If you’ve got a site to develop or design, it’s easy to set up a working web server based environment in Linux. As stated in another post<\/a>, you will need an IDE-style text editor (or at the very least you’ll need an editor that lets you keep several files open at the same time).<\/p>\n While there are a few ways to do this, installing XAMPP for Linux<\/a> by Apache Friends is simple.\u00a0 It is free, well-documented, and you can set up a website very quickly.\u00a0 By default, the web server is not started at boot time, (which to me is a plus) and starting\/restarting can be controlled by issuing a command at the terminal.\u00a0 XAMPP comes with MySQL and PHP 5, so it gives you just about everything you need to develop\/create dynamic, database-driven web pages with the ability to reuse code (via PHP “include” directives).<\/p>\n If you’re running Linux it may seem a daunting task to evaluate your site’s appearance in Mac OS-X or Microsoft Windows.\u00a0 Daunting yes, but you can come close.\u00a0 Safari<\/strong> in Mac OS-X uses the “webkit” layout engine<\/strong> and you can view your pages in the konqueror web browser<\/strong> as a poor-man’s substitute.\u00a0 It’s not perfect, but it’s close.\u00a0 Mozilla firefox uses the Gecko layout engine so it won’t show you know how a site looks in Internet Explorer for Windows.\u00a0 Firefox has a browser plugin called “IE Tabs” but I’m not sure if this reasonably captures the look and behaviour of the native IE.\u00a0 Be sure to browse the Firefox Web Development add-ons page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Linux Gui Applications for Website Design\/Development If you’ve got a site to develop or design, it’s easy to set up a working web server based environment in Linux. As stated in another post, you will need an IDE-style text editor (or at the very least you’ll need an editor that lets you keep several files […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,53,24],"tags":[30,44,47],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-apps","category-use-linux","category-web-development","category-freedom-choice","tag-apps","tag-gui","tag-xampp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Run your pages using a web server such as Apache<\/h2>\n
Check your work in a few browsers to ensure consistency<\/h2>\n