On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 19 Oct 18:53, Chris G wrote:
Are there any good tools/utilities for easily laying out pictures and text on a web page? I want an easy way to put some images and text on a page with text beside pictures and/or more than one picture across the page.
I know that HTML is fundamentally not really designed to do such a thing (because it creates content rather than layout) but in the real world it's a rather fundamental thing to want to do.
While CSS is 'the right answer' it doesn't really fill the bill because I want to layout 'this particular bit of text I have written' in a specific position relative to 'this particular image'. I'm not after a generic two column or three column layout into which I can drop my text and images, I'm after saying "put this text top left next to this image top right then this text across the page, then this image on the left with this text to the right of it ....." etc.
Erm, so, nothing like: http://miranda.sommitrealweird.co.uk/~brettp/temp/chrisg/
Then? But to answer the general question, how about something like KompoZer - it's not KDE based, it's a GTK+ application. It's WYSIWYG (though, I'll never believe that of *any* app, WYSIWYG is only applicable to print, if it's being interpreted and displayed on a screen it's more WYSIWYSG, with the caveat that it might display differently elsewhere, ho hum).
Yes, I guess KompoZer is a possible answer, I have used it on and off over the years. It has (had?) periods of being very unstable.
.... hmmm, installed kompozer on my Ubuntu 10.04 system and (as in several previous incarnations) it simply doesn't work at all. Starting it either from the menus or from the command line results in absolutely nothing at all, not even an error message.
So it *has* periods of being very unstable. :-( :-)