--- In linux@yahoogroups.com, "amuthan_3920" <amuthan_3920@...> wrote:
>
> I am Amuthan from India. I am doing my Under Graduation on Computer
> Application. I am a strong supporter of open source software. I am
> doing my final year project. My project is "College Website with
> Student Information Administration". Now i am doing this software in
> Visual Web Designer 2008. I want an alternate open source software
> for
> doing my project. Can anybody advise me on this?

My wife and I do web sites for local charities. We have found that
the best software for developing the HTML and CSS files is a good text
editor. On my Linux box I use VIM as my editor.

My suggestion to you is to trash the M$ tools, learn a basic subset of
HTML (just learn it as you need it), and code your web site directly.
For server-side programming I use PERL. If you need to use a
database, most commercial servers support MySQL, with which PERL
interfaces nicely.

You can see a website that I maintain about my hobby efforts at
<home.earthlink.net/~strebendt> -- click on the "Rich's Area" button
to get to my pages. Feel free to view the source for pages that
interest you.

Rich Strebendt