers a way to simplify this process and edit your CSS using the browser, with live preview [...]
June 23, 2011
There are several reasons why people hardly use desktop web builders – there are only a few of them available, the good ones are too expensive, and the process of web building itself is not a walk in the park. But there is a new web editing application called BlueGriffon, a free multi-platform WYSIWYG web editor which is easy enough for beginners but also powerful enough for more advanced users.
June 13, 2011
Greenfoot takes care of learning a programming language by providing a developing platform, meant for educational purposes, where users can quickly get started and get visual results back in the form of graphics. Greenfoot runs and uses Java for its programming language, which runs on virtually every operating system
May 11, 2011
Facebook Pages is a great promotion tool. You can use it to promote your blog, your product, or even yourself. If you are a code novice and want to build and edit your Facebook Pages without touching any codes, you could easily do it using Static HTML – a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor, built specifically for Facebook Pages.
February 14, 2011
If you want to create an attractive landing tab or a tab to display your company’s products on your Facebook fan page, Pagemodo offers one of the easiest methods to put together an attractive design, without the need for any coding or HTML knowledge whatsoever. Using the WYSISYG editor, you can add images and text, [...]
December 15, 2010
It seems like everyone owns a blog or microblog, with the advent of Twitter and increasingly simple blogging platforms like Tumblr and Posterous. And why not? You can showcase your talents in writing, spread the word on a cause you care about, and document your whereabouts. But when you simply want a place with no [...]
March 30, 2010
While I love blogging, there are times when I just want to whip together a simple webpage straight out of HTML. Of course, there is a lot of basic HTML coding that you really don’t want to have to deal with over and over, such as creating tables, inserting images, creating forms and other common [...]
February 13, 2009
While there are many Windows-based blog editors around, there are only a handful that Linux users can use on their desktop. If you are like me – a native Linux user and a seasoned blogger – here are 6 free blogging clients for Linux users. While they are not as good as Windows Live Writer, [...]
February 9, 2009
w.bloggar is a free blogging client program for writing blog articles offline. It offers an alternative to Windows Live Writer and those of you that are HTML purists may prefer it to Live Writer. It also has an official portable version, for those of you that carry your life on a USB stick. Of course [...]
