Dreamweaver Equivalent for Linux

Dreamweaver equivalent for Linux

It is not an exact match but it is based out of Eclipse which means super cross platform funky java love.

http://www.aptana.com/

Aptana Studio is actually what I replaced Dreamweaver with since Adobe bought Macromedia, I use it on Windows and Linux without trouble. But for the suggestion you will also get my 2 cents about Wysiwtf... it is almost never what you get. Some of the best code I have ever done in my life was done in SciTE (also available in Linux), it supports multiple coding languages and offers enough features to be useful without becoming bloated.

Alternative to Dreamweaver?

I switched to notepad++ when I had the same kind of problems with DreamWeaver. I tried some other programs too, but they were too complicated for my needs.

If all you need is color-coding and ftp-support, notepad++ is a good choice.

Open source web design toolsets

I briefly used Bluefish while in college, which has similar features to Dreamweaver.

Wikipedia has a good list here.

How to shift Web-development from windows to linux

I use Fireworks on Mac and have yet to find a decent alternative. The closest thing to a vector editor on Linux is going to be Inkscape but you are unlikely to find it useful for creating exportable slices that are suitable for use in your website. You will have to take multiple intervening steps in order to accomplish what would have otherwise been possible with the "Export as HTML" feature on Fireworks, with which you are likely familiar. GIMP is a reasonable photo editor (with most of the features you would expect from Photo Shop).

It sounds like you are mostly interested in replacing your graphic design workstation and not the subsequent server technologies. If that's the case, I can't wholeheartedly endorse that you switch at this time. I have yet seen an example of a site designed entirely with OOS that could compare with most of the "professional design houses" using proprietary solutions. If you were focused on web application development and not graphic design, I would be a lot less hesitant.

Creating plain-text HTML and CSS on Linux isn't going to be any different from how you create it on Windows. If you are familiar with these mark-up languages, then you will have no problem using a text editor under Linux to accomplish the same thing. If you are currently using tools like Dreamweaver to generate this code for you, you will have to try a few packages like the ones you have mentioned until you find something that is a suitable alternative. You are not going to find a Dreamweaver clone. If you plan to do web design as a business: I would suggest just learning the proper syntax for XHTML and CSS, anyway. Debugging works in the browser just like it does in Windows, with the exception of Internet Explorer (which can be ran in a virtual machine, below). Be sure to pick up the FireBug, YSlow!, and Live HTTP header extensions for Firefox to ease your debugging woes.

To achieve the best of both worlds, you should consider running your current operating system of choice (Windows?) within a virtual machine under Linux. There are many virtualization products available for Linux, but VMware Player/Server seem to be the easiest for people to use. There should still be an apt package for VMware for an easy one-click install in Ubuntu. This way, you can transition comfortably--one app at a time. Most virtualization products are now free!

Capture followed by Digits: Replace Syntax? (Dreamweaver)

Dreamweaver's regular expression find and replace is supposed to be based on JavaScript's implementation of RegExp. You should be able to just use $1000 in the replacement text. However, like you've found, the replacement groups ($ + group number) are not properly recognized when the replacement text has digits immediately after the grouping token.

FWIW: I've logged a bug on this at http://adobe.ly/DWwish

Dreamweaver Connect to site via HTTP

Dreamweaver Help / Connect to a remote server

Once you’ve specified a local site in Dreamweaver, you can specify a remote server for your site as well. The remote server (often referred to as the web server) is where you publish your site files so that people can view them online. The remote server is simply another computer like your local computer with a collection of files and folders on it. You’ll specify a folder for your site on the remote server, just as you specified a folder for your local site on your local computer.

Dreamweaver refers to the specified remote folder as your remote site.

When you set up a remote folder, you must select a connection method for Dreamweaver to upload and download files to and from your web server. The most typical connection method is FTP, but Dreamweaver also supports local/network, FTPS, SFTP, WebDav, and RDS connection methods. If you don’t know which connection method to use, ask your ISP or your server administrator.

Note:
Dreamweaver also supports connections to IPv6-enabled servers. Supported connection types include FTP, SFTP, WebDav, and RDS. For more information, see www.ipv6.org/

Specify a connection method

WebDAV connections:

Use this setting if you connect to your web server using the Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol.

For this connection method, you must have a server that supports this protocol, such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 or an appropriately configured installation of Apache web server.

RDS connections:

Use this setting if you connect to your web server using Remote Development Services (RDS). For this connection method, your remote server must be on a computer running Adobe® ColdFusion®

Doing coding in Linux through a virtual machine on Windows VS partitioning

There is an easier solution..

I still have to use Windows for Symbian programming so I use a Wubi and Ubuntu to provide my double bout into Linux..you deploy Wubi uses a large file and thus no need to worry or mess with creating a partition..

I have used it for 18 months with no data loss and no worries..

There is also another tool called andlinux:
http://www.andlinux.org/

It uses colinux to run Linux as a program inside windows..

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