I use both hands and notepad or test wrangler(mac). I'm a relic.:-) Dave
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:31 PM, P. J. Alling<[email protected]> wrote: > Almost no one writes this stuff by hand these days, and CSS is the work of > the Devil. A good code HTML code generator will give you a starting point, > and if you've learned the basics you can take that and modify it to suit > your needs. (Yes, I know, CSS allows you to take full control of the look > and feel of an entire web site, but most people don't need that kind of > capability). > > Christine Aguila wrote: >> >> 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 might get a >> simple index page up. Oh my gosh, am I brain dead. (Aside: as I write >> this, I can hear the most beautiful live xylophone music coming through my >> study window. It's absolutely delightful. Someone is playing in his or her >> backyard somewhere across the alley.) I did, in fact, get something >> written, but oh, is it stinky--and I never did get it just the way I wanted. >> >> 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. >> >> 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! 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. >> >> Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web >> Pages to get something up. >> >> Lastly, to all you Cyber Techie Code Writers who can write this stuff at >> the speed of light, I sincerely tip my hat to you in admiration. Cheers, >> Christine >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > -- > > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or > drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a > damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is > not a free man any more than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > -- > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
