December 14, 200619 yr Does anyone know of one? Some of you know i've made a website, but for it to advance any further i'm going to need something more than Notepad. :P Mainly for text placment, x&y etc. I can do most of the images and slicing on Photoshop anyway. In short, shareware dreamweaver-esque program?
December 14, 200619 yr Editplus is excellent, it won't make you lazy like dreamweaver where you can move things in the 'non-mark-up view', it just allows you to see how a browser would display it. There is a trial version, and you can choose whether or not to buy it after that, it won't just stop working, but it will ask everytime you open it if you don't contribute. http://www.editplus.com/ I believe you can thank Merciful for this because he recommended it here first.. if i'm wrong, sue me.. :P!!
December 15, 200619 yr Heh, before I "invested" in MS Expression Web, I used notpad, helped me to figure out all the code myself :D
December 15, 200619 yr Does anyone know of one? Some of you know i've made a website, but for it to advance any further i'm going to need something more than Notepad. :P Mainly for text placment, x&y etc. I can do most of the images and slicing on Photoshop anyway. In short, shareware dreamweaver-esque program? EditPlus or NotePad++. And to advance futher, all you really need is an editor, a browser to test it in, a lot of trial and error, and patiance.
December 15, 200619 yr Editplus is great, not sure about Notepad++ but you can preview all your changes in a seperate tab as its got its own basic browser built in. You can also get little plugins to add extra coding features to make it even easier for you too. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
December 15, 200619 yr Author Using EditPlus and some HTML tuition now. :) Thanks everyone, EditPlus is waaay better than Notepad.
December 15, 200619 yr I see you already like the EditPlus. You might also want to try TextPad, completely free and very useful for html editing. It highlights all correct tags and attributes, and even allows you to preview the file in a web browser. It's also good for C++ and Java too, if you're interested in that.
December 16, 200619 yr I see you already like the EditPlus. You might also want to try TextPad, completely free and very useful for html editing. It highlights all correct tags and attributes, and even allows you to preview the file in a web browser. It's also good for C++ and Java too, if you're interested in that.EditPlus and Notepad++ cover about 15 languages stock, both with the ability to import language files for other originally unsupported languages :)
December 16, 200619 yr Author I see you already like the EditPlus. You might also want to try TextPad, completely free and very useful for html editing. It highlights all correct tags and attributes, and even allows you to preview the file in a web browser. It's also good for C++ and Java too, if you're interested in that. Sounds pretty much the same as EditPlus. I'm not particularly interested in any other coding except HTML, i'm only just learning that. Let alone anything more demanding. :P (Incase you're wondering, the website doesn't actually have those white lines, EditPlus just makes it look like that.) And oh WOW Freewebs is such a bad host, there's always atleast one image that doesn't load for the website, but all the images are capable of loading. Feel free to check out the website anyway (you can find the link in the coding picture ;)), any HTML advice would be very appreciated.
December 18, 200619 yr :( I'm a failure, can't seem to find the website :s (I'm definetly missing something obvious :oops:)
December 18, 200619 yr :( I'm a failure, can't seem to find the website :s (I'm definetly missing something obvious :oops:)What the hell are you searching for? Number #1 result on Google Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
December 18, 200619 yr Feel free to check out the website anyway (you can find the link in the coding picture ;)) That's the part I couldn't find :wall:
December 18, 200619 yr Author Feel free to check out the website anyway (you can find the link in the coding picture ;)) That's the part I couldn't find :wall: http://www.freewebs.com/strategicprojects ;)
December 18, 200619 yr Your website looks nice, you obviously have good artistic skills (which i don't), but its not very sound technically. You have too many images, and its all done in tables. If you are committed to becoming a good web designer, you should learn CSS at the same time as HTML, and also try to code with the W3C specifications in mind. You are doing well so far, but those would be my next steps. And it is a shame about freewebs, half the time when i refresh it says that it can't find your page. #-o
December 18, 200619 yr Your website looks nice, you obviously have good artistic skills (which i don't), but its not very sound technically. You have too many images, and its all done in tables. If you are committed to becoming a good web designer, you should learn CSS at the same time as HTML, and also try to code with the W3C specifications in mind. You are doing well so far, but those would be my next steps. And it is a shame about freewebs, half the time when i refresh it says that it can't find your page. #-o Agreed. Nested tables load too slowly, and make your entire site "jump around" while loading. Using CSS will solve this, and also give you a "template" you can use for other pages that will share the same design. You are missing a doc-type declaration, which mean browsers will render your pages in quirks mode, rather that standards mode, so don't expect your site to look correct across all browsers, or across browser version upgrades. Validate your html: http://validator.w3.org/. 4.01 strict is fine, XHTML 1.0 is better.
December 18, 200619 yr Author Your website looks nice, you obviously have good artistic skills (which i don't), but its not very sound technically. You have too many images, and its all done in tables. If you are committed to becoming a good web designer, you should learn CSS at the same time as HTML, and also try to code with the W3C specifications in mind. You are doing well so far, but those would be my next steps. And it is a shame about freewebs, half the time when i refresh it says that it can't find your page. #-o Yeah the whole website is in tables because I designed it in photoshop, sliced it and just used the HTML that it produces - which is in tables. And yeah, Freewebs sucks as a host. :P I was planning to use Googlepages, but you have to use their tables. I'd love to learn how to use CSS and such, but i'm really at square one. Once I can get the look of the website right - as in, get all the pages set up as i'd like them too look - I will learn to code it anew and more technically sound.
December 19, 200619 yr http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssadvanced/layout/ Or just google for: css page layout CSS tends to be rendered a lot faster than tables (as some browsers do not render a table until complete). http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web ... _with_css/ And so on - there is a lot of content out there on using / switching to CSS based layout.
December 19, 200619 yr Or you can dis-assesemble CSS-based layouts. A lot quicker and a lot easier to learn the finer details of CSS design than starting at square one.
December 19, 200619 yr 30 day trail of Dreamweaver? Then accidentally ask me for a serial for the full version... Merry Crimbo!Click on my signature to see my NEW blog! Clicky here to see my YouTube videos! http://www.youtube.com/volkswagen99videos
December 19, 200619 yr Then accidentally ask me for a serial for the full version...Be careful what you say... :shame: Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
December 19, 200619 yr Then accidentally ask me for a serial for the full version... DreamWeaver isn't even worth pirating after you have a basic understanding of HTML code. The code it's WYSIWYG side generates is horrendous and the code editor isn't anything special you can't replace with notepadd++ or editplus.
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