Yes, Christine - Definitely take a look at Kompozer. It's relatively easy to use in WYSIWYG and it lets you tweak the source if you're so inclined - and it includes a CSS editor. I once made an attempt to do a web page using MSPublisher. After I saw how bloated it was with useless text I threw that idea out the window along with the file(s) I had just created.
-p -----Original Message----- >From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> >Sent: Jul 3, 2009 1:17 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Way OT @ $#*<h1>woman throws in towel on writing code</h1>*#$@ > >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. -- 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.
