Any serious web designers here?

[gogul2k]

Well I'm just curious, so I'll start by talking about myself as a GNU/Linux based designer developer (well, coder might be more accurate ...).

Me personally I'm more of a hobbyist designer/developer (minus the fact my job involves maintaining a few websites and I do some semi-pro stuff on the side).

I'm confident with coding (X)HTML, CSS, though still learning PHP and java script among other things.

The design software I use mostly is GIMP, though I've experimented with a couple of SVG rendering apps and played with povray a few times.

When booting Linux I use Quanta for coding, otherwise I use a freeware editor called PSPad (I wish the way it handled FTP was a little more like Quanta).

Flash ... egh! I've used it a few times, though the only real advantages I see are multimedia (i.e.: streaming videos, music, games, etc). Minus that, people do still ask for it and I haven't really seen many viable alternatives on Linux to experiment with. Though I have seen one potential Windows based app that now seems defunct (can't remember the name of it though) which at the time seemed to run on wine without problems.

OS Flash looks interesting, though I don't know enough about the programming language to really implement it.

Any serious, mostly/completely GNU/Linux based web designers who don't just work with programming and databases? If so then how do you use it? (not asking for how-to's, just basically what you do with it).

[minthaka]

I'm using KompoZer as html editor with Inkscape and Gimp as graphical background. Before I moved to Linux I worked 3 years with Flash, and I still think it's one of the best IDE's ever. I'm missing it badly under Linux, but promise is promise, I've quited using stolen software!

[elija]

Hand coding PHP, Javascript, CSS, XHTML for years. I also (have to)
work in ASP and ASP.NET. For databases, I use both MySQL and MS Sql
Server.

I'm currently preparing myself to take the Zend certified PHP developer
certification exams...

Boy are the questions evil. I think they know the Sun Certified
Java Professional exam writers

[gogul2k]

Thank you for your responses and good luck elija with your exams.

Minus the web hosting side of things, most designers/developers I know of seem to work under a Windows or Mac environment.

P.S. Remembered the free version of flash for windows is called LiveSwif

[Cabhan]

I worked this past summer at a Web 2.0-y company, where all of us except the graphics guy worked by ssh'ing into a Linux box (he was on a Mac using TextMate for frontend stuff, and Photoshop for graphics).

I used Vim, and they all used Emacs for all of their XHTML, Perl, JavaScript, etc (it was an MVC framework). The database was MySQL.

My personal opinion on IDEs is that, for some languages (particularly Java, due its whole package scheme), they can be very, very useful. However, I have found that for nearly everything else I do, I really have no need of anything but a text editor.

As far as learning PHP and JavaScript, I picked up the former by just looking things up as needed (I know a few other scripting languages, so it was pretty easy to learn). O'Reilly's Programming PHP is pretty good. JavaScript, I'm no expert, but this was a learn-by-doing at the aforementioned company. I would recommend checking out jQuery: it's really rather cool.

[darkrose0510]

I'm a self employed web developer, my network is soley Linux. I use Quanta as my main IDE, and GIMP for graphics, sometimes use Inkscape. I don't work with flash much, but when I do I just use Flash8 through Wine.

I'm self taught on pretty much everything, learn by doing really. Still have alot to learn in PHP, I mostly work in client-side scripting. Javascript is 'my thing,' I play about with it between jobs. Shameless self promotion, still some bugs to be worked out of that, but user sortable content is pretty funky.

[elija]

If we are doing selfless self-promotion...
Developed as part of a team Linky (Although it is still in progress)