Open-Source Web Design (step 1, step 2, step 3, step 4, step 5)
Step 3. Content Authoring:
When designing a website, quality content is one of the major components that makes it successful. Google, for instance has very smart algorithms (mathematical formulas) for know what to display in their search results. The purpose of writing a web page, is to get it to as many people as possible, around the world. By having a content editor like Microsoft Office, that would enable you to have good control over your content. Catching spelling mistakes, thesaurus etc. How about a free alternative? OpenOffice is just that.
- OpenOffice
(Microsoft Office Alternative)
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OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.
Available in over 65 supported languages with more being constantly added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), Windows, Mac OS X (X11), and numerous other platforms. Our porting page lists the platforms (ports) that OpenOffice.org can run on.
Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL open-source license, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. And, because the native file format for OpenOffice.org is the vendor-independent OpenDocument open standard, interoperability is easy, making future development and adoption more certain. (source from OpenOffice)
Download: HERE
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Info: Microsoft Office retails for US $499.99
OpenOffice is a huge community base and has hundreds of developers constantly tweaking and updating the software to make it better and better. Again, having quality content is key to having a successful website. To keep the running total going, lets see what our savings are.
- Web Authoring Tool: US $399.00
- Graphical Design Tools: US $1,148.00
- Content Authoring: US $499.99
Total Savings so far: US $2,046.00
