Christine I agree totally with Graydon. Using Notepad to write HTML mark-up is a recipe for the sort of head-banging that you're experiencing.
Grab a HTML editor - they are just text editors with enhancements to make writing HTML easy (I use HTML Kit - free for private use and it has HTML-Tidy built in to find all those typos). If you'd rather not hand-code, try a WYSIWYG editor. Someone here mentioned Komposer a month or two back. I don't use it but I had a quick look at it - seems fine: http://kompozer.net/ And please, please don't use MS Word to produce HTML. It produces masses of bloated text liberally strewn with MS-specific tags. It might produce readable web pages but as browsers become more standards complaint, it might not in the future. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:57 -0400, "Graydon" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:39:35PM -0500, Christine Aguila scripsit: > > Up until 2 days ago I had never written 1 line of html code--not one--for > > any purpose. I have spent the last two days, however, learning about > > html and learning how to write some html code using Notepad so that I > > Couple points; HTML is markup, not code (no loops, no conditionals = not > code :) and writing anything beyond a short shopping list in Notepad is > a recipe for pain. Lots of free HTML editors out there that will tell > you when you've forgotten an angle bracket, etc. > > [snip] > > On the one hand I am a bit proud that I learned to write some > > code--and I learned how to write a css style sheet--and I was > > successful at linking the two, though they didn't link at first, and > > it took me forever to find the typo. I had written *type="test/css"* > > instead of *text*. Ugh! And I got the jpeg to link to where I > > *almost* wanted it, but I never could figure out how to get my little > > two item list to align the way I wanted to. Still, like I said, I'm a > > bit proud of my meager results here. > > This is why specialized HTML editors are a good thing; they'll point out > mistakes like that. > > Or you could go get a copy of tidy -- http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ -- > which will at least find typeaux like that for you. > > > But that's just the problem--oh, how meager the results are! I have > > no problem being a beginner at anything--it's where everyone starts > > when learning something new, but gee wiz, you'd think after 2 days > > I'd be a little further along! > > Why? There's a very large amount of complexity involved, and there are > big, big differences between the server-driven, pro-grade pages and what > you can practically hand-code. Trying to emulate the server-driven > stuff by hand would stymie anyone. > > > Moreover, I started looking at the code for some elegantly simple web > > pages that I admire, and I'm totally intimidated by the complexity of > > the code and feel quite sure it would take me most of the next 12 > > months just to get close to learning this stuff. > > Have you considered looking at http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/ ? That's > probably the single best HTML introduction available. > > > Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web > > Pages to get something up. > > That's a lot like saying your first two tries at making bread produced > patio stones, so you're going to take arsenic now. > > Open Office produces much better HTML than Word -- Word's HTML is > proverbially awful -- so if you want to use a WYSIWIG editor to generate > HTML, it's a better choice. > > But, really, if you want to learn how to do this, get a decent free HTML > editor for your platform of choice, and start chewing through the > w3schools tutorial. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
