Creating web pages with Linux

A short introduction

Marko Grönroos (magi@iki.fi)

Creating both simple web pages and huge web sites is easy with Linux. Linux offers hundreds of tools useful for creating state-of-the-art web pages and applications.

Editing HTML	Mozilla Composer A WYSIWYG HTML editor Quanta A HTML-specific text editor XEmacs, GNU Emacs Powerful text editor Bluefish Another HTML-specific text editor Kate Easy-to-use multi-purpose text editor for KDE OpenOffice Office suite with word processing, etc. Good WYSIWYG HTML editing support.

Setting up web server	Basic Apache configuration Configuring Apache for CGI Starting, restarting, and stopping Apache

Writing web applications	Writing CGI applications for Apache A few tips and tricks Shell scripting Small CGI applications with Linux system tools Python Best interpreted language for CGI and everything else Perl Best language for text processing PHP Server-side embedded HTML language Generating HTML with `xsltproc` An XML Stylesheet Language Transformations processor

Browsing	Konqueror Light-weight web browser in KDE Mozilla (Netscape) browser Best web browser there is, with full CSS and XML/XSLT support. Old Netscape 4.x browser Useful for checking compatibility Text browsers: Lynx, Links These allow browsing in shell window or from text terminal Wget command-line tool Handy for mirroring web sites, etc.

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Last modified: Fri May 16 18:16:18 EEST 2003