Nvu makes creating Web sites easy
Make Easy Money with Google features Nvu (pronounced “N-view”) prominently in Chapter 6, “Building Your Site”. For those who haven't heard of Nvu, it's a free, open source Web site authoring tool sponsored by Linspire. Nvu runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X. The Nvu Frequently Asked Questions page describes the product in more detail, but I chose to use Nvu for several reasons:
- Free with no spyware
- Multiplatform
- Easy to use
- Supports site editing, not just page editing
- Built-in support for cascading style sheets (CSS)
The latter point, the CSS support, was a big selling point for me. I think any modern Web site should make extensive use of CSS — the browsers that are in use today have good (not perfect, but good) CSS support. I also love the support for site editing/management — it's more than just an HTML editor.
Now, Nvu isn't perfect — the one glaring issue for me is the way it transforms external JavaScript script URLs (the ones used by the AdSense code) into local scripts when a page is published — but there are a couple of work arounds for that problem (the simplest to just publish the page itself, not any images or other files) and I think in general Nvu's ease-of-use and built-in CSS support outweighs the few problems I've had with the software. Nvu 1.0 is currently in preview release and is very stable, so download it today and take it for a spin.
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