Thanks for the suggestions and all around cheer-up, Brian, Paul, & Godfrey.
I'll take a rest and try one of the better whizzy-wigs. Suggestions much
appreciated. Big cheers, Christine
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From: "Brian Walters" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:17 AM
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
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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
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