Re: Web Design

[MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>]

M.R.P.'s original request was: "what gnu tools are their for web design? "

If your interpretations of "GNU tools" and "web design", then the answer 
to the original question is likely "none".  If, as you speculated, "web 
design" means "creating a web page/service and make it look good", 
that's going to be awfully hard to do using just UTF-8 text.  To make it 
look good, you're going to need something that properly renders font and 
style changes as well as images.  I can't think of any command line 
tools that do that.

But I'm not so sure that command line tools are what M.R.P. is really 
asking for. Although he/she posted to an emacs discussion group, the 
reference to "GNU tools" suggests he/she's looking for something outside 
of emacs.  Perhaps the poster thinks gnu tools means non-proprietary.  
It's also unclear whether "web design" means strictly web design, or 
website building, or both.  In that case, both WordPress and Drupal 
would qualify, since they're licensed under the GPL and can be used to 
build websites.

The only person who knows what was really being asked for is M.R.P. 
him/her-self. And he/she's been notably silent since the first post 3 
days ago.

    Mark Rosenthal

On 1/1/18 4:55 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Kendall Shaw wrote:
>
>> What does "gnu tools" mean? What does "web
>> design" mean?
> "GNU tools" are likely to mean the UNIX CLI
> tools that were/are made available to everyone
> free of charge thru the GNU project and other
> such initiatives.
>
> Many tools that today hold a GNU licence are
> not UNIX tools historically, in the AT&T/Bell
> sense, but may still relate to that tradition
> or style/attitude of technology.
>
> "Web design" is likely to mean "creating a web
> page/service and make it look good" - "good",
> in the eyes of certain beholders, that is.
>