Just the last 2 weeks I have really begun getting into Inkscape, an amazingly capable and well designed vector graphics editor that (apart from the odd crash – though it manages to save your work) is proving to me to be even better than Fireworks. Replacing Dreamweaver – Kompozer is here to help. Replacing Fireworks – Inkscape has come to the rescue. I now am slowly migrating to two new tools for web development. ![]() That said, all three programs are very capable it’s just that they don’t suit my way of doing things. Both screem and bluefish had no way to quickly view your changes in the IDE or to make changes visually. I am not a fan of Photoshop / The Gimp interface and while I was able to get around and do things I needed to do, it felt slow and awkward. Until recently, I was unable to find something that a) Performed the job as good (or close to) both Dreamweaver and Fireworks and b) Felt natural to use and learn.įor numerous reasons, these never cut it for me. Sometimes, it’s easier to achieve what you want in one or the other. I run a horizontal split window of the design view and code view. The majority of the functionality I used in Fireworks worked flawlessly, with only a few small exceptions and never crashed on me.ĭreamweaver was a slightly different story, especially as layouts became more complex and the html grew in size, it had a tendency to crash under wine in these circumstances. My web development experience began using Macromedia’s tools and when I migrated to Linux, I took them with me with the help of the Wine project to run them under Linux. ![]() ![]() I have been using Linux on the desktop part-time for nearly 6 years now and full-time for 3 years.
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