I am in college going for a BA in I.T. Network Management. Currently two of my classes are Web Design 1 and Programming Logic. I am currently dual booting Windows but I was wondering if their is something for openSuse 12.3 KDE that works like Vizio for building flow charts? I tried Libre Draw and there are to many shapes missing and I also need to be able to save in a format where he can either open it up in Vizio or I know a lot of guys are just using the shapes from MS office, so I could save it in a .doc that would be good to.
I am also taking Web Design and was wondering if there is anything like DreamWeaver since that is the software the class is being taught to use. Thanks everybody and I appreciate any insight.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:56:01 +0000, DMGrier wrote:
> I am in college going for a BA in I.T. Network Management. Currently two
> of my classes are Web Design 1 and Programming Logic. I am currently
> dual booting Windows but I was wondering if their is something for
> openSuse 12.3 KDE that works like Vizio for building flow charts? I
> tried Libre Draw and there are to many shapes missing and I also need to
> be able to save in a format where he can either open it up in Vizio or I
> know a lot of guys are just using the shapes from MS office, so I could
> save it in a .doc that would be good to.
>
> I am also taking Web Design and was wondering if there is anything like
> DreamWeaver since that is the software the class is being taught to use.
> Thanks everybody and I appreciate any insight.
There are a few applications that do Visio-like drawings, but nothing
with a library like the Visio library. Inkscape can do some of this sort
of stuff, but it’s really primitive compared to Visio for that type of
drawing.
With regards to anything like Dreamweaver - if that’s what your class is
using, then you should stick with that for the class. Some people use
Inkscape to design web pages, but IME it requires a bit more work than
using a tool like Dreamweaver.
I tend to use something like Komodo Edit, Bluefish, or something similar
for creating raw HTML pages.
Jim Thanks,
Great information. I do plan on continuing to use Dreamweaver for the class but I think once I am done I would like to keep messing with some web design stuff as hobby but preferably without any M$ Windows involved.
I will try inkscape, I hate having to boot into Windows this much and if inkscape can produce the shapes I need then that is one less thing I need. Thanks for the quick response and information Jim.
To avoid the dual boot hassle, I suggest you try Windows running as a VirtualBox VM.
For me, it works very well for the few programs , such as Visio and Dreamweaver, that are difficult to duplicate in oS space.
If your Windows is Windows7, the VM version will run on the same PC that your have Win7 installed on - the hardware “secret” information reported to the Microsft Authentication process is the same. XP runs well too.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:36:02 +0000, DMGrier wrote:
> Jim Thanks,
> Great information. I do plan on continuing to use Dreamweaver for the
> class but I think once I am done I would like to keep messing with some
> web design stuff as hobby but preferably without any M$ Windows
> involved.
>
> I will try inkscape, I hate having to boot into Windows this much and if
> inkscape can produce the shapes I need then that is one less thing I
> need. Thanks for the quick response and information Jim.
No problem.
FWIW, I find that Windows runs just fine in a virtual machine - no need
to dual boot. (I have to use Windows for some of my paid work, and
that’s a great alternative - if the machine gets hosed somehow, I can
revert to a known working snapshot - really handy).
DMGrier wrote:
>
> I am in college going for a BA in I.T. Network Management. Currently two
> of my classes are Web Design 1 and Programming Logic. I am currently
> dual booting Windows but I was wondering if their is something for
> openSuse 12.3 KDE that works like Vizio for building flow charts? I
> tried Libre Draw and there are to many shapes missing and I also need to
> be able to save in a format where he can either open it up in Vizio or I
> know a lot of guys are just using the shapes from MS office, so I could
> save it in a .doc that would be good to.
>
> I am also taking Web Design and was wondering if there is anything like
> DreamWeaver since that is the software the class is being taught to use.
> Thanks everybody and I appreciate any insight.
>
>
I will give the VM an shot, do you think it is possible even though my laptop is running on a almost 3 year old core i3 and and only 4GB of memory. Here in a few months hopefully will be getting a new computer with a quad core i7 and 8 GB of memory which then I don’t see being a problem but I was unsure if Windows 7 64 Bit would run on my current laptop since I was pretty sure I read on Adobes website in order to run Adobe Creative Suite 6 I needed a 64 Bit OS. Any thoughts?
DMGrier wrote:
>
> Jim Thanks,
> Great information. I do plan on continuing to use Dreamweaver for the
> class but I think once I am done I would like to keep messing with some
> web design stuff as hobby but preferably without any M$ Windows
> involved.
>
> I will try inkscape, I hate having to boot into Windows this much and
> if inkscape can produce the shapes I need then that is one less thing I
> need. Thanks for the quick response and information Jim.
>
>
Regarding HTML editors:-
Quanta supports WYSIWYG and is available in our repos. Install using YaST
you can get Amaya(also supports WYSIWYG) rpms here http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html
64 bit guest on 64 bit host is no problem. gig should be plenty I tun XP on 3200+AMD system with 2 gig and 512 meg VM. So you have plenty. I think the i3 supports virtualization, but you might want to check that it should but Intel is a bit flaky with some versions of their processor . I know the some do not support VM even today
I recently installed Adobe CS4 in windows 8 64bit
But most of the stuff is 32 bit and the 64 bit side doesn’t seem to work anyway. To me it is a complete abomination to distribute software like that.
Windows software is so far behind in the 64 bit realm, it’s beyond belief.
For some years I did run VM’s but gave up, mostly because I can do everything I need in openSUSE. But when I did use VM’s I typically used 32 bit installs
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 03:16:03 +0000, DMGrier wrote:
> I will give the VM an shot, do you think it is possible even though my
> laptop is running on a almost 3 year old core i3 and and only 4GB of
> memory.
Sure. You might not get all the bells and whistles, but I was running
VMware on P4 systems with a gig of memory a decade ago. The i3 is
hyperthreaded and has 4 cores. Memory might be tight for newer versions
of Windows, but I run Win8 in a VM with about 1.5 GB of memory allocated
out of 6 GB. If I don’t tax the system by running Chrome and a bunch of
other stuff all at once with the VM, it performs just fine.
> Here in a few months hopefully will be getting a new computer
> with a quad core i7 and 8 GB of memory which then I don’t see being a
> problem but I was unsure if Windows 7 64 Bit would run on my current
> laptop since I was pretty sure I read on Adobes website in order to run
> Adobe Creative Suite 6 I needed a 64 Bit OS. Any thoughts?
I’m not sure if CS6 requires a 64-bit OS or not - I didn’t think it did,
but maybe that’s something new.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 03:08:04 +0000, vazhavandan wrote:
> DMGrier wrote:
>>
>> Jim Thanks,
>> Great information. I do plan on continuing to use Dreamweaver for the
>> class but I think once I am done I would like to keep messing with some
>> web design stuff as hobby but preferably without any M$ Windows
>> involved.
>>
>> I will try inkscape, I hate having to boot into Windows this much and
>> if inkscape can produce the shapes I need then that is one less thing
>> I need. Thanks for the quick response and information Jim.
>>
>>
> Regarding HTML editors:-
> Quanta supports WYSIWYG and is available in our repos. Install using
> YaST you can get Amaya(also supports WYSIWYG) rpms here
> http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html
That’s the one I was trying to think of - I’d used Quanta+ for a long
time and really liked it for WYSIWYG editing.
Hey everyone thanks for the responses. Yeah CS6 requires 64 bit, I tried to install it in a 32 bit windows xp VM and dream weaver worked but it would not install photo shop claiming I was using illegal adobe software even though it is legit. The only Other windows disc I have is windows 7 64 bit but it is for my laptop and won’t activate in the VM, I guess I am going to have to wait and save for a legit windows 7 copy, ****.
I would also like to say thank you for all the software recommendations, I will be for sure checking all those out to see which ones I like. Thanks everybody.
My experience has been that a Win7 VM will activate on a PC (in my case, a laptop) which has Win7 already installed and activated.
I also know that the Win7 VM won’t export/import to another physical PC, as expected.
Like you, I started with a dual boot strategy but then quickly migrated to the VM for daily use.
If I recall correctly, the activation process uses a serial number or similar token from the CPU device, so I assumed that the VM activation process delivered the same token to the MS authentication process.
Since my VM install “just worked”, I can’t provide much in the way of debugging if it does not work.
When you buy a new laptop, keep VMs in mind - a great way to experiment and deal with the occasional need for an alternate OS.
My laptop has two HDD bays, one an SSD and one an HDD. I have oS / on the SSD and /home on the HDD. I created a /VMs directory on the SSD for the VM files, with permissions for my user login. Win7 boots and runs much faster as a VM in this configuration than from the HDD.
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:26:01 +0000, DMGrier wrote:
> Hey everyone thanks for the responses. Yeah CS6 requires 64 bit, I tried
> to install it in a 32 bit windows xp VM and dream weaver worked but it
> would not install photo shop claiming I was using illegal adobe
> software even though it is legit. The only Other windows disc I have is
> windows 7 64 bit but it is for my laptop and won’t activate in the VM, I
> guess I am going to have to wait and save for a legit windows 7 copy,
> ****.
Weird, because Adobe’s site says a P4 or AMD64 system is required for
everything except the video editing stuff (Premiere, After Effects, etc)
want a Core 2 Duo or AMD64 system.
> I would also like to say thank you for all the software recommendations,
> I will be for sure checking all those out to see which ones I like.
> Thanks everybody.
