Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 08, 2004 09:34 AM
I hope the Nvu team takes a look at Frontpage for some very important features that the other tools out there seem to keep missing.
Link checking of all pages built in, not using a script from somewhere else, or a app plugged into Nvu, something that most wysiwyg authoring tool users would have difficulty in building into and enabling in Nvu. Leave the building and tool design/installation to yourselves, and help your target audience by building link checking into the base application, something that virtually everyone has to do at some point, and at the end, of web design. Users prefer their own favorite link checking script or app? Great. Enable them to use their own favorite one. But install by default a decent link checker script or app for those of us who would have trouble doing it ourselves, and who wouldn't know about installing it, and assume that it is missing from the beginning (this is on the assumption that Nvu doesn't have this important feature to begin with).
Another very important feature that Frontpage has, and is missing from all the other tools I've seen, is the "map" of the sites being built, that show each page as a box, with lines connecting the boxes (shows positions of pages as child, parent, top, same level, etc), and where you can edit the name of the box, which changes either the title or the file name of the html file, depending on setting, and where you can also drag and drop the box, which has the effect of changing the layout of the site, allowing you to reposition the layout of page hierarchy, and which updates links on the fly, making sure that all hyperlinks, all navigation buttons are automatically updated to reflect the new hierarchy position of the particular page. This may not be so important for web sites that are a few pages in size, but for sites that start to get larger (especially as time goes on), it is important for reconfiguring the layout of the pages, keeping track of all links, and maintaining a good understanding of the layout.
The feature above is like a kvio layout, but you can drag and drop, change names of the boxes, change positions, and all the actions update all the links, all the titles, all the file names. This is a killer feature, one that makes managing sites that contain dozens to hundreds of pages very easy.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 08, 2004 09:34 AMLink checking of all pages built in, not using a script from somewhere else, or a app plugged into Nvu, something that most wysiwyg authoring tool users would have difficulty in building into and enabling in Nvu. Leave the building and tool design/installation to yourselves, and help your target audience by building link checking into the base application, something that virtually everyone has to do at some point, and at the end, of web design. Users prefer their own favorite link checking script or app? Great. Enable them to use their own favorite one. But install by default a decent link checker script or app for those of us who would have trouble doing it ourselves, and who wouldn't know about installing it, and assume that it is missing from the beginning (this is on the assumption that Nvu doesn't have this important feature to begin with).
Another very important feature that Frontpage has, and is missing from all the other tools I've seen, is the "map" of the sites being built, that show each page as a box, with lines connecting the boxes (shows positions of pages as child, parent, top, same level, etc), and where you can edit the name of the box, which changes either the title or the file name of the html file, depending on setting, and where you can also drag and drop the box, which has the effect of changing the layout of the site, allowing you to reposition the layout of page hierarchy, and which updates links on the fly, making sure that all hyperlinks, all navigation buttons are automatically updated to reflect the new hierarchy position of the particular page. This may not be so important for web sites that are a few pages in size, but for sites that start to get larger (especially as time goes on), it is important for reconfiguring the layout of the pages, keeping track of all links, and maintaining a good understanding of the layout.
The feature above is like a kvio layout, but you can drag and drop, change names of the boxes, change positions, and all the actions update all the links, all the titles, all the file names. This is a killer feature, one that makes managing sites that contain dozens to hundreds of pages very easy.
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