In this chapter, you will explore the tool choices available to
you for producing web pages. Then you??™ll build a basic informational
website with Quanta Plus. We will then explore the
various Linux tools for making a personal weblog.
Choosing a Web Development Tool
The Linux web developer can choose among several good
tools. What you choose depends on your skill level and
what your comfort level with writing raw HTML is.
For the Beginner
For the absolute web page beginner, there??™s nothing better
than OpenOffice.org??™s Writer/Web. To open a new HTML
document, you can choose New Web Document from the
File menu, or go the View menu and select Web Layout.
You can then create new web pages by using Styles in text
(see the OpenOffice section of Chapter 9, ???Being
Productive: Office Suites and Other Tools,??? for more information
on styles), importing images, and adding other
graphic elements. You can even create clickable image
maps right in the word processor.
In addition, the Web Page Wizard, accessible from the File menu (under Wizards), will
convert any existing OpenOffice or Word document (or set of documents) to an HTML
page, and upload it to your web server if you like.
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