I agree with Shel and advice against Netscape Composer. However, most visual editors produce more code than really needed. Microsoft Word and FrontPage are some of the worst examples, but it seems that none are perfect. The real problem with this is, imo, that the code is totally unreadable afterwards. The extra bandwidth they produce is not significant.
To learn the basics of HTML is relatively simple. The number of code words you need to know is probably between 10 and 20. - I still remember my own pleasure of getting started so quickly when I first wrote some HTML in Notepad five years ago. But even though I'm still something of an hardcoding freak, it's definately not necessary to write all the trivia anymore. Just like Shel says. Templates is really a magic word. There are many free/shareware editors out there that lets you work with templates. That's the one feature I would demand of any HTML editor. Among good alternatives CoffeeCup has been mentioned already. My favourite is Allaire Homesite (developed my own site and the AutoPug with it). It has both a code view, a design view, and a built in simple browser. There's also an extensive help file. Good luck. Can't wait to see your "webfolio"...:-) Jostein http://oksne.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I highly recommend against Composer. I've used it, and it produces > messy code with - at least in the version I've used - enough slop and > incompatibility with several browsers to make it, if not useless in some > situations, a poor choice. > I've been playing around writing with writing HTML by hand for a few > months now, and while I'm far from an expert, I believe that learning > code in such a manner, and understanding the differences in browsers and > platforms, will allow for a better final product. > > And for something as simple as putting up a few pages of photographs, > once you've worked through the details to make the code acceptable to > the widest audience - i.e., number of browsers and platforms - the rest > is just like painting by numbers, and, as you said, filling in the > blanks with your preferred images and text. You'll have a great > template and will have learned a useful, if not valuable, skill. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
