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kingjon
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response 14 of 22:
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Mar 5 00:42 UTC 2007 |
Well, as I half-implied in #12, "spiffy" to my mind either a) is synonymous
with "minimalistic" (like the Grex web page if it weren't so cluttered) or b)
isn't a compliment.
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glenda
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response 15 of 22:
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Mar 5 06:58 UTC 2007 |
Re #6: I got the full Macromedia Suite for under $200. Education rates, I
had STeve pick it up for me at the MSU bookstore, but that seemed to be the
normal cost for the education version.
I prefer to do the raw html in either notepad or wordpad, but do use
Dreamweaver when I am going to be do fancier stuff and then edit the code.
I do most of my tables using percentages so that they don't force sideways
scrolling. Dreamweaver wants to make tables and cells fixed pixel widths,
so I have to change them all after I get the basic setup the way I want it.
It has a few other quirks that I usually change as well. I have used other
tools, but prefer Dreamweaver when I go that route.
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remmers
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response 16 of 22:
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Mar 5 18:03 UTC 2007 |
(Continuing with the drift for a bit...)
Re resp:13 and related - It all hinges on the deinition of "spiffy",
which according to answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/spiffy)
means "Smart in appearance or dress; stylish", or in hacker slang, "Said
of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed
interface."
If one's definition of "smart in appearance" means "displaying effects
achievable only with Javascript and Flash" then of course, any spiffy
site would have to use those technologies. But my concept of "smart in
appearance" is broad enough to include sites like The World Wide Web
Consortium (http://www.w3.org), which doesn't use any Javascript or
Flash at all as far as I can tell but which has a nice appearance and an
interface that makes for easy navigation.
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remmers
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response 17 of 22:
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Mar 6 22:34 UTC 2007 |
Re #2: Did some digging into the issue of remote file access in emacs
and found out that the "tramp" package is included as a standard part of
emacs from version 21 on. Basically, if you can do scp (secure copy)
between the machine on which you're running emacs and the remote file,
you're all set. Just open the file in emacs like this:
ctrl-x ctrl-f /user@remote.machine:path-to-file
and tramp will be invoked to make a local copy of the file and display
it in the emacs window. Then just edit the file as you normally would.
Whenever you save the file (e.g. with the ctrl-x ctrl-s command) your
edited version is copied back to the remote machine.
This will be very convenient for me. I can use Aquamacs Emacs (a
version of emacs nicely integrated into the OS X environment) to edit
files on my web host, on Grex, and other places.
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fuzzball
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response 18 of 22:
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Mar 23 15:49 UTC 2007 |
i used to do all my web design in notepad or on a unix box in editors
like PICO....
then i found i had to double check to much stuff, i found a free but
VERY usefull program called SELIDA 2
it sports 2 windows one where you insert the code and such and the top
one is a realtime viewer of what you coded below. very nice for
tweaking and experimenting.
also has some nice pre-made templates and pre inserted code.
download it here: http://selida.camelon.nl/
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h0h0h0
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response 19 of 22:
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Mar 24 02:44 UTC 2007 |
For free options check out the NVU editor. It's free and got a lot of
functionality.
I actually use iWeb with my Mac. Makes me look like an artistic genius!
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madmike
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response 20 of 22:
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Sep 26 00:53 UTC 2008 |
Dreamweaver is the only real choice for sophisticated web design. I use
it for both ASP and PHP dynamic pages. It really simplifies - rather
facilitates - the incorporation of Access Database (ASP) and MySQL
(PHP). While it is not fool proof it is certainly powerfull.
I have also found Cute HTML a fantastic code source editor. It offers
syntax checking and code optimization (Two utilities I would feel lost
without.)
In the LINUX platform I would strongly recommend Quanta+. It offers bou-
coup features and is user friendly. The site management features alone
make it worth adding to the arsenal.
For Text editing I say notepad is handy mainly for holding code
snippets (as a side-kick) but get yourself a free copy of JSoft's
EditPadPro. You get tabbed pages and syntax coloring. And a very slick
find and replace that can work for all open pages (so handy.)
The one bit of software I would be totally lost without is On-Target
Software's Technical Editor 2.65 C.1993. It is a DOS mode ascii editor
with block editing mode that has saved literally hundreds of
programming hours. Every computer I have ever had gets this little
jewel as program one after the OS. Everyone has their own favorite
simple text editor but I tell you, if you cannot BLOCK edit you do not
know what you are missing. TE 2.65 is very hard to get hold of these
days that is why almost every backup disk I ever make contains this APP.
If anyone knows of an HTML editor that does a decent job of CSS I would
love to hear about it. Dreamweaver obviously tries it's heart out, but
to develop standards based pages is a bear! (thank you firefox!)
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mcnally
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response 21 of 22:
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Sep 26 07:44 UTC 2008 |
I'm not sure what you mean by "block edit." Do you mean select and
operate on rectangular regions, or do you mean something else?
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madmike
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response 22 of 22:
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Sep 26 14:39 UTC 2008 |
Right...
Here's a for instance:
suppose you have a file that looks like this
================================
<a href=""></a>
<a href=""></a>
<a href=""></a>
<a href=""></a>
================================
and another file that looks like this
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loca.com
locb.com
locc.com
locd.com
===============================
if you append one file to the other to get...
===============================
<a href=""></a>
<a href=""></a>
<a href=""></a>
<a href=""></a>
loca.com
locb.com
locc.com
locd.com
================================
using BLOCK selection and insertion you can get the following in four
easy steps...
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<a href="loca.com">loca.com</a>
<a href="locb.com">locb.com</a>
<a href="locc.com">locc.com</a>
<a href="locd.com">locd.com</a>
================================
the steps?
1. select block
2. cut block
3. insert block
4. insert block again
Imagine a list of IP addresses that you would like to turn into a page
of links to said IPs. The blank code page can be made in a matter of
moments in line copy and paste mode and the insertion of the blocks of
addresses (no matter how many) is still the four steps.
It is then the job of my 'Code Optimizer' to remove spaces from the
resultant script if nessesary.
You Know... ;)
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