Quickie Fu

b12arr0 sent us a link to a quick little GNOME article. An anonymous reader wrote in to say that GNUStep.org has had a major makeover. Nice to see that project still alive and kicking. chrisd wrote in to say that VA has made its first acquisition: ElectricLichen, possibly best known to most of us as the Beer Hike guys. OGL wrote in to give us the heads up to Linux Game Tome for info about a a work-in-progress video game starring Tux in a 3D environment. The screenshots alone are unbelievably cool. Brian Gue wrote in to tell us of a new a beer called Fubar. Why not fubeer? snorkel sent us a link to yet-another-dancing-animal-page. This is the Cow Dance Finally Vik Olliver wrote in with the most impressive Linux Fan act I've seen (narrowly edging out the dude at LWCE with the Tux hairdo). It is of course, Husband and Wife matching Tux Tatoos. My largely tux based fashion sense pales by comparison.

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Penguin Tatooes

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't it seem sort of strange that they both had tatooes done of the gnu/linux mascot but their webpage was created with an application that runs in windows ??

wow

[riffraff_69]

funny thing is, I almost got a tatoo of tux this weekend at Jade Dragon in Chicago. I decided to get a tribal instead.

(!wysiwyg) != "by hand"

[slim]

Everyone seems to assume that if you don't use a WYSIWYG HTML editor, you necessarily "do it by hand".

The *smart* way to produce pretty web pages that remain consistent across a site is to write plain HTML (or LaTeX or whatever) and use scripts to index/prettify/add sidebars/etc

If you don't want to roll your own, there are plenty of such tools on freshmeat.

Oh, and what's more, GUI != WYSIWYG -- with the number of browsers out there, all on different platforms, different screen sizes, different colour depths, different fonts installed, Lynx, IE, Navigator, Mozilla, Arachne, Arena, you'll never be able to do WYSIWYG HTML.

That said, something like Netscape Composer is a useful part of your toolkit for producing templates for the aforementioned scripts to work with (then edit it, then test it in Lynx, then WebLint it!)
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Penguin Tatooes - irony explained

[vik]

If it's any consolation, the web pages are uploaded from a Linux box via our household Linux internet server because aforementioned Windows design software can't ftp in passive mode.

If you know of a good GUI Linux website design program, we'd love to hear about it. Web page design programs don't cut it when you've got a site to design with a theme, and we've not found a Linux tool that's up to the job yet since we saw the light and decided to defenestrate.

Vik :v)