1 - Introduction
1 - Introduction
Nvu User Guide - Section 1
Nvu is a complete Web Authoring System which integrates web page development and web file management.
It provides a web page editor which has a simple graphical (wysiwyg – what you see is what you get) interface. With Nvu, newcomers will quickly and easily be able to produce new web pages and existing pages may be easily updated
Alternative editing ‘views’ of the pages are provided right down to detailed code level.
The output code is compliant to a high extent with the latest issues of the appropriate web language specifications and pages may be checked for validity directly from Nvu using the official W3C validator.
Nvu incorporates a Site Manager this gives rapid access to the files on both local machines and remote servers. It can cater for several sites and switch rapidly between them.
From within Nvu pages and associated files may be uploaded to a remote server.
Nvu supports the use of “Styles” through Cascading Style sheets (CSS) both embedded and external. It has an editor which generates CSS code conforming with CSS 2.1 specifications.
Nvu appears suitable for anyone wishing to have a modern, free of charge, program for developing small web sites and who would like to learn modern web design techniques such as the use of CSS.
The guide has been written from the point of view of the Windows Operating system so details may differ for other systems. It is intended as a reference document although in a few places it uses a tutorial approach.
Although web pages can appear on screen, in print or in audio the guide is confined to on-screen uses.
The approach taken by the guide attempts to satisfy the needs both of the comparative novice who has little knowledge of web design tools, and those making the transition from other tools and who may have considerable knowledge of the field.
Although the Guide is not intended for the complete beginner, concepts are introduced progressively and gradually added to. To avoid being too repetitive I have, in a number of places, referred to subjects yet to come. This applies, in particular to the use of styles in which Nvu is strong. I suggest that these references are disregarded at first reading and returned to later. This will not prevent understanding later parts.
Those in a hurry wanting details of some particular feature and no more are recommended to the pdf version of the Guide which has a full subject index and is available from the same sitehttp://www.nvudev.org/guide/1.0PR/.
Navigate around the ten sections of the Guide and the appendices using the menu pane on the left hand side. In each section the menu expands to show more detail within that section. Cross references throughout are hyperlinked.
The buttons at the top of each page give access to some supplementary aids and information. The 'Site map' contains a detailed table of contents of the whole guide while the 'Quick index' gives access by subject.
The development of Nvu was completed with the release of version 1 in June 2005. No further development is expected though the developer Daniel Glazman of Disruptive Innovationshttp://disruptive-innovations.com/ is working on a newer product which will probably supersede it. After version 1 release a number of shortcomings were revealed and an independent developer using the name of Kazé worked on several of these and released an enhanced product as KompoZer.
The operation of KompoZer is almost identical to that of Nvu though it includes a number of small enhancements and the majority of Nvu users have probably transferred to using this version. The main difference in the user interface is in the CSS editor but even here users have been able to use it without further instruction. This revision of the User Guide does however cover these changes.
This version of the User Guide reflects the behaviour of KompoZer at version 0.77. The next version is anticipated shortly and will incorporate some enhancements.
The program is completely free and can be downloaded from KompoZer's web sitehttp://kompozer.sourceforge.net/.
You can install both Nvu and KompoZer on the same machine. I recommend that you run only one at a time closing one if you wish to run the other.
In this User Guide where the term Nvu is met it should be interpreted as including KompoZer unless a distinction is made.
Nvu
User Guide - Based on Nvu version 1.0 - Updated 28-July-2007
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