Is there any good webpage maker under linux

Did I miss something, or has nobody mentioned Emacs yet?

One of the things wrong with HTML is that it's too often seen as a "language" and that you are"programming". SO people fear it, and think they need a program to do the work. And the result is often computer generated pages that have extreme bloat in the code, and maybe as bad, people who use the fancier functions on their webpage simply because it's easy, rather than because there is real need.

HTML is simly a text page, with tags (usually they come in pairs, one to indicate a start and the other to indicate the end orstart) which the browser will interpret to display the page properly. Want flashing? Then you put the word you want flashing within the flashing tags, whatever they are and I'm not going to look them up, and that word will flash.

When I decided to make a webpage, I took a simple text editor and a book about HTML, actually, it may have been a short text file I grabbed off the internet basics and away I went, and two days later I had the basics down pat. I followed the suggestion of the book-text and made a template of the very basic of an HTML page, and to this day six years later I still start a webpage with that very same template. The text editor I was using at the time had a set of macros for the basic HTML tags, so by a key press I could get the most used tags. But you don't need that because the basic ones you'll use most of the time can easily be remembered, even if it can get tedious typing them in each time. When I moved to Linux in 2001, I just used a simple text editor, without the macros, and it doesn't bother me one bit.

Too many webpages are bloated. They have "flash" as the primary criteria (I'm not talking about Flash, though too often that is used without a real need, but talking about pages that are too graphic intensive), rather than function coming first. So you can have "beautiful" webpages that don't mean a thing because there really is little or no content there. And since the simplicity of HTML is not conveyed, too many rely on third parties to take care of the webpage, third parties who not only can't give the best page because they don't really know the topic of the page, and maybe worse, the pages aren't updated because "some guy" is taking care of it, so there is no mention on that community group's page that they are having a sale this weekend.

Oh, goes the story, GUI based webpagemakers means it gives power to people, so they can make their own webpages. But HTML is simple, and they can do that with simple text editors, making better pages to boot. Most of what you want to do can be picked up in a couple of days. The rest will be rarely used, and can be handled by a good reference book.

Michael