Re: OT - Webpage design
 

I teach fellow eye surgeons webpage construction and design. I highly reccomend Homesite 4.01 or 5.

It's a hard-coders friend and only puts in what you want it to. Textpad 4 is okay but is more difficult for occasional Users.

Stay away from WYSINWYG (what you see is never what you get) editors like FrontPage. FP is notorious for putting in spaghetti code that's well-nigh impossible to come back and edit.

Dreamweaver is much better than FP and even has a button to click on to clean out FP's 'garbage cose'. But it's expensive. Homesite is a former Allaire product that has been bundled with DW for ages. MM just purchased Allaire.

There's a freebie HTML editor similar to HS called (I believe) FP2000 (or similar). Check on Tucows.

Don't let the thought of making a webpage in a 'normal' HTML editor scare you off. Once you master the principles and using a 'real' HTML editor, it's not that hard.

I'll be happy to answer email requests for help here (as long as there's not so many as to swamp the boat).

[ September 05, 2002, 16:56: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Re: OT - Webpage design
 

"MM just purchased Allaire"???

What would Malfador want with a web software company? More importantly, how could they afford one? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Do you mean they purchased their software?

Re: OT - Webpage design
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funny man! I meant MacroMedia. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: OT - Webpage design
 

Notepad? Textpad? REAL programmers use vi to create webpages (mainly because real programmers use UNIX http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ).

Seriously, one of my coworkers does ALL his coding in vi, not just HTML stuff; he's been coding for more years than I've been alive...

Re: OT - Webpage design
 

I come from a strong html and Unix background and I saw Dreamweaver all the way.

It does a nice job of making compliant code and has a ton of features that make the most mundane tasks quick and simple. I would highly recommened it. Of course I would say learn html first and code that way before you start witha commercial product.

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Bah! You have to learn binary and script in that! Machine language!
(Yeah right)

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I'll put in another vote for HomeSite. I have to code my stuff by hand--can't stand WYSIWYG editors--but Notepad (or, gods forbid, vi) don't have the usefulness of color-coding which simply makes it easier to figure out what's going on with your code.

This is especially important for what I do, which is a lot of PHP coding. I find that when I'm forced to use Notepad for some reason, distinguishing the PHP from the HTML code becomes tedious. Thankfully, I'm moving toward using templates, which should make even that a bit easier.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">WHOO-HOO! I did some Assembly language programming in college, but I managed to avoid binary & machine language (benefits of being EE instead of CompSci or CompEng http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ).

And now back to your regularly scheduled topic...