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--- computing:web:web_publishing:tools [2008/10/17 00:43] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ computing:web:web_publishing:tools [2012/12/11 17:39] (current) – allan
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-====== Useful Web Tools ======
-There are many editors available which are suitable for authoring web pages. One good way to get started is to find a page you like, save it to a file (choose "Save As..." in your browser), then load it into the text editor of your choice, and start modifying it.
+====== Useful Web Tools ======
-If you don't want to use a Unix editor such as vim, emacs or nedit, there are good text editors available on other platforms: on the Macintosh, BBEdit is a good choice, while on Windows some people like PFE (Programmers File Editor).
+There are many editors available which are suitable for authoring web pages. If you don't want to use a standard Unix editor such as vim, emacs or nedit, we recommend **Komodo Edit** (available for Linux, Windows and Mac), from http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
-If you don't like doing things this way, there are some fairly good WYSIWYG editors available. For Windows, you can use Macromedia's Dreamweaver, or on Linux you could try Kompozer.
+If you don't like doing things this way, there are some passable WYSIWYG editors available. For Windows, you can use Dreamweaver, or on Linux you could try Kompozer.
 ===== Images =====
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 ===== Other document types =====
-Files and documents which can't easily be reformatted as HTML are probably best converted to PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). You can do this using either the full version of Adobe's Acrobat (from the faculty toolkit), or on Unix/Linux using ghostscript.
+Files and documents which can't easily be reformatted as HTML are probably best converted to PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). You can do this using either the full version of Adobe's Acrobat, or on Unix/Linux using ghostscript.
-Existing paper documents can easily be transferred to PDF files on the web using the multifunction printer/scanner in room 216 (TODO: link to the scanner page).
+Existing paper documents can easily be transferred to PDF files on the web using one of the network scanners or copiers in the department (use the copier to email yourself the scanned document).
 TeX documents can be converted to HTML (with some limitations) using the Unix program tth (TeX-to-HTML).

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