Posted by Craig on 10/03/75 11:33

Franklin wrote:

> Which html editor should a novice use for creating an uncomplicated
> web page made up of approx 20 thumbnail pictures. Each of the
> thumbnails can be clicked to show a bigger picture.
>
> Ideally, the html editor is one of the following:
>
> Arachnoplhila

Arach requires JRE which, in my 2-3 month usage made it a bit clunky
(slow loading, slow responding). I gave up on it before I got to know
it well, so, ymmv. It does seem simple enough though.

>
> Nvu

I would love to recommend Nvu unreservedly. It's open source, free,
WYSIWYG but, it actually modifies your code. Maybe for a neophyte
that's not a problem but, it's a deal-killer here. What's interesting
though is that neither of these represent an "easy" way to do an html
photo-page.

If what you're looking to do is create a simple webpage with thumbnails,
etc, you might want to approach this from a different angle. Find a
proggie that will generate an html page with thumbnails & full-sized
images and then see about modifying that in an html editor afterwards.
Using this angle, start out by looking at the following two packages.

Picasa2 (http://picasa.google.com/index.html) and
Jalbum (http://jalbum.net/)

Both do a fine job, Jalbum probably has the edge in simplicity of use
and definitely has the edge in pretty cool ready-made styles available.

After that, I'd recommend firing up an HTML editor such as PSPad (it has
a nice preview function). Then you can mark up to your heart's content.

Let us know how it turned out!

Craig

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